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Help to Buy 'will fail if housebuilding slows'
Sharpest house prices increase since June 2002 sparks housing bubble fear
The thatcherite Help-to-Buy scheme will explode into another housing crisis if "soaring" demand is not matched by building, surveyors told the government yesterday.
Home sales are at their highest in over five years, according to monthly research by the the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
But its members also reported the sharpest increase in house prices since June 2002 - sparking fears over a new housing bubble.
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