You read the personal finance pages of the newspapers and it all seems to be the impending pensions crisis ... where people aren’t saving enough for their retirement. But it’s not the lack of Hitchin peoples’ future pension incomes that are my immediate concern. The fact is that so many of the future retirees in Hitchin over the coming decade, who never bought their home in the Millennial years of the 1990’s and 2000’s, will...
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I was recently reading a report by Rightmove that a North South Divide has started to appear in the UK property market – so I wanted to see if Hitchin was falling in line with those thoughts. In the North, there are 7.12% less properties on the market than 12 months ago, whilst in contrast, in the South, there are 14.7% more properties on the market than 12 months ago. With the decline in the...
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The Hitchin housing market is a fascinating beast and has been particularly interesting since the Credit Crunch of 2008/9 with the subsequent property market crash. There is currently some talk of a ‘property bubble’ nationally as Brexit seems to be the ‘go-to’ excuse for every issue in the Country. Upon saying that, looking at both what we do as an agent, and chatting with my fellow property professionals in Hitchin, the market has certainly changed...
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