Talk to many Hitchin 20 something’s, where home ownership has looked but a vague dream, many of them have been vexatious towards the Baby Boomer generation and their pushover ‘easy go lucky’ walk through life; jealous of their free university education with grants, their eye watering property windfalls, their golden final salary pensions and their free bus passes. If you had bought a property in Hitchin for say £21,000 in first quarter of 1977, today it...
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My research shows that certain types of Hitchin property are more affordable today than before the 2007 credit crunch. Roll the clock back to 2007 just before the credit crunch hit which saw Hitchin property values plummet like a lead balloon and the Hitchin property market had reached a peak with the prices for Hitchin property hitting the highest level they had ever reached. Between 2008 and 2010, Hitchin property values lay in the doldrums...
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Well the fallout from the recent Budget is still continuing. I was chatting to a couple of movers and shakers from the Hitchin area the other day, when one said, “There isn’t enough land to build all these 300,000 houses Philip Hammond wants to build each year.” . ...and if you read the Daily Mail, you would be forgiven for thinking the Country was at bursting point ... or is it? It was 60 years...
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