Although transaction levels remain below historical norms, competition for homes has been increasing in some areas of the country, leading some commentators to warn Help to Buy risks fuelling a house price bubble.
But depending on whether the service you choose has real legal muscle behind it (and the specifics of your case), the AILA report warned, "'some help' may be worse than no help" at all.
Topps Tiles total sales up by 11.7% May 20 , 20149.04am BST David Cameron: We'd listen if Bank of England warned over Help to Buy David Cameron has said the government would listen if the Bank of England urged changes to the "Help to Buy" mortgage subsidy scheme.
Graeme Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, warned that Help to Buy will force house prices up unless planning restrictions are eased.
But Resolution's chief economist, Matt Whittaker, warned that help to buy may simply boost house prices, lifting them further out of the reach of lower-income households.
It ranks above some of Alan Greenspan's very worst blunders".A number of experts have warned that Help to Buy will drive up house prices, pushing younger people out of the market.
However, some economists have warned that Help to Buy is stoking a pre-election housing bubble and that firing up the property market repeats the mistakes made before the financial crisis.
He also called on Congress to delay the sequesters, which he warned would help create a "significant headwind" for the US recovery.
Stern, a former chief economist at the World Bank and now IG Patel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, also warned that helping developing countries to cope with the adverse effects of global warming would cost British taxpayers about £3bn a year by 2015.
A poll in August by the Public Opinion Research Center indicated wide disapproval of the move, and many political commentators warned that helping to occupy Iraq was a repudiation of Poland's history, as a nation occupied for the better part of two centuries.
