About one in 10 homes sold last month were bought by Australians using Labor's expanded 5 per cent deposit scheme to enter the market for the first time.

The federal government has deflected blame for an average 1.1 per cent rise in house prices in October , which the Coalition has linked to Labor's turbocharged first home buyers guarantee that took effect that month.

Out of about 57,000 homes, 5,778 were purchased using the first home buyers guarantee in October, which was the first month access to the scheme had been opened up to all income levels, according to new figures released by Labor on Wednesday.

Over the same period last year there were 3,901 guarantees issued.

Labor has insisted the huge uptake has been in line with Treasury's estimates, which has forecast 70,000 guarante

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