Interesting piece from the Guardian talking about local mortgage schemes to address affordable housing problems. The article highlight the Manchester scheme which "will underwrite up to 20% of the mortgage [for first time buyers]. The process allows the buyer to obtain a 95% mortgage on similar terms to a 75% mortgage – but without the need to provide the substantial deposit usually required.
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DCLG has announced details of its FirstBuy scheme to help first time buyers in the housing market
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Posted by Paul Cheshire, SERC and LSE The British housing market, especially the English housing mar...
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We exploit a policy change in the UK Help-to-Buy (HTB) equity loan scheme in order to identify the c...
Mortgage credit expansion policies – such as UK’s Help to Buy (HtB) – aim to increase access to and ...
Housing affordability is a key concern of an ever-larger fraction of UK voters who are crammed into ...
In most cases, an oversupply of dwellings will reduce house prices and therefore will make them more...
I was never much good at "up-and-down" economics and couldn't tell you what today's house building s...
According to reports "Property is now affordable for first time buyers in nearly four out of 10 area...
DCLG has announced details of its FirstBuy scheme to help first time buyers in the housing market
Recent reports of shortages of housing supply in the UK may raise concerns about rising rents and ho...
Posted by Paul Cheshire, SERC and LSE The British housing market, especially the English housing mar...
How do different households cope with housing costs? Laura Gardiner summarises new research which hi...
This paper seeks to predict the impact of future housing supply on the affordability of residential ...
Housing policy is usually seen as the domain of national governments, and in many countries local au...
The government’s Help to Buy scheme intends to boost homeownership by reducing the down payment requ...
The government’s housing policy has been controversial. Some applaud Help to Buy for kickstarting ac...
In this paper we created a novel framework for understanding housing affordability in England using ...
We exploit a policy change in the UK Help-to-Buy (HTB) equity loan scheme in order to identify the c...
Mortgage credit expansion policies – such as UK’s Help to Buy (HtB) – aim to increase access to and ...
Housing affordability is a key concern of an ever-larger fraction of UK voters who are crammed into ...
In most cases, an oversupply of dwellings will reduce house prices and therefore will make them more...
I was never much good at "up-and-down" economics and couldn't tell you what today's house building s...