{"id":882,"date":"2014-06-02T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/?p=882"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T09:26:45","slug":"the-impact-of-help-to-buy-ii-in-six-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/the-impact-of-help-to-buy-ii-in-six-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of Help to Buy II in six charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second phase of the Government&#8217;s Help to Buy Scheme has been praised by some as a much-needed stimulus for housebuilding and economic recovery and derided by others as a distortion of the market and a drain on the taxpayer.<br \/>\nThe mortgage guarantee scheme is designed to give the housing market a boost by providing Government guarantees for high loan-to-value mortgages. The Treasury published its first statistical release on Help to Buy II on Thursday. Here&#8217;s a closer look at the data:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-883 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/valueloans-props_2925409c-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"valueloans-props_2925409c\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/valueloans-props_2925409c-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/valueloans-props_2925409c.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There have been 7,313 mortgage completions from the time the scheme began on October 8 through to the end of March, representing 1.3pc of all residential mortgage completions in the UK over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/borrowing\/mortgages\/10862234\/The-impact-of-Help-to-Buy-II-in-six-charts.html\" target=\"_blank\">telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second phase of the Government&#8217;s Help to Buy Scheme has been praised by some as a much-needed stimulus for housebuilding and economic recovery and derided by others as a distortion of the market and a drain on the taxpayer. The mortgage guarantee scheme is designed to give the housing market a boost by providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PjAq-ee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}