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<p>Help to Buy: Equity Loan has helped almost 159,000 households buy a new-build home
from its launch in spring 2013 until December 2017. The scheme enables prospective
homeowners to buy a home with a deposit of 5 per cent. 81 per cent of sales have been
to first-time buyers.</p><p>The majority (59 per cent) of the households using the
scheme have had household incomes of £50,000 or less.</p><p>For people unable to afford
to purchase a home fully, there is the option of shared ownership, by which they can
purchase 25 per cent to 75 per cent of a home, with the option to buy further shares
in their homes in minimum 10 per cent instalments, and in most circumstances, up to
full ownership.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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