What House? General Election

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has finally confirmed that the General Election will be held on 6 May. But what will each of the parties do to increase the supply of much needed new homes? How will they help more first-time buyers onto the housing market?

Over the next few weeks, in the run-up to the election, What House? will be running a series of news reports and party political focuses, to help make your voting decisions simpler and determine which party would be best suited to govern this country and the UK housing market.

Brown says that "Britain is on the road to recovery and nothing we do should put that recovery at risk." But have Labour, who is short on their new homes target, failed in the quest to build more new build homes, given that new home supply is at a near all-time low?

David Cameron says the Conservative Party offers a "fresh start", but will the Tory party's 'local' policy further reduce or increase housing supply?

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said only his party offered "real change". But what do the Liberal Democrats propose on the housing front?

Who will you vote for? Email marc@whathouse.co.uk