{"id":87503,"date":"2018-05-09T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-the-uks-starter-homes-initiative-ever-get-off-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:03:46","slug":"will-the-uks-starter-homes-initiative-ever-get-off-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-the-uks-starter-homes-initiative-ever-get-off-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the UK's starter homes initiative ever get off the ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt was launched four years ago, and Theresa May has doubled the target to 200,000 homes Q Is anything ever likely to come of the starter homes initiative? It was launched amid much fanfare by George Osborne towards the end of 2014 but there has been little news since, beyond a few stories regarding funding concerns.Meanwhile, the starter homes newsletter, which was getting increasingly infrequent and was only ever a series of adverts for developments (none of which contained starter homes) seems to have dried up, and the dedicated starter homes website simply links back to a generic new homes website, as it did when it was launched. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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