{"id":56691,"date":"2025-09-11T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56691\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:12:09","slug":"help-to-buy-and-first-home-scheme-low-take-up-of-initiatives-to-help-first-time-buyers-remains-a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56691\/","title":{"rendered":"Help to Buy and First Home Scheme: Low take-up of initiatives to help first-time buyers remains a puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Michael Broderick of First Home Scheme is amazed so many people who want to buy a property are unaware of the supports available\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Broderick, CEO of the First Home Scheme.  Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/chael Broderick 001.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Broderick, CEO of the First Home Scheme.  Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We\u2019ve all heard the complaint: how can young people buy a house when they can\u2019t even save the 10pc deposit that\u2019s needed?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But there is a way, says Michael Broderick, chief executive of the First Home Scheme \u2013 and he\u2019s surprised more of us don\u2019t know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Broderick of First Home Scheme is amazed so many people who want to buy a property are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[41023,625,79,18,8752,19,17,6501,39513,1267],"class_list":{"0":"post-56691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-allied-irish-banks","9":"tag-bank-of-ireland","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-housing-crisis","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-john-burns","16":"tag-permanent-tsb","17":"tag-property-mortgages"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}