{"id":7550,"date":"2016-03-11T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/help-to-buy-is-riddled-with-loopholes-that-the-privileged-can-easily-exploit\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T07:27:58","slug":"help-to-buy-is-riddled-with-loopholes-that-the-privileged-can-easily-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/help-to-buy-is-riddled-with-loopholes-that-the-privileged-can-easily-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Help to buy is riddled with loopholes that the privileged can easily exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nRather than find measured and sustainable solutions to the housing crisis, the government has haphazardly built a house of cardsPicture a typical first time buyer. Chances are the image you have is of a young professional couple who\u2019ve spent years scraping together a deposit, and are keen to own the roof over their heads so they can start a family. I\u2019ll hazard a guess that very few people instantly thought of the wife of a 63-year-old Conservative MP: but, according to the Mirror, Peter Bone and his wife Jennie used the government\u2019s help-to-buy scheme to buy a new constituency home, purchasing the \u00a3175,000 home in her name, with a \u00a335,000 equity loan from the government. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/housing-network\/2016\/mar\/11\/government-help-to-buy-housing-scheme-house-of-cards\" target=\"_blank\">Help to buy is riddled with loopholes that the privileged can easily exploit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Rather than find measured and sustainable solutions to the housing crisis, the government has haphazardly&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-1XM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11456,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/find-the-home-loan-loopholes\/","url_meta":{"origin":7550,"position":0},"title":"Find the home loan loopholes","date":"April 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Rules are made to be broken. 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