Home buyers website launched by government

October 19, 2015

The Government has lauched a website to help hard working people who are looking to own their own home:

The new website brings home ownership schemes together including Right to Buy, Help to Buy and the Help to Buy: ISA available from 1 December.

According to the British Social Attitudes Survey, 86% of people have the ambition to own their own home, and the government aims to support them with a target of helping one million people into home ownership through government backed initiatives by 2020.

Since 2010, over 200,000 people across the UK have already benefitted from the government’s home buying initiatives, opening the door to home ownership.

Visitors to the government’s new website are able to quickly find the schemes that could help them by answering a few simple questions.

Anyone thinking about home ownership – and those who believe it is out of reach – can find out more here: www.ownyourhome.gov.uk

Allen Walkey

Highly experienced businessman with a successful career in property sales and investment both in the UK and abroad. Now a freelance writer and blogger for the property and Investment Industry, keeping readers up-to-date with changes and events in a rapidly changing world.

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