Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Help to Buy

Australia’s Help to Buy scheme to get more people owning homes opens next week. Here’s what you need to know

The new program, launching on 5 December after political delays, was part of Labor’s 2022 election pledge

The Guardian - AU

Will Help to Buy give first home buyers a leg up? Here’s what we can learn from the UK

New national figures have reiterated what most already know: buying a home in Australia is more unaffordable than ever.

The Conversation

New build 95 per cent mortgage scheme offers boost to London first-time buyers

New product brings homeownership closer for those struggling to save for a deposit

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Barratt Redrow sells more homes despite ‘challenging’ market

The UK’s biggest housebuilder called on the Government to support first-time buyers as it updated investors on its recent trading.

Evening Standard

Stamp duty hangover hits London as 80 per cent of first-time buyers face higher tax from April

There’s been a three per cent drop in buyer demand as the increased cost of moving bites

Evening Standard

A $33 billion vote-grabber or real relief? Examining the Albanese government’s big housing pledge

The Australian housing market is in crisis: soaring prices, increasing rental stress, declining home ownership rates and a growing number of people experiencing homelessness.

The Conversation

Help To Buy alternative: 15% interest-free boost offered to first-time buyers with 5% deposit

Those with a five per cent deposit will receive a 15 per cent interest-free ‘boost’ when they buy from Persimmon

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

London first-time buyers: is 2025 your year to buy a home?

This could be your best chance to buy a London home in more than a decade — here’s where to look

Evening Standard

The Senate has passed the Help to Buy housing scheme. It will help, but not much

Having finally stared down Greens resistance in the final sitting week of the year, the Albanese government looks set to tick off the last of its 2022 housing commitments in need of parliamentary approval.

The Conversation

Greens Agree To Pass Labor’s ‘Help To Buy’ Housing Bill Despite Previously Calling It A ‘Lottery’

The Greens have agreed to pass Labor's Help To Buy housing policy, after blocking it for months, and trying to improve the bill.

Pedestrian.tv

Greens back Albanese government’s Help to Buy housing bill after failing to win concessions

Minor party says it is waving bills through after accepting government ‘doesn’t care enough about renters to do anything meaningful for them’

The Guardian - AU

Almost a third of those eligible for Victorian homebuyer scheme would miss out under federal Help to Buy

Exclusive: PBO report finds Help to Buy has lower income and property price caps than generous state program

The Guardian - AU

Will Labour help Londoners get on the property ladder, as they promise to build 1.5 million new homes?

The young are hoping for a rabbit out of the hat that will let them buy a home at last

Evening Standard

Labor’s Help to Buy housing bill is darkening parliament’s doors again. Will this time be any different?

For each of the parties, the debate has little to do with the number of people in the scheme or their finances. It has become a political symbol

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Phil Spencer: 'The Government must do more to improve the situation for landlords and downsizers'

London’s housing market is stuck in a vicious cycle of unaffordability, red tape, and inertia, and the Government must make controversial tax decisions to liberate it, according to one of the UK’s best known property pundits.

The Guardian - AU

PM rejects claim his government ‘mired in mediocrity’ as he defends record on gambling and housing crises

Anthony Albanese tells ABC ‘the problem isn’t advertising, the problem is gambling’

The Guardian - AU

Housing bill explained: what’s at the heart of the bitter standoff between Labor, Greens and Coalition?

Anthony Albanese has not ruled out a double dissolution to get a key piece of legislation – Help to Buy – through the deadlocked Senate. Here’s what you need to know

AAP

New bid to nail down housing bill as talks hit the wall

A key housing bill will be pushed back into parliament despite the government, the opposition and the Greens reaching a stalemate in negotiations.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Labor faces a fight on housing. Could negative gearing reform help it get its groove back?

Housing affordability is an issue voters care about – and Labor needs more than just scares about Peter Dutton

The Guardian - AU

Should Australia recognise housing as a human right? Two crossbenchers are taking up the cause

The Australian Human Rights Commission thinks so, including it in a list of rights that should receive legislative protection

The Independent UK

General election 2024: Labour and the Conservatives’s plans to tackle the housing crisis in full

A guide to the main parties’ manifesto promises on housing

Evening Standard

Tory manifesto: pledge to revive Help to Buy scheme 'devoid of imagination' say property experts

The manifesto also promises to scrap stamp duty for some first-time buyers, but no word on non-doms

The Independent UK

Conservatives pledge to support first-time buyers and build 1.6m homes

The manifesto promises to make stamp duty cuts for first-time buyers permanent and deliver 1.6 million homes in England over the next Parliament.

The Independent UK

Tax cuts, help to buy and stamp duty: Key takeaways from the Conservatives’ general election manifesto

Rishi Sunak claimed his party are the only ones ‘with the big ideas to make our country a better place to live”.

The Guardian - AU

Help to Buy: Labor promises to ‘open the door of home ownership’ – but does the contentious scheme stack up?

The Albanese government faces a political fight as the Greens and Coalition have already shared their distaste for the idea – for different reasons

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Australian Research Council

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.