According to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Authority, over 169,102 properties were brought with an equity loan since the launch of the governments Help to Buy scheme in 2013, and the value of these properties are estimated to be more than £42bn.

Around 81% of total purchases have been made by first-time buyers and it has been announced that the scheme is set to run until 2021. Fasthomes.org has collated data provided by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Authority to determine which counties in England have had the most and least completed Help to Buy equity loan property purchases.

It found that the following six counties had the highest number of completed Help to Buy property purchases: London (12,206), Greater Manchester (7,280), West Midlands (7,074), West Yorkshire (6,530), Cheshire (6,391) and Essex (5,915).

At the bottom end of the scale, Fast Homes says that the counties with the lowest number of completed Help to Buy equity loan property transactions by the end of March 2018 are: Bristol (808), East Sussex (732), Herefordshire (309), Rutland (255) and the Isle of Wight (187).