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FHOC Eligibility Checklist

This eligibility checklist is only a guide.

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To test your potential; eligibility for the First Home Owner Concession, please answer the following questions:
1. Are all applicants natural persons (that is, not a company)?

Yes

No

2. Is at least one (1) applicant 18 years of age or more?

Note: A person may be exempted from the minimum age requirement. For more information, refer to the Guide to this application.

Yes

No

3. Is at least one (1) applicant an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia?

Yes

No

4. Are all applicants acquiring the property in their own right? (that is, not as an agent, trustee or in any other capacity)

Yes

No

5. Are the applicants, or together with the Chief Executive (Housing), acquiring the whole of the property?

Yes

No

6. Has any applicant or their spouse/de facto partner (whether or not an applicant) ever received the stamp duty First Home Owner Concession on the acquisition of a home or land to construct a home in the Northern Territory?

Yes

No

7. Has any applicant or their spouse/de facto partner (whether or not an applicant) ever owned, either jointly, separately or with some other person, a relevant interest in land in Australia on which there was a home that they used as their place of residence?

Yes

No

8. Will the applicants be occupying the home as their principal place of residence for a continuous period of at least six (6) months commencing:

(a) in the case of an existing home, within 12 months after signing or exchanging contracts for the acquisition of the home; or

(b) in the case of land to build a home or an off the plan home, within the earlier of:
  • - twelve (12) months after completion of construction of the home; or
  • - three (3) years after signing or exchanging contracts for the acquisition of the land or home.
Note: An applicant, but not all of them, may be exempted from the residency requirements. For further information, refer to the Guide found on the First Home Owner Concession Application Form. 		Yes No