Buying and selling a home in Hitchin isn’t the easiest or cheapest thing you will ever do. Estate Agent fees, Solicitors fees, Survey fees, Mortgage fees, Removal Van … the costs just mount up throughout every step of the move. Last week, a Hitchin landlord asked me whether the Council Tax Band made a difference to a property’s appeal, be it tenanted or to owner occupiers, when it comes to being sold on the open...
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A little bit of good news this week on the Hitchin Property Market as recently released data shows that the number of first time buyers taking out their first mortgage in 2017 increased more than in any other year since the global financial crisis in 2009. The data shows there were 255 first time buyers in Hitchin, the largest number since 2006. I expect in 2018 that this increase of first time buyers will level out...
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The degree to which young Hitchin people are locked out of the Hitchin housing market has been revealed in new statistics. A Hitchin landlord was asking me the other week to what effect homeownership rates in Hitchin in the early to middle aged adult age range had affected the demand for rental property in Hitchin since the Millennium. I knew anecdotally that it affected the Hitchin rental market, but I wanted some cold hard numbers to...
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