10,005 People Live in Rented Accommodation in Hitchin

Posted 15th December 2019 at 15:22

That number surprised you didn’t it? With the General Election done, I thought it time to reflect on renting in the manifestos and party-political broadcasts and ask why? As the best way to tell the future is to look at to the past, so we decided to look at the number of people who rented a century ago (1920’s), and surprisingly 76% of people rented their home in the UK (as renting then was considered the...

Are the Tory’s Selling Off the Final Part of the Family Silver? 1,347 Hitchin Housing Association Households & the Right to Buy Their Homes

Posted 21st November 2019 at 15:17

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher was voted in on a Tory landslide with the ‘right to buy your own council house’ being a mainstay of Conservative policy. She encouraged people to buy their own their own council flats and houses, although it might interest you to know, that the council tenant right to buy idea was first proposed in the late 1950s and formed part of the manifesto of the Labour party. Yet Maggie’s version was...

How long is an average Hitchin property on the market for?

Posted 2nd October 2019 at 15:12

If you are either selling or buying a property in Hitchin, there are a few reasons why it may be taking some time to sell your Hitchin home or find that perfect place to call your new home. It may be taking longer than you thought to find a buyer for your home because of the current state of the property market or finding that perfect Hitchin home may be taking too long because of...