Lloyds Banking Group is set to lend £5bn to first-time buyers by the end of 2012. This amount will help over 50,000 people to get on to the housing ladder.

The lender is supplying mortgages to one in four first-time buyers ensuring its place as the largest lender in the current market.

Its Halifax sector provides one in three mortgages for affordable housing schemes such as shared ownerships and shared equity. It also provides one third of lending for all of the UK’s new build properties.

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