Help To Buy Scheme
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Can a Help to Buy ISA help you buy a home?
Saving for your first home can take a while. Rising house prices, especially in London, mean the deposit required can be pretty big. So can the new Help to Buy ISA get you on the property ladder any faster?Launched on 1 December, the Help to Buy
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Osborne's housing plan won't help those stuck in the rental cycle
Housing, or rather the lack of affordable home, has become an issue of national importance, as a generation of people fail to get on to the property ladder thanks to rising house prices.In the Autumn Statement, chancellor George Osborne set out a
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Banks sign up to offer Help to Buy Isa
A raft of banks and building societies have signed up to offer the new Help to Buy Isa from December 1, the Chancellor has announced. Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest, Santander and Virgin Money have confirmed their
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Help to Buy schemes assist 35,000
More than 35,000 households have been helped on to the property ladder through the Government's low-deposit Help to Buy schemes, housing minister Kris Hopkins has announced. The latest figures show that since the launch of Help to Buy 14
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Government's house price wheeze means more tax
Inheritance tax (IHT) may not be a mandatory tax but it's getting harder to avoid as house prices rise and the threshold fails to keep pace. Once widely considered a tax on the rich, the prevalence of IHT being paid by 'ordinary'
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Want to stop the housing bubble? Tax buy-to-let
If you think the house price boom is being fuelled by the government's Help to Buy scheme, you're wrong - it's those pesky cash buyers pushing up prices. That's right, Russian oligarchs and Chinese speculators are fuelling
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MPs warn of Help to Buy 'risks'
The Government has yet to demonstrate that its flagship Help to Buy mortgage guarantee policy is providing value for money, an influential committee of MPs has found. The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warned that the scheme -
