Help to buy total approaches 13,000

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%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Almost 13,000 home buyers have used the first phase of the Government's flagship Help to Buy scheme to purchase a new-build property in its first nine months.

Figures released by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) showed there have been 12,875 sales of newly-built properties through the Help to Buy equity loan scheme in England since its launch, with a further 6,446 sales in the pipeline.

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