The Federal Labor Government’s Help to Buy scheme, set to launch this year, has been touted as a game-changer for aspiring first home buyers, with the Government proposing to provide an equity contribution of up to 40% of the purchase…
FHBA Market Update: 28/August/2017 In today’s FHBA Market Update we take a look at where millennials are choosing to live, why first home buyer activity in Melbourne is falling, the launch of a new political party focused on housing affordability, our latest favourite…
New WA Premier Mark McGowan was sworn in as the state’s 30th Premier last month (March 2017), after Labor won a clear majority in parliament, ending Colin Barnett’s and the Liberal/National party’s reign as premier for 8.5 years. McGowan has stated…
We are pleased to announce that today we are launching with Mortgage Australia (our latest partner) a new service dedicated to first home buyers across Australia. Recently, many of our blog readers (500 to be exact!) completed our national first…
Today we showcase our 17th edition (& first edition of the 2016/17 Financial year) of FHBA New Homes of The Week. This week’s Top 5 include some of the more affordable opportunities currently available to secure a new apartment that has starting prices under the relevant First Home Owners Grant (FHOG) threshold. As some states…
Other then federal election time (by the way, don’t forget to vote this Saturday!), right now is also budget time for our State governments. Housing affordability is an Australian wide issue and some States have responded with announcements to increase…
The Northern Territory Government this week announced first home buyers will be able to receive up to a $10,000 exemption in their Stamp Duty costs when buying an established home to live in. Called the First Home Owner Discount (FHOD), eligible…
Despite the large increase in property prices over the last few years, unfortunately first home buyers have seen a significant reduction in assistance in the form of Grants & Stamp Duty concessions. However First Home Owner Grants (FHOG) and Stamp…
First Home Buyers Australia (FHBA) are pleased to announce a brand new function on our website. From today, you can now search for brand new first home buyer properties right here on fhba.com.au. In this new feature of our website,…
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