Hey everyone, Rob B here with Rob D and you are listening to the Property Podcast.

This week we're moving into dangerous territory.

We're going to be discussing politics and looking at should you be fearful of a potential labour government. Welcome to the Property Podcast. Thank you for joining it. In case you don't know, we run a business that

pays over a hundred million pounds worth of property for our clients each year. You can

find out about that at Property Hub. Net. Invest. But today, yes, of course, Ritchie caught us on a hop.

We weren't expecting to be here talking about an election in June, but we are and we've got thoughts.

It's time for our news stories of the week and we will have a bumper episode next week when we bring you our market update for June

Lots to cover there but let's keep you up to date with what's happening now and house prices are up again.

And we have the figures out from nationwide and prices are up month

for the month of May by 0.4%.

A reminder of what happened in April, it fell by 0.4%. A reminder of what happened in April? It fell by 0.4%. So we've evened out the last two months.

What's interesting now, it's house prices are up overall.

So we're about 1.2% up for the year so far. So we saw a rise in January, a rise in

February, a slight fall in March, a slightly bigger fall in April, and then May

cancelling out April's numbers. So up by 1.2 percent but that's only for five months of the year

and that is already better than what most people had predicted would happen this year.

Of course we've got a lot of year left and a lot could change, but that's fairly solid numbers and as we talked about on the podcast before, sensible and solid growth is what we're all about.

The market's not manic, but it's stable,

and you can do good deals in this environment.

So long may this slow, steady, and slightly boring growth continue.

Yeah, absolutely.

And it's all lining up a bit more again now

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