{"podcast":{"title":"Letting & Estate Agent Podcast","slug":"letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704","podcast_index_feed_id":2704,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:138937602/sounds.rss","website_url":"http://how-to-grow-your-lettings-agency.blogspot.co.uk/","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000472495671-spokph-original.jpg","author":"Christopher Watkin","episode_count":500,"summary":"The Letting & Estate Agents Podcast Having worke…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704"},"episode":{"title":"UK Property Market Stats Show - Week 17 2026 - Ep.2539","slug":"uk-property-market-stats-show-week-17-2026-ep-2539","published_at":"2026-05-08T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704/uk-property-market-stats-show-week-17-2026-ep-2539","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704","url":"https://soundcloud.com/christopher-watkin/uk-property-market-516471608","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2316414086-christopher-watkin-uk-property-market-516471608.mp3","summary":"UK Property Market Weekly Update for Week 17 2026 🟩 Gross Residential Sales YTD 422k UK homes sold STC YTD The best week for Resi sales in 45 weeks 5.3% lower than 2025 YTD (445k) , 4.2% higher than 2024 YTD (405k), 14.6% higher than 2023 YTD (368k) and 12.5% higher above pre Covid norms (375k). 🟩 Net Resi Sales YTD 330k UK net home sales YTD (Net Sales being Gross sales less Fall Thrus). 3.1% lower than 2025 (341k), 3.9% ahead of 2024 (318k), 16.3% ahead of 2023 (284k) and 9.4% above the 2017–19 average (302k). 🟩 Listings YTD 637k new properties have come onto the market YTD 1% above of 2025 YTD, 7.4% above 2024 YTD, and 17.5% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD 🟩 Exchanges YTD 240k UK Exchanges to the 2nd week of April 2026 14% lower the 2nd week of April 2026, when it was 279k. Note - There were more exchanges in Q1 2025 because of the stamp duty holiday which finished in April 2025 🟩 Overvaluing 46.7% of the homes that left UK Estate Agents books in April were withdrawn unsold. Main cause - blatant overvaluing supported by long sole agency agreements of 20+ weeks. ✅ The YouTube Show The YouTube ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’ for the week ending Sunday, 3rd May 2026 (week 17 with Iain McKenzie. https://youtu.be/43DhsM7TDWA","meta_description":"UK Property Market Weekly Update for Week 17 2026 🟩 Gross Residential Sales YTD 422k UK homes sold STC YTD The best week for Resi sales in 45 weeks 5.3% l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3545,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704/episodes/uk-property-market-stats-show-week-17-2026-ep-2539/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704/uk-property-market-stats-show-week-17-2026-ep-2539.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}