Category: Help-to-buy scheme

What you need to know about Your First Home scheme for first-time buyers

Chancellor fleshes out details of scheme unveiled last month to help 70,000 households on to the property ladderBudget 2026: key points at a glanceIncome tax: How much more will you pay?Nils Pratley: Labour’s modest reheat of...

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Healey vows to stick to fiscal rules in budget built on hope

Chancellor tells Labour conference it’s ‘not progressive’ to fail to balance books amid rising welfare bill as borrowing costs climb to record highBusiness live – latest updatesPrice of diesel on UK forecourts reaches all-time...

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Help-to-Buy scheme delivered ‘very high value for money,’ review finds

Exclusive: George Osborne’s programme to reduce costs for first-time buyers delivered £25bn in social value in UK last yearGeorge Osborne’s scheme to reduce costs for first-time buyers represented “very high value for money”,...

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How a disastrous Tory policy blew up the housing market

In the second instalment of a special series on the emblems of Tory Britain, Oliver Wainwright looks at help to buy, a scheme that cost billions, pushed up prices, did almost nothing for new buyers – but made house builders a...

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