Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme

Time

2013 - On-going (Quarterly)

The Help to Buy scheme began in Apr 2013

Dataset Quality

For data released from 5 March 2015 onwards, the Homes and Community Agency (HCA) have revised the completion date for the entire Help to Buy Equity Loan time series. The HCA have stopped counting payment date (when the money out is paid out by the HCA) and now report on the expected actual completion date. It is more accurate and is closer to the live situation, especially when HCA now recognise an asset based on a completion, rather than exchange and approved claim. As a result (and due to reinstating accounts) HCA have seen movement of actual completions dates. There should not be this level of difference moving forward

Data are drawn from HM Treasury

Dataset Access and Use

Datasets are freely available through Open Data Communities Portal.

Government attitudes to research use of their data appear favourable.

Geography

Additional datasets are provided at alternative geographies including postcode district, local authority and parlimentary consituency. Data on first time buyers are only provided at the local authority level.