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Government schemes helping more UK first time buyers onto housing ladder
Over 56,000 households have now been helped to purchase a home since 2012 through the UK Government’s revitalised Right to Buy scheme, the latest figures show. And when all the schemes are added together more than 312,000 households have benefited from home ownership schemes including Right to Buy, Help to Buy and Help to Buy: […] The post Government schemes helping more UK first time buyers onto housing ladder appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Call for incentives for UK land owners to build affordable homes
Land owners in the UK should be encouraged to build and manage their own affordable housing in the countryside to help solve the housing crisis, it is claimed. At the National Housing Federation conference Ross Murray, president of the Country Landowners Association, said that affordable rural homes need action. Ahead of the debate with other […] The post Call for incentives for UK land owners to build affordable homes appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Survey reveals SME builders constrained by lack of suitable land for new homes
A lack of available and viable land is the biggest barrier to small and medium sized builders in the UK delivering more new homes, new research shows. It is the second year in a row that the majority of SME house builders have cited this as the biggest issue preventing them from building more homes, […] The post Survey reveals SME builders constrained by lack of suitable land for new homes appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
