{"id":216,"date":"2015-03-27T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/now-most-first-time-buyers-need-property-ladder-help\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:38:40","slug":"now-most-first-time-buyers-need-property-ladder-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/now-most-first-time-buyers-need-property-ladder-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Now most first time buyers need property ladder help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">New research has found that the proportion of first time buyers who need financial help to get onto the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"House\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/house\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/house;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.03jm5;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/House\" >housing<\/a> ladder has increased significantly over recent years. As the average age of first time buyers increases as struggling twenty-somethings save up for a deposit, more and more buyers are turning to family for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We analyse at the new <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cml.org.uk\/cml\/home\" target=\"\">Council of Mortgage Lenders <\/a>research next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Expert expects <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"First-time buyer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/first-time-buyer\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/first-time_buyer;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/First-time_buyer;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05554_;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/First-time_buyer\" >first time buyer<\/a> numbers to rise in 2013<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sky News reports that more young people were living with their parents while trying to save for a deposit for a <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"property owner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/title-property\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/title_property;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01gzht;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Title_(property)\" >property<\/a>. And Halifax, one of the UK\u2019s biggest <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Loan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/loan\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/loan;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01dnzs;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Loan\" >lenders<\/a>, says that the average age of a first time buyer is now 30 compared to 29 just one year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The news network also reports that \u2018there has been a significant increase in the proportion of first time buyers receiving financial help in recent years.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Council of <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Mortgage loan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/mortgage-loan\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/mortgage_loan;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0273t5w;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Mortgage_loan\" >Mortgage<\/a> Lenders (<a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Council of Mortgage Lenders\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/council-of-mortgage-lenders\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/council_of_mortgage_lenders;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.099sp7;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Council_of_Mortgage_Lenders\" >CML<\/a>) estimates that almost two in three (65 per cent) of first time buyers of had financial assistance in mid 2012 compared with under one third (31 per cent) in mid-2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/housing\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/housing;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0q3zhcj;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Housing\" >Housing<\/a> minister Mark Prisk said the Government was taking <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Stairs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/stairs\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/stairs;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01lynh;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Stairs\" >steps<\/a> to help first time buyers get onto the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/property\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/property;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.05wrt;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Property\" >property<\/a> ladder. He said: \u201cMany people have to rely on the bank of mum and dad &#8211; so what we are trying to do with the builders and the Government by putting equity loans forward is make those deposit <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"low-\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/affordable-housing\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/affordable_housing;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.09jvc1;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Affordable_housing\" >affordable<\/a> for first time buyers. It\u2019s already helped 17,000 people. We hope it will help 27,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nick Marr, director of private house sales website The House Shop\u00a0believes that conditions for first time buyers are improving. He said: \u201cOver 215,000 first time buyers got onto the property ladder in 2012 \u2013 a 12 per cent increase over the previous year. As mortgages continue to become cheaper I expect this number to rise again in 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has found that the proportion of first time buyers who need financial help to get onto the housing ladder has increased significantly over recent years. 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