First-Time Buyers Face Prices Almost 10% Higher Than Year Ago

[Assume The Opposite]

From the Guardian today:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/19/first-time-buyers-face-prices-almost-10-higher-than-year-ago-buy-to-let-investors

First-time buyers face prices almost 10% higher than year ago:

"Rightmove blames competition from buy-to-let investors for jump in asking price for properties typically bought by first-time buyers"

So Help to Buy has merely re-inflated building companies and the banks, while not helping the first time buyers it was aimed at? There's a surprise..

[Meerkat]

From the Guardian today:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/19/first-time-buyers-face-prices-almost-10-higher-than-year-ago-buy-to-let-investors

First-time buyers face prices almost 10% higher than year ago:

"Rightmove blames competition from buy-to-let investors for jump in asking price for properties typically bought by first-time buyers"

So Help to Buy has merely re-inflated building companies and the banks, while not helping the first time buyers it was aimed at? There's a surprise..

Of course, easy credit does not affect demand... in the statists' world.