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The number of properties purchased using a Help to Buy ISA-backed deposit fell to record lows last year, official data shows. Government...

The number of homebuyers putting a Help to Buy Isa towards their property purchase looks set to hit a five-year low. The...

Rising house prices have rendered the government’s Help to Buy ISA scheme useless, an analyst claims. The Help to Buy ISA saving...

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

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

I often speak of my wish to see property taken out of the hands of politicians. Indeed, this is likely to...

More than 420,000 people have now used the government’s Help to Buy schemes to get themselves on to the housing ladder...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

Figures released by the government suggest that over 285,000 people, including 240,000 first time buyers, have used one or more of...

First time buyers who were supposed to be helped by the high-profile Help To Buy ISA have in fact found it...

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s a summary of everything relating to property that was in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn...

The government says its latest release of figures from its various Help to Buy schemes show that over 185,000 people have...

An influential backbench Conservative MP is the latest to speak out, urging the government to resolve the growing argument over the...

The National Association of Estate Agents has waded into the row created by the revelation that the government’s Help To Buy...

The Daily Telegraph appears to have exposed the government’s much-vaunted Buy To Let ISA scheme - billed as helping first time...

No fewer than 555,000 would-be first time purchasers have opened Help To Buy Individual Savings Accounts - HTB Isas - since...

The director of two major agencies says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge and stock at an “historically low level” will force...

It is anticipated that the government will reveal more details of how it proposes to simplify mortgage fees and make mortgage...

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 Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced a series of measures impacting on the property industry, including:   Mortgage interest relief for buy-to-let homebuyers...

The majority of agents do not see the supply and demand of homes levelling out over the next five years, according...