Buying
Local buyers dominate
07-Feb-2014
The prospect of overseas non-citizens buying up newly built houses and apartments in bulk – all receiving multiple $5,000 grants under the NSW New Home Grant Scheme – was raised on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph this week.
It was wrapped within the suggestion that Chinese investors were keeping first home buyers out of the property market. The article plucked from nowhere – but sure to become part of property folklore – the prospect of an overseas buyer purchasing 20 off the plan apartments, allowing them to apply for 20 of the $5,000 grants.
All they must do is apply through the foreign investment review board, which is no easy task, before getting the grant which is paid as a discount on stamp duty for properties worth up to $650,000 and vacant land worth up to $450,000.
Yes, under the first home owner scheme, a buyer had to be an Australian citizen and had to live in the home for at least six months to qualify.
But under the New Home Owner Scheme which was introduced two years ago in the 2012 NSW state budget, buyers can own homes in their country of origin and still apply for the grant for the purchase of any NSW properties. Because the grant is aimed at new construction investment stock, they don’t have to live in it.
While some Sydneysiders get hot under the collar discussing Chinese property purchases, patterns of buyer demographic preferences continue to be confirmed.
More than $100 million worth of units were sold on Saturday in a ¬Cronulla apartment project, ¬with 95% to local buyers. The 600-apartment Bluestone ¬Capital Ventures project will be built on land owned by the Cronulla Sutherland Leagues Club, heartland Daily Telegraph readership. There were 220 apartments released on Saturday with 177 sold.
The $300 million Woolooware Bay project was officially launched after more than 2,000 initial expressions of interest were received to buy in the project designed by award winning Architects Turner.
Bluestone managing director Ben Fairfax had previously signalled the key market for Woolooware Bay were first home buyers and last home buyers – who’d grown up in the shire and didn’t want to have to leave to find suitable affordable housing.
SOURCE: Property Observer
It was wrapped within the suggestion that Chinese investors were keeping first home buyers out of the property market. The article plucked from nowhere – but sure to become part of property folklore – the prospect of an overseas buyer purchasing 20 off the plan apartments, allowing them to apply for 20 of the $5,000 grants.
All they must do is apply through the foreign investment review board, which is no easy task, before getting the grant which is paid as a discount on stamp duty for properties worth up to $650,000 and vacant land worth up to $450,000.
Yes, under the first home owner scheme, a buyer had to be an Australian citizen and had to live in the home for at least six months to qualify.
But under the New Home Owner Scheme which was introduced two years ago in the 2012 NSW state budget, buyers can own homes in their country of origin and still apply for the grant for the purchase of any NSW properties. Because the grant is aimed at new construction investment stock, they don’t have to live in it.
While some Sydneysiders get hot under the collar discussing Chinese property purchases, patterns of buyer demographic preferences continue to be confirmed.
More than $100 million worth of units were sold on Saturday in a ¬Cronulla apartment project, ¬with 95% to local buyers. The 600-apartment Bluestone ¬Capital Ventures project will be built on land owned by the Cronulla Sutherland Leagues Club, heartland Daily Telegraph readership. There were 220 apartments released on Saturday with 177 sold.
The $300 million Woolooware Bay project was officially launched after more than 2,000 initial expressions of interest were received to buy in the project designed by award winning Architects Turner.
Bluestone managing director Ben Fairfax had previously signalled the key market for Woolooware Bay were first home buyers and last home buyers – who’d grown up in the shire and didn’t want to have to leave to find suitable affordable housing.
SOURCE: Property Observer