Hey everyone, it's Robby here with RobD and you are listening to the property podcast.

Now it's time to take stock of what's happened so far in the year.

We need to look at what's happened with house prices, inflation, interest rates and more.

And once we've done that, we'll also look forward to the rest of the year and help you

navigate this wonderful world of property.

So a super useful episode is coming up.

Welcome to the property podcast where every Thursday morning we take time out from advising

a multimillion pound property fund and putting together hundreds of deals for our clients

and bring you some of what we've learned along the way for free.

This week we're reflecting on the year so far and sharing our views of what's yet to come.

I think you'll find it really valuable and do make sure you stick around to the end because

we're sharing a resource that could make your travel a whole lot easier.

Onto our news story this week and this week's news is a lack of news.

More specifically a lack of news about the renters reform bill which appears to have

ground to a bit of a halt when the bill was introduced to the House of Commons earlier

this year after years of delay originally it was meant to have its second reading,

which is the next stage the following day and it looked like the government wanted to

really ram it through quickly, but that ended up being postponed and now with the summer

break looming it looks like that second reading isn't going to happen until the autumn.

So given that there's a lengthy parliamentary process to go through after that and that

when that's happened there's going to be a delay before it can be implemented.

We could be looking at quite a while before the measures in this bill actually become

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