diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/packages/rte/components/rte-base.element.ts b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/packages/rte/components/rte-base.element.ts
index 1d45e10605..9e4c70c5c3 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/packages/rte/components/rte-base.element.ts
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/packages/rte/components/rte-base.element.ts
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ export abstract class UmbPropertyEditorUiRteElementBase extends UmbLitElement im
 
 					// If we don't have a value set from the outside or an internal value, we don't want to set the value.
 					// This is added to prevent the block list from setting an empty value on startup.
-					if (!this._latestMarkup && !this._value?.markup) {
+					if (this._value?.markup === undefined) {
 						return;
 					}