Summary
A 2017 Property Geek podcast episode where Akhil Patel appears as a guest to explain the 18-year property cycle. The web page retrieved contains a partial summary: what drives the cycle and why it’s been enduring for hundreds of years, where the cycle was at that time (2017), how demand drives the cycle, stock market/property interactions, and how to act approaching the peak.
Key Claims
- Akhil Patel described as “one of the world’s leading experts on the property cycle” by the host — confidence: medium [Source: Property Geek, 2017]
- Key topics covered: what drives the cycle, dangers of listening to media/emotion, where in the cycle listeners were (2017), demand as the driver, stock market/property interaction — confidence: high [Source: Property Geek, 2017]
- Patel’s website at the time: theascendantstrategy.com — later evolved into PSE (Property Sharemarket Economics) — confidence: high [Source: Property Geek, 2017]
- The podcast episode drove popular awareness of Patel and the 18-year cycle in UK property investor circles — confidence: high [Source: secondary context]
Notes
Full audio content available at the URL. The retrieved web text only contains a show-notes summary. Patel’s 2017 cycle analysis would have placed the UK in mid-cycle expansion (approximately 2017 = year 5 of the post-2012 recovery phase).