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Under-fire Prime Minister bids to win back younger supporters by promising to create ‘Generation Buy’ with new low deposit mortgages
- Boris Johnson says his governments want young people to buy their own homes
- In an interview, he has pledged to create ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people
- The Conservative Party leader wants to use home ownership to get votes
- His plan will involve special low-deposit mortgages for younger house buyers
Boris Johnson has said he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ where young people are helped to purchase homes with mortgages requiring low deposits.
In an interview with The Telegraph, the Prime Minister said he believed a ‘huge’ number of people felt excluded from home ownership in the UK.
But he said his Government would ‘fix’ the issue by helping people get onto the property market with low-deposit mortgages.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to develop special low-deposit mortgages to allow young people onto the housing ladder
Costly: The average cost of a home in Britain has risen to £224,123, according to Nationwide
Nearly half of prospective first-time buyers have delayed buying a home during lockdown
He told the newspaper: ‘I think a huge, huge number of people feel totally excluded from capitalism, from the idea of home ownership, which is so vital for our society.
‘And we’re going to fix that – ‘Generation Buy’ is what we’re going for.’
Mr Johnson said mortgages that help people get onto the housing ladder were needed, ‘even if they only have a very small amount to pay by way of deposit, the 95% mortgages’.
He said that low-deposit mortgages could be ‘absolutely revolutionary’ for young people.
The Telegraph reported that Mr Johnson had asked ministers to work on plans encouraging long-term fixed-rate mortgages with 5 per cent deposits.
It comes as more than 1,000 low-deposit mortgage deals have vanished from the market in the past six months, according to findings by Moneyfacts.co.uk last month.
By early September, there were just 76 deals for borrowers with deposits of 10 per cent or less, while in March there were 1,184 mortgages at 90 per cent, 95 per cent or 100 loan-to-value (LTV) available – meaning a fall of 1,108 deals.
Mr Johnson spoke about the issue ahead of the online Conservative Party conference, which begins on Saturday and continues to October 6.
Earlier on Friday, he confirmed funding for ’40 new hospitals across England’, with a further eight schemes invited to bid for future funding.
