The stamp duty holiday is over, furlough finished at the end of September, unemployment is due to rise and inflation is rife … is this the end of the post lockdown Hitchin property boom? Surely, we are heading for house price correction? Forecasting what will happen in the Hitchin property market this autumn may not be as simple as it first appears. It’s true the Hitchin property market is starting to settle down after an all-time number of...
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as 113.3% more people sell in June compared to the Hitchin area 10-year average. June 2021 was the busiest month ever for UK estate agents, home removal companies and conveyancers since monthly records began as HMRC logged 213,120 residential transactions in June, a jump of more than 216% nationally on the same month last year (when the housing market had just reopened after the initial lockdown). The cause of this was all the homebuyers trying to complete...
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The semi-detached house – the icon of middle-class aspiration, the pinnacle of liberalism yet at the same time compromised individuality, the ‘semi’ as it is colloquially termed is, for many Hitchin homeowners, the highpoint of modern domestic bliss. Britain’s gift to architecture is the humble ‘Semi-Detached House’. This type of property has been exported around the world with - the ‘Doppel Haus’ in Germany, the ‘Duplex’ in the USA, Canada and Australia For those young, hip and...
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