Hey everyone. It's Robby here with Rob D and you are listening to the

Property Podcast and this week we get a bit feisty because we debate on the

services that we believe you should pay for but but where it gets really interesting, is where we debate

on what's not worth paying for. Thank you for joining it. If you don't know, we've got a

company called Property Hub Invest that bought over 100 million pounds worth of property

last year for our clients. You can find out more about that at

Property Hub.net slash Invest. But before we debate what is and isn't worth paying for, let's

get into the news this week. Two stories this week. The first one Rob, If you remember back to the start of the year,

the narrative was very much house prices falling this year by somewhere around 4%. That seemed to be the consensus.

That narrative might be falling apart.

Well, Rob, when you read headlines like the house price charts that show why now is the time

to buy property in the telegraph, you could be forgiven for thinking, you know, things have changed.

I can't remember seeing a headline in a major paper so positive on property for a few years now.

I don't know if that's a good thing, which we'll come to, but let's look at what's being said so there's a load of

charts showing that property prices have started to stabilize or even started to grow now

depending on what index you look at but what's most interesting is that people have started to change their tune.

So in this article it talks about different experts who are now saying that property prices in the UK should rise in 2024 which you could say

well fair enough that's what we've been saying on a podcast so I can't others say

well those same experts actually predicted falls this year, not that long ago either.

Remember, we are only in April, and a few months ago,

Savals said that property prices would fall by 3% this year.

Now in this article they haven't put their new number in because that would be a little

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