{"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 18 2026 - Ep.2545","slug":"uk-property-market-stats-show-week-18-2026-ep-2545","published_at":"2026-05-15T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704/uk-property-market-stats-show-week-18-2026-ep-2545","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letting-estate-agent-podcast-2704","url":"https://soundcloud.com/christopher-watkin/uk-property-market-921876456","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2320040177-christopher-watkin-uk-property-market-921876456.mp3","summary":"UK Property Market Weekly Update for Week 18 2026 Headline - Everything in the UK Property market moving along quite nice despite all the **** hitting the fan at home and abroad Headline Scores on the Doors … 🟩 UK Gross Resi Sales 444k UK homes sold STC YTD 5.2% lower than 2025 YTD (445k) 2.8% higher than 2024 YTD (468k), 13.8% higher than 2023 YTD (390k) 13.8% higher above pre Covid 2017-19 years (399k). 🟩 UK Net Resi Sales YTD 348k UK net home sales YTD 3.1% lower than 2025 (341k), 3.9% ahead of 2024 (318k), 16.3% ahead of 2023 (284k) 9.4% above the 2017–19 average (302k). (Net Sales being Gross sales less Fall Thrus). 🟩 Listings YTD 671k new properties (listings) have come onto the market YTD 0.9% ahead of 2025 YTD (665k) 5.8% ahead of 2024 YTD (634k) 16.1% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD (577k) 🟩 Exchanges YTD 281k UK Exchanges to the end of April 2026 10.5% lower than Jan to April 2026, when it was 314k. Note - There were more exchanges in Q1 2025 because of the stamp duty holiday which finished in April 2025 🟩 Overvaluing 46.1% of the homes that left UK Estate Agents books in April were withdrawn unsold.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, 10th May 2026 (week 18 with Alice Bullard https://youtu.be/UriCggG8pYk","meta_description":"UK Property Market Weekly Update for Week 18 2026 Headline - Everything in the UK Property market moving along quite nice despite all the **** hitting the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4051,"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-18-2026-ep-2545/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-18-2026-ep-2545.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}