Help to Buy Articles

The prime minister, David Cameron, is still in election mode. He was red-faced. He gesticulated violently. He name checked ‘Our Long-Term Economic Plan’. And he also managed to ask Harriet Harman, who was facing him over the dispatch box today, many more questions...

The government’s housing bill is a mess. It makes promises that it will not be able to deliver and shows a complete lack of understanding for how the English housing market works. In this sense, it is nothing new. Part of the problem is that housing policy in England...

For a government desperate for power, giving free cash to individuals is a giveaway that’s hard to beat. This is what Chancellor George Osborne did with the Help to Buy scheme aimed at helping people buy a new home with a government-backed mortgage. Parliament’s...