The value of an average Hitchin semi-detached house has increased in value by £57,426 in the last 12 months, an increase in value of 13.4%. Yet the costs of building a Hitchin home have shot up even more in the last 12 months, meaning the price of Hitchin new homes and any building works you do to your Hitchin home in the coming months and years could be a lot higher. The British house building profession is...
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Investing in property has historically been a sound investment, yet alternative investments (like Cryptocurrency) have been gaining traction over the last five years. So, should we all ditch buying our own home and buy Bitcoin? Cryptocurrency with such names as Bitcoin and Ethereum are being bandied about as the new investment vehicle everyone should be investing in. But is Crypto a sound investment or just an ‘end of the seaside pier one arm bandit’ speculation? Well to...
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Iknow of many Hitchin buy-to-let landlords who fell into property investing by accident. Many didn’t want to sell their family home when the Hitchin housing market crashed in the Credit Crunch of 2009/10, yet still needed to move (often for work). They thought they would keep their Hitchin family home in case they ever moved back to Hitchin. Yet by keeping it, it couldn’t remain empty (there was still a mortgage to pay on it),...
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