First Time Buyers

(asked on 21st February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of first time buyers that have purchased a property through the Help to Buy scheme in each year since its inception.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 27th February 2020

The number of first time buyers that have purchased a property through the Help to Buy : Equity Loan scheme in each year since its inception in 2013 can be seen in the table below. Data for 2019 is not included as it is not complete:

YEAR

TOTAL

2013

12,467

2014

22,618

2015

25,069

2016

30,672

2017

37,476

2018

42,785

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