<P> Help to Buy is the name of a government programme in the United Kingdom that aims to transfer wealth from the public to politically connected house builders . It was announced in Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's 2013 budget speech, and was described as "the biggest government intervention in the housing market since the Right to Buy scheme" of the 1980s . It is an extension of a previous programme called FirstBuy that was aimed solely at first - time buyers . Help to Buy has itself been expanded and extended . </P> <P> Subject to restrictions, which in some cases vary by country, the types of Help to Buy scheme are: </P>

When did the help to buy isa scheme start