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The Property Podcast

TPP360: The 7 questions Rob & Rob get asked the most

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

Business News, News, Business, Education, Investing

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you have questions for Rob & Rob? Well, you're in luck. Today’s episode of The Property Podcast is full of answers that every investor is eager to know. As you can imagine, Rob & Rob get asked thousands of questions, but in particular there are seven questions that always come up.  In today's episode, you’re in for a treat as The Robs answer their most commonly asked questions...  Who are Rob & Rob?  How many properties do they own?  Where is the best place to invest right now?  Where are we in the 18 year property cycle? Houses or flats?  You’ll have to listen to find out the rest…   The Robs go into a whole lot of detail around the questions, so listen and take note, they may be answering a question you’ve been dying to know.  They’re also talking about some exciting news too. Hometrack has released their quarterly figures for the rental market.  What’s has caught our eye?  Well, rents have increased over the last year by 2.6% which is clearly good news for investors. Rents are going up, but they’re also becoming more affordable - which is great news for tenants. Where is the rental growth happening? The top three cities are York, Bristol and Nottingham - listen as Rob & Rob give you their thoughts on this growth and what you should be taking from these insights.    In other news, we’re still pushing on to hit that magic 10K followers/subscribers on Instagram and YouTube! We’ve said that when we reach it we’re going to be releasing this bloopers video! So make sure you go to our YouTube channel and subscribe, and go give us a follow on Instagram and we’ll announce when we’ve hit 10K.   This week’s Hub Extra is something small, but makes your day so much easier. Apple Pay and Google Pay.  A fair few people haven’t adapted to it yet, but it definitely makes your day run that little bit smoother, whether you're on a train, grabbing a coffee or paying for your weekly big shop, it’s just that little life hack that can make a small improvement to your day. You can even load all your different cards on there!  It’s just a little something that removes a little bit of friction; leaving your card at home but still being able to process those little payments. Rob & Rob have only just started using this and they both love it!    We’d love to hear what you think of this week’s Property Podcast over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You might even have a topic you’d like us to cover in the future - if so, pop us a message on social and we’ll see what we can do.   Make sure you’ve liked and subscribed to our YouTube channel where we upload new content every week! If that wasn’t enough, you can also join our friendly property community on the Property Hub forum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Robert I over the years have been asked probably thousands of questions.

0:06.5

You know we've got a podcast on just answering questions, but there are seven that

0:15.0

answered the seven questions that you most crave investors come to be informed and inspired.

0:30.4

Today we are answering those most common seven questions.

0:33.7

So chances are you've been wondering at least one of these.

0:36.7

We are going to give you the answers in just a second.

0:39.5

And stick around to the end, because in Hub Extra, we've got something that's going to make spending money

0:43.4

a little bit more painless.

0:45.9

So it's time for our news story of the week and Rob you've been geeking out because

0:50.6

Home Track have released a quarter four figures for 2019 on the state of the rental market and there's lots to look at here

0:57.2

What's caught your eye? I don't even know where to start. Yeah, there's so much in here. So we'll link to the original article in the show notes so you can go and

1:04.6

look at it for yourself but I'm going to try to give you three main takeaways right now.

1:08.9

Take away number one rents that up over the last year by 2.6% which clearly is good news for investors but there's good

1:16.2

news for people who are renting as well because that 2.6% is lower than the

1:21.2

average earnings growth over the last year which is 3.8% so rents are

1:25.7

going up but they're actually becoming more affordable which is interesting.

1:29.2

The second takeaway is about where that rental growth is happening. So the three top cities for rental growth

1:34.8

are York, Bristol and Nottingham, all of which have seen rental increases of over 5% in the

1:40.8

last year, which is really quite amazing and shows how strong demand is in those cities.

1:46.0

Rents have actually fallen in three cities as well, which are Coventry, Middlesbrough and Aberdeen.

1:51.0

So sorry, Rob your Aberdeen prediction is looking a bit

1:54.3

ropy right now. I know that's rentals but it doesn't bow well for capital growth.

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