Hey everyone it's Rob B with Rob D

And let's do it. It's time to review our predictions for this year after how this year has panned out I'm terrified.

Welcome to the property podcast.

This is the show where we try to pass on some of what we've learned

from spending all day every day with our team immersed in the world of property, advising

a fund, putting together hundreds of deals a year. And this is the show where we find out if that actually counts for anything

Does doing this for a living mean we have any ability to predict what's going to happen in the year ahead you're about to find out and it may not be pretty

Right it's time for our news story of the week and it's good news. Yes, it's getting close to Christmas. So we've got to bring you good news, right?

And this one may be a surprise for many, but property prices are up again, keyword again,

according to Halifax. What have we got?

Yes, as we reported on last week's market update nationwide showing house prices rising two months in a row now,

Halifax data has come out since then showing the same thing. The two main indices were

showing different data from each other earlier this year,

but now they've converged again. So Halifax is showing the house prices up half a percent in November,

meaning that by their index, property prices have fallen by just 1% on an annual basis.

Now we're going to be going into our predictions in a minute.

We always use nationwide to judge our predictions against that.

But Halifax always interesting to keep an eye on as well. But what has all this been for next year?

Does this mean that the crash that was meant to happen didn't happen and never will? Or is it just going to be late?

Well unfortunately we're going to have to take a stab at that in our predictions episode next year,

and in our first episode back in January, we're going to be joined by some experts from across

the industry giving their predictions.

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