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More than 17,000 purchase home under Help to Buy scheme

23 March 2014 Last updated at 08:56 GMT

More than 17,000 homes were bought under the government's Help to Buy scheme in its first nine months, government figures have revealed.

They also showed that 88% of the 17,395 were first-time buyers.

Judith Moritz reports.