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The Property Podcast

TPP545: The worst time to invest?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Education, Business, Investing, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What would’ve happened if you invested in property at the absolute worst times to buy?  (0:54) News story of the week  (2:51) Property Hub Select meet-up  (5:44) What would have happened if you bought in the 2007 crash?  (8:35) What would have happened if you bought in the 1990 recession?  (10:38) When was a bad time to buy during these crashes?  (14:37) How do you know when we’re close to the winners curse?  (15:36) Is now the worst time to buy?  (18:26) Lets run the numbers  (22:39) Hub Extra  Enjoy the show?  Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts - it really helps others find us!  Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, Property Pulse  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Robby here with RobD and today we are going to answer the question.

0:08.6

What would happen if you bought property at the absolute worst time?

0:13.6

People are always nervous about are they buying at the right time?

0:16.6

But let's go back in history and look at what would happen if you actually did buy at

0:21.7

the worst time.

0:23.1

And numbers are crazy.

0:30.8

Yes, welcome to the Property Podcast.

0:32.4

Thank you for joining us.

0:34.0

Even though property is what we do for a living.

0:36.2

We do it all day every day.

0:37.6

We still come across some numbers and data that really surprises and get us thinking

0:41.9

about property in a whole new way when we're researching these episodes.

0:45.2

If you've ever had any doubts about whether it's a good time to be investing

0:48.8

in property, you're nervous about investing at the wrong time.

0:51.6

You will definitely want to stick around.

0:54.4

So it's time for our new story of the week and the headline reads epic fail rents go

1:00.2

up in Scotland despite government rent controls.

1:03.8

Now, you may be thinking where I originally thought how can rents go up when you have

1:09.2

rental controls and we've reported quite a bit on this podcast how rent controls haven't

1:14.4

really been working in Scotland and they probably then therefore won't be introduced

1:18.3

into England and Wales because of how poorly it's gone.

1:22.6

But Rob, this is just further evidence that rent caps don't work.

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