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Statistical data set: Help to Buy (equity loan) scheme monthly statistics

Updated: Updated with figures to July 2014.

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The eighth monthly release of breakdowns of cumulative sales under the Help to Buy (equity loan) scheme is available from Open Data Communities.

This allows users to quickly and easily navigate local level data. The figures cover the first 16 months of the scheme, from the launch of the scheme on 1 April 2013 until 31 July 2014, with breakdowns available:

by local authority, as previously published as Excel spreadsheets (see below) by Parliamentary Constituency (for the 94% of sales where the property’s postcode does not straddle a constituency boundary); figures have been attributed to an individual constituency by reconciling data against the ONS Postcode Directory (May 2014) where possible - figures for some constituencies may be subject to revision later in the year

The main points are:

in the first 16 months (to 31 July 2014), 29,829 properties were bought (legal completions) with the support of the Help to Buy: equity loan scheme the majority of sales were to first-time buyers, representing 85% of total sales the average (mean) purchase price was £209,390 the top 6 local authorities in terms of legal completions were Wiltshire (528), Leeds (503), Central Bedfordshire (453), Peterborough (417), Milton Keynes (406) and Bedford (352)

The breakdown by postcode sector for sales to 31 July (shown only for postcode sectors with 3 or more cases, to minimise the possibility of individual households being identified) will be made available on Thursday 11 September.

In the meantime, breakdowns of sales to 30 April and to 31 May are already available.

The next monthly release will include activity to 31 August 2014, and will be published on 25 September.

A mapping application drawing directly on data from Open Data Communities is also available.

Further revisions of sales to 31 March 2014 broken down by local authority

Some further revisions have been made to the breakdown by local authority of cumulative sales to 31 March 2014.

Cumulative number of Help to Buy: equity loans to March 2014, by local authority in England (second revision) (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 32.4KB)

Nationally, the total is identical to the previously published figure, but the local authority level figures for about 60 properties have been revised figures as a result of more up-to-date information on the allocation of properties to local authority areas becoming available. The figures now exactly match those published by the Homes and Communities Agency in Table 3 of its Housing Statistics, June 2014 tables.

‘Scheduled-out sales’

Two previous editions of this table, giving cumulative totals to the end of December 2013 and end of January 2014, also included figures for ‘scheduled-out sales’, an experimental statistic representing the number of potential completed equity loan sales following a reservation of a property in the scheme. The publication of these figures was suspended for the end of February 2014 due to issues of data quality.

Having investigated the data quality issues, departmental statisticians have concluded that the figures for ‘scheduled out’ sales do not provide a consistent or robust measure of the expected future number of sales under the equity loan scheme. This is principally due to the knock-on effect of sales management processes of developers at the end of the financial year.

The department therefore no longer publishes the figures as an experimental statistic.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics

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