A mortgage insurance company has spoken out about the inefficiency of the Help to Buy 2 scheme, and says that it could be used to help thousands more. Genworth, an insurance company, have crunched the numbers and found that the scheme is [...]
The Scottish government has announced that no more applications for the Help to Buy Scotland scheme will be accepted. In the past, Scotland has seen the Help to Buy schemes pulled up short because of a lack of funding, as demand far [...]
Help to Buy has been available in Wales for over a year now, and the figures have been released to chart the progress of the last government's flagship housing scheme. The £170 million scheme works the same as the main Help to [...]
KPMG, one of the largest company of auditors in the world, has said that in general, house purchasing in the UK is unreachable for the majority of first time buyers. Throughout the UK, according to research put together by the company, the [...]
With the completion of another 2,213 Help to Buy sales in March, the total number of homes sold on the scheme now exceeds 47,000. The scheme has been around for two years now, having been instigated in April 2013 to help first [...]
With the upcoming election, one of the major points on everyone's tongues is the issue of housing. Labour have pledged to get rid of stamp duty land tax for first time buyers if they win the election. When buying a home, should [...]
Mortgage lending seems to have seen a slow start to 2015, but the Council of Mortgage Lenders is optimistic that the rate will now be picking up, after a boost over the last few weeks. The gross mortgage lending, according to the [...]
Help to Buy 2 came into play in an attempt to improve on, or offer an alternative to, the first Help to Buy scheme. However, despite the aim of it to be to offer low deposit mortgages, we have seen the average [...]
A top property website, Zoopla, has raised concerns about the future of the UK housing market if Ed Miliband is successful in the general election. This is due to fears that Labour will "kill off" the schemes which have been introduced by [...]
There is worry about the future of people with a Help to Buy mortgage, in case they get excluded from the best remortgage deals and find themselves with little options. Remortgaging a home is a key financial decision that people make in [...]