Time to upgrade housing grant, broker says
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"The economics that drove the original payment are outdated and need to be reviewed as per any government grant," said the broker's chief operating officer Dean Rushton on Wednesday. The First Home Owners Grant (FHOG) was introduced by the Howard

Mr Satterley called on the State Government to increase the first home owners grant from $7000 to $15000 on new and established homes up to $450000. "It could do this from July and keep it going until the end of the year," he said.

However, First National Runcorn sales agent Olive Geary warned many first home buyers, who had taken advantage of the first home owners grant last year to buy a townhouse in the suburb, were now unable to service their mortgage.
"It's (the first home owners grant) less important than other major centres because there are less cost of living pressures." The HIA has suggested the withdrawal of the grant will exacerbate a 30-40 per cent decline in new home starts in the past 18

Battellino also raised concerns for the tens of thousands of first home buyers enticed into the property market in late 2008 and 2009 by the federal government's boosted first home owner grant - an emergency measure designed to prevent a fear-driven
Developer Nigel Satterley prefers to hook first home buyers with ...
WA property developer Nigel Satterley has called for a halt on interest rate rises in the short term, a boost to the first home buyers’ grant and an amnesty on residential stamp duty in an effort to boost the struggling WA property market.
In a wide ranging speech at a business breakfast at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre this morning, the founder and managing director of the Satterley Property Group said Perth was in the best property buyers’ market he had seen in 40 years.
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