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Mark discusses the misleading nature of national rental averages and highlights investment opportunities in the UK rental market.

Become a part of the Progressive Property refer-a-friend scheme and Earn up to £250 when someone attends one of our events – you can enrol here: https://www.progressiveproperty.co.uk/raf/ Right now, in 2026, thousands of landlords are quietly dumping perfectly good properties because a journalist told them - “UK rents have cooled to 3%.” They’re reading a single national average as if it were a buy or sell signal. In the process, sleep‑walking past the best buying conditions they’ve seen in years.   In this episode, Mark shows why that headline is technically true but practically useless if you’re deploying capital. He walks through the real ONS and Rightmove data, explains how London has smashed into an affordability ceiling while the Northeast and Midlands still have headroom, and reveals why asking prices can rise even as real values soften. More importantly, he lays out how sophisticated investors are quietly stepping into those nearly 6% rent inflation regions, structuring around stamp duty, and using inflation to devalue their debt while amateur landlords run for the exits. If you want to take the next step and put what you have learned from this podcast into…

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