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Help to Buy
Coverage of Help to Buy in the Nexus archive.
- Help to Buy has netted Government £1.74bn... but future gains will be hit by plummeting flat prices
The Help to Buy scheme has generated £1.74 billion for the government, but future profits are expected to decline due to falling flat prices.
- Higher-income households benefited most from Help to Buy, thinktank finds
An analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reveals that higher-income households benefited most from George Osborne's Help to Buy mortgage schemes launched in 2013. The schemes, part of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government's initiatives, had minimal impact on social mobility, according to the thinktank's findings.