Each week Mortgage Solutions and its sister title, Specialist Lending Solutions, pick the top comments from our readers.
This week’s selection of comments are in response to: Thousands of first-time buyers in arrears due to Help to Buy scheme stress – reports
Arron190 said: “Help to Buy should have been named Help Developers to make more profit. It just drove up the house prices and enabled developers to build more housing in over-developed areas where local roads and services cannot cope.”
Mike Cole added: “Likewise I was never a fan of Help to Buy amongst other things because of the risk of this happening. Who is paying for any freezes referred to in the article? Is it me? Because I don’t want my hard-earned tax going on that and subsidising someone buying a house even further.
“Wouldn’t it also increase the chances of negative equity if the charges were rolled into what is owed. Claims management companies are potentially going to have a free lunch with this.”
The comments here are from our readers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions.
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
