Housing Market (Budget 2013)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 25 June 2013.

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Photo of Andrew George Andrew George Liberal Democrat, St Ives 11:30, 25 June 2013

In high house price and low wage areas such as mine, where four times more properties are sold to second home buyers than to first-time buyers, intermediate market solutions—shared equity and affordable homes with section 106 planning restrictions—are often the only way for local families to get a toe on the housing ladder, yet the equity loan scheme does not have the rules to enable them to take advantage of it. Will the Government reconsider the rules to help local people in such circumstances?