A comprehensive table showing the First Home Owners grants you may be able to claim depending on the date of the contract of sale is set out below.

A friend recently confided that “life was not easy” and it probably had not been for a while. I empathised, I remember having felt the same at different stages. But at the same time I was gladdened to reflect that I had not felt that way myself for some time
But it did get me thinking and I [...]

The federal government on Tuesday announced an extension to the existing First Home Owners Grant programs which were due to expire on June 30th.
The Boost program, announced in the first Rudd Government stimulus package last year, will be extended for six months, three months at the full rate of $7000 for existing homes and $14,000 [...]

Interest rates might be down and the government might be giving first home buyers up to an extra $19,000 but getting finance for your first home has got far tougher in 2009.