Annie, a travel and conference co-ordinator who works in Watford, didn’t think she qualified for help under any of the government HomeBuy schemes. Then she saw a Lea Valley Homes advert in a local paper and started to look into what help was available to her as a first time buyer.

“I applied for another HomeBuy scheme, and was accepted but found I couldn’t buy what I was looking for in the right location under that scheme. I decided to carry on saving towards a bigger deposit.”

With the launch of MyChoiceHomeBuy, she was contacted again by Lea Valley Homes and this time the options available to her enabled her to buy a spacious first floor flat, with a garden, in South Oxhey.

“The key word in this scheme is ‘choice’ and the process of buying my first home was completely stress-free. With current difficulties in getting mortgages for first time buyers, I would never have been able to do this without MyChoiceHomeBuy.”