According to the latest figures, 38,052 households have been helped into new build homes under HTB2 up to November 2014, up 2,099 on October 2014. Of these, 83% were first time buyers (31,640) rising to 94% outside London.
Additionally, 30,269 households have bought through the Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee scheme, while 5,518 households have bought a new build home through the NewBuy scheme.
Government schemes represent only part of the total, with Halifax figures this week showing 326,500 first time buyer purchases last year, up 22% on 2013.
Areas that benefitted most from HTB2 include Leeds (628 sales), Milton Keynes (516), Peterborough (512), Birmingham (465) and Bedford (454).
Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis said:
"Our long-term economic plan has turned this country around from the one we inherited, suffering from a crashed economy and a housing market where builders wouldn’t build, lenders wouldn’t lend and buyers couldn’t buy.
"Now numbers of first-time buyers are at their highest since 2007, housebuilding continues to climb and planning permissions are at record levels. All these measures combined are helping record numbers of people into a new home, including 73,000 households benefiting from Help to Buy and we will keep striving to get that total even higher."
