Despite Government regulations that have been in place since the 26 March 2020, where face-to-face viewings were made illegal, Hitchin buy to let landlords have during that time been chomping at the bit to build their property empire by looking at buying additional properties for their Hitchin buy to let portfolio. There are plenty of investors who think nothing of legally committing to buying a property ‘off plan’ before it’s built – yet over the last...
continue readingAn immediate fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic is that it has placed many Hitchin families house moves on hold. Government guidelines state all home buyers and home sellers who are in the process of selling their Hitchin home and moving to a new home must adapt to these temporary arrangements, adjusting their usual practices, agreeing different dates to the house move after the removal of the stay at home actions we are all adopting. In...
continue readingBefore the Covid-19 pandemic hit, 1,814 Hitchin people worked mainly from home, or about 10.2% of Hitchin’s 17,857 workforce (compared to the national average of 14.9%). Yet over the last few weeks many hundreds, even thousands more Hitchin workers have joined them in their spare rooms or at their kitchen or dining room tables. Amongst warnings from the Government that some lockdown constraints could stay in place into 2021, businesses are dealing with an unexpected cultural...
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