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Help-to-buy scheme

June 2024

  • A 3D graphic of a crumpled and torn illustration of a new-build house

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How a disastrous Tory policy blew up the housing market

    George Osborne’s help to buy cost billions, pushed up prices, did almost nothing for new buyers – but made house builders a lot of money

September 2023

  • A woman scratches her head looking into an estate agent's window, where a banner advertising the help to buy scheme is prominently visible

    Help-to-buy delays leave borrowers unable to sell or remortgage and paying more

    Since Homes England switched contractors, borrowers have been struggling to obtain vital documents

August 2023

  • A Bellway housing development site in Dunstable, 2020.

    Bellway cuts jobs in anticipation of UK property market slowdown

  • a help to buy sticker in an estate agent window

    Help-to-buy paperwork delays still endangering property sales and remortgages

July 2023

  • a barratt development

    Profits at UK homebuilder Barratt drop as buyer demand slumps

    Soaring interest rates and end of help-to-buy scheme blamed for driving away first-time buyers
  • People looking in an estate agents windows in Ely, Cambridgeshire

    UK homeowners in limbo as help to buy firm won’t answer phone

    Frustrated borrowers unable to sell or remortgage as company running loan scheme leaves them on hold
  • Promising a dream that for one flat buyer has turned into a nightmare.

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Help to buy has trapped me in an unsellable cladded flat

    My block failed a fire safety inspection after Grenfell, but the scheme won’t allow me to buy a second property

March 2023

  • Persimmon homes

    Ousted Persimmon boss sets up new venture with his wife

    Exclusive: Jeff Fairburn, who was forced to leave housebuilder after outrage at £82m bonus, registers ‘credit granting’ business

December 2022

  • A row of houses in Porthmadog.

    We can’t build our way out of the growing housing crisis

  • Identical English terraced houses in Crouch End, London

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Should our savings go towards the help-to-buy loan or overpaying a new mortgage?

September 2022

  • Castlefield Basin, Manchester, England. Area around the Wharf on the Bridgewater canal with apartment blocks behind.

    Help to buy or shared ownership: which is best for homebuyers in England?

    The government schemes have pros and cons, and one closes to new applicants soon

July 2022

  • Help to Buy sign. Manchester, UK

    Help to buy scheme: the clock is ticking if you want to apply

    The scheme is scheduled to end in England in March 2023 but the key deadline is much sooner

June 2022

  • Sonia Sodha

    The ugly truth behind our rigged housing system – politicians live in fear of owners

    Sonia Sodha
    The latest help-to-buy scheme will do little but fuel the rising prices that ministers bank on

May 2022

  • Couple looking at display of advertisements in estate agent

    First-time buyers using help-to-buy scheme must reserve property by end of October

    New homeowners face deadline two months earlier to access government-backed equity loan

March 2022

  • Persimmon signs at a building site in Durham, England.

    UK’s biggest housebuilders hand top bosses bumper bonuses

  • Converted Victorian hospital, the 1840, St George’s Gardens

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes with help to buy for sale – in pictures

January 2022

  • New housing development at Great Kneighton Trumpington Cambridge

    Average UK first-time buyer is now older than 30, says Halifax

    Average age is highest in London, at 33, as numbers rise at record rate despite surging house prices

October 2021

  • A new-build house

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    My house has gained £30,000 in value. Should I realise that capital and move north?

  • to let signs

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    We want to buy our first home and then move abroad. Is this possible?

July 2021

  • Board outside a house for sale in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

    With house prices through the roof, young buyers’ hopes go out the window

    Phillip Inman
    But with government more keen on avoiding a crash than addressing inequality, property prices look safe
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