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The Conservative Party’s General Election manifesto has committed to resurrecting the Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme and temporarily removing Capital...

It's emerged that Homes England and HMRC have explored possible fraud within the Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme. This formed part of...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

A mortgage expert has expressed concern about the level of borrowers still taking out high loan-to-value government-backed home loans despite falling...

The end of the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme coupled with rising mortgage rates and affordability requirements will mean fewer...

In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender for first-time buyers launched this year, provides commentary on the end...

Buyers have until 31 October to reserve a new-build and apply for Government-backed finance before the government’s Help to Buy Equity...

With UK interest rates on the rise, following the mini-Budget announcement (now since almost entirely reversed), and several lenders pulling mortgage...

A housebuilding-led mortgage indemnity scheme called Deposit Unlock has now been launched nationally with 17 major developers taking part. Nationwide is the...

Over 55,000 households bought homes through the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme in the past financial year - a...

New research from Zoopla appears to show that buyers typically move further away for larger homes rather than smaller or same-size...

A new analysis claims Help To Buy has improved building volumes and has not been a drain on taxpayers. The scheme which...

Nationwide Building Society is to become the largest mortgage provider to reintroduce 95 per cent Loan-to-Value home loans without government support.  These...

Over 300,000 new-builds in England have been purchased using the government's Help to Buy Equity Loan since its launch in 2013. Of the...

The Chancellor is considering extending the stamp duty holiday for a short period according to a newspaper report this morning. The Daily...

The stamp duty holiday should be extended to include properties that have exchanged but have yet to complete, a leading accountancy...

The government has revealed new regional price caps for its revamped Help To Buy Equity Loan scheme, set to operate between...

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

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New research has identified those local housing market potentially worst hit by the planned changes to Help To Buy in 2021,...

Demand for shared ownership properties will rise by over 15,000 units a year when Help To Buy comes to an end...

Data produced by the government showed that some 211,000 homes have been bought using the Help to Buy: Equity Loan. The scheme...

First time buyers purchasing new homes using the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme paid on average 12 per cent...

The row over whether Help To Buy benefits house builders’ personal wealth more than it assists the housing market is continuing...

Figures released by the government over the weekend show that 14,867 Help To Buy equity loans were taken out in the...

Consumer body Which? is warning that those who used the Help To Buy equity loan to purchase their homes could face...

The residential research associate director of Cushman & Wakefield says there is now evidence that the Help to Buy equity loan...

There has been general support from the industry for the government’s apparent intention to ban new homes in England being sold...

Government schemes like Help To Buy, supposedly assisting more people get on the ladder, have little impact on improving social mobility...

The government claims 43 per cent of new homes built since the introduction of the Help to Buy equity loan scheme...

Help to Buy’s equity loan and mortgage guarantee schemes have helped nearly 120,000 people buy a home, according to government figures.  Since...

The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...