Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said the government's Help to Buy scheme will make it harder for first-time buyers to get onto the property ladder. In a speech at the Labour party conference in Brighton, Mr Balls called on the coalition to [...]
Estate agents across the country have rejected concerns related to the government's flagship Help to Buy programme. Speaking to the Financial Times, a number of realtors across the country said headlines of a housing bubble were premature and had led to people [...]
Chancellor George Osborne has rallied in favour of Help to Buy mortgages - the coalition's flagship housing policy. The popular funding for lending scheme announced earlier this year by the government has been hit by a number of criticisms from Liberal Democrat [...]
Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has private reservations about the coalition's Help to Buy Scheme. Sources close to the politician told Sky News that he thinks it might inflate the housing market so much that it will cause [...]
Although some have criticised the government's new Help to Buy scheme for inflating the housing market, Lloyd's Banking Group's chief Antonio Horta-Osorio has defended the project. Lloyds TSB is currently 38 per cent owned by the taxpayer after it was bailed out [...]
The UK's chief financial secretary to the treasury Greg Clark has backed the coalition's flagship Help to Buy scheme. In a blog post on Conservative Home, the Tunbridge Wells MP argued that the programme is simply a spiritual successor to Margaret Thatcher's [...]
The Adam Smith Institute, a libertarian think tank in favour of a free market economy, has criticised the government's Help to Buy scheme. Officials at the political consultancy body argue that the price of housing in the UK is currently substantially above [...]
Mansfield Building Society (MBS) is the latest financial institution to offer customers a Help to Buy product, as the market grows. The mutual is offering a three-year variable rate mortgage starting at a discounted rate of 3.49 per cent, which will then [...]
People in Bury will have the chance to buy cut-price new homes in the town after Persimmon announced a new scheme to allow locals to get a discount on developments. The housebuilder, which has been significantly boosted by the government's Help to [...]
New figures leaked to the Financial Times (FT) have shown that the Midlands is the region with the most demand for Help to Buy products. The Midlands is a hub of manufacturing and production in the UK and these sectors have seen [...]