After the success of the Help to Buy equity loan scheme, there are concerns that the potentially much larger mortgage guarantee aspect of the scheme could trigger a new house price boom when it is launched in 2014. Compared to the equity loan, however, the mortgage guarantee provides far fewer benefits to buyers and lenders. Thus we doubt it will be anywhere near as popular.
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