https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/helptobuy
Homes 'too expensive' for Help to Buy Isa scheme
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/helptobuy
helptobuy housing scraping
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Homes 'too expensive' for Help to Buy Isa scheme
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/helptobuy
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2016-06-22T09:31:26.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-02-15T10:54:57.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-31T12:36:23.501Z (11 months ago)
- Topics: helptobuy, housing, scraping
- Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36424548
- Size: 105 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Homes 'too expensive' for Help to Buy Isa scheme
Our investigation in June 2016 found that [would-be-homeowners in large parts of England are being priced out of a government scheme to help first-time buyers](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36424548). Over a million people viewed the story within its first 24 hours and at lunchtime over 100,000 people were viewing the story at the same time. It also trended on Twitter.
A comments form added to the story attracted over 400 comments and led to a [follow up piece on readers' stories](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36576068). Engagement time on this and the original story was above average.
* The story, [Homes 'too expensive' for Help to Buy Isa scheme](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36424548) including interactive search
* **Newsbeat** reported their own version of the story: [The Help To Buy ISAs that aren't helping people to buy](http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36575795/the-help-to-buy-isas-that-arent-helping-people-to-buy)
* [Help to Buy Isa scheme: Your stories](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36576068)
* The BBC England Facebook page [published this video](https://www.facebook.com/bbcer/videos/vb.1392506827668140/1709348549317298/?type=2&theater)
## Get the data
Data was taken from the property website Zoopla at the start of June 2016. The [browse facility](http://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/) offers a way to go into each area, then sub-area, and then town. Areas with fewer than 10 properties for sale were omitted, as were those where averages were skewed by one particularly highly priced property.
* A [Google spreadsheet of the data can be found here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rBf9a3ZU1ecyCxK_jUhmjt2n8cRIvBqoQ5zwl7xs0Oo/edit#gid=0)
* A [CSV file is available in this GitHub repository](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/helptobuy/blob/master/Help%20to%20Buy%20Isa%20cap-%20Data%20from%20Zoopla%2C%20as%20of%201st%20June%202016%20-%20Sheet1.csv)
## Related repositories
* A follow up story in February 2017 looked at the take up of the scheme: [*Help to Buy scheme's impact across England revealed*](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/helptobuy-impact)