Have the Baby Boomers (people between the ages of 55yo to 75yo) messed things up for the Millennials in terms of getting on the Hounslow property ladder?
Month: January 2020
How is the “Exodus” of Eastern Europeans Affecting the Hounslow Property Market?
I was having a thought-provoking conversation with a Hounslow buy-to-let landlord a few weeks ago about everything to do with property, Brexit and how the reported voluntary repatriation of Eastern Europeans had affected the property […]
The £1.1 billion mortgage debt of Hounslow homeowners
Irrespective of the shenanigans and political goings on in Westminster recently, the housing market (for the time being anyway) shows a striking resilience, fostered by the on-going wide-ranging monetary policy by the Bank of England. With […]
117,205 People Live in Rented Accommodation in Hounslow
That number surprised you didn’t it? With the General Election done, I thought its 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 norm). Yet in the latter part of the 1920’s, builders of the suburban housing estates with their bay fronted semis started to sell the dream of home ownership to smart renters.