Talk to many Baldock 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 Baldock for say £22,000 in first quarter of 1977, today it would be worth £418,330, a windfall increase of 1801.5%. To blame the 60 and 70 year olds of Baldock for that sort of rise seems a little unfair, with the value of the homes rising like rocket, I do not believe they can be censured or made liable for that. A few weeks ago, I discussed in my blog the number of people in the Baldock area who have two or more spare bedrooms (meaning they are under-occupying the house). I see many
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