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First Home Owner's Grant
First Home Owner's Grant (FHOG)
If you are buying or building your first home you may qualify for a $7,000 First Home Owner Grant AND you may also qualify for an additional $3,000 Commonwealth Government grant.
The Commonwealth Government's First Home Owner Grant was implemented to offset the higher cost of buying a home under the GST. The Commonwealth Government Additional Grant
was designed to help with the high costs of Stamp Duty imposed on a property purchase.
Rules may vary slightly between states but payments will be the same regardless of where you buy and for how much. Payments are not means-tested, so your level of income does not
make you ineligible.
To qualify you need to be:
- a couple or individual buying or building your first home
- an Australian citizen or permanent resident
- entering into a binding contract to buy or build a new home after 1 July 2000 (owner-builders who started building a home after 1 July 2000 also qualify).
Houses, townhouses, apartments, and units all qualify for the grant. If you have previously purchased land but not yet built a home on it, you would still be eligible to apply.
The link below will take you to the Federal Government's website for an overview. Click onto your individual state's icon for more specific details and Application Form downloads.
Click here to download the First Home Owners Grant Application |
