Extend Help To Buy or face house building disaster, warns CPA

By Hamish Champ2018-10-15T06:00:00

Construction Products Association warns government that output will dive if scheme is wound up in 2021

The government has been issued with a dire warning that private housebuilding will start to decline next year unless ministers extend the Help To Buy scheme beyond 2021.

In its latest forecasts the Construction Products Association (CPA) said the private housebuilding markets in the North and Midlands were being buoyed by Help To Buy, offsetting declines in London and the south east.

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