Flats versus Houses. It's an age-old debate, a debate where people get very, very passionate,

and they insist that you must only buy houses or you must only buy flats. You know what,

that you can see why people do get so passionate and fixated, because if you get it wrong,

then yes, you will be punished and yes,

it can become very expensive. So this week, we're going to get into the detail to help you make

the best investments possible and most importantly, avoid the pitfalls.

Welcome to the Property Podcast. Thank you for joining it. In case you don't know, we run a business that puts together more than £100 million worth of property deals every single year.

You can find out about that at property hub.net slash invest. Some of those deals we put together

are houses and some of those deals we put together are flats. And from doing a lot of these deals, from talking to the biggest developers, for talking to the biggest funds,

we've had a front row seat to everything that's happened over the last five, ten years that has

completely changed how people think about these two types of investment. So in this episode,

we'll take you through everything that has changed, what a lot of people are getting wrong

about it and the opportunity it might be creating.

Right, it's time for our news story of the week and this week's new story picked up from

Citi AM, but it's the Chancellor really that's created the headlines. But the headline

of this particular news story is chaos. Now Downing Street rules out rent freeze after backlash over

reckless rumours. And this story comes courtesy, as I've said, from the Chancellor Rachel Reeves,

who fuelled rumours that she was considering rent caps and rent freezes in England after she refused to distance herself from

the policy while speaking in the House of Commons. Where she was asked, would she impose a rent freeze?

And to quote, Rachel Reeve said, I will do everything in my power and use every lever we have to

bear down the cost of living, including for people in the private rented sector.

Now, after multiple stocks got hit off the pack of that comment on the footsy, including

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