For much of the last two decades, bungalows have quietly slipped out of fashion. Overshadowed by those glossy new build developments, three storey townhouses and open plan ‘modern living’, they became seen by many as somewhere only your granny lives rather than an aspirational home move.

As an agent in the Ruislip property market, I believe it is important to offer local homeowners a balanced and realistic view of both the Ruislip and national property markets.

There is a quiet unspoken problem sitting inside the Stevenage property market.

Young people have been locked out of homeownership. Deposits are impossible to save. Mortgage rules are too strict. And ‘Generation Rent’ is now permanent. According to the narrative by the newspapers, younger generation homeownership has collapsed.