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The Regional Relocation Home Buyers Grant provided a $7,000 grant to people who moved to regional NSW and bought a new home.To qualify, you had to
be an individual, not a trustee
be an Australian citizen or permanent resident on the date your employment in regional NSW commenced
live in your new home within 12 months after the purchase date or, if you bought vacant land, commence construction within 12 months.
Your new home had to be
purchased between 1 July 2011 and 30 September 2014
where you lived as your principal place of residence
valued under $600,000, or under $450,000 for vacant land.
You could also apply if
you acquired a long-term lease (five years or more)
the lease value was not more than $600,000 and
you moved in within 12 months after signing the lease.
You also needed to have lived in a NSW metropolitan area for
at least 12 months before moving to regional NSW if you owned your home or
two years if you were renting.
When the grant started, each of your metropolitan homes during this period needed to have been more than 100km from your new regional workplace or home. From 12 May 2014, this distance was reduced to 50 km, as long as the local government area you moved to was not adjacent to any of the metropolitan local government areas you previously lived in.
The Skilled Regional Relocation Incentive offered a $10,000 grant if you started a new job or moved your small business to a regional area. It was paid in two $5,000 instalments, with at least 12 months between payments.
To qualify, you had to
start working in a regional area between 1 January 2014 and 31 March 2015
be an individual, not a trustee
be an Australian citizen or permanent resident on the date your employment commenced
be employed full-time in one or more regional jobs for at least 24 months over a three-year period, or self-employed for at least two years.
In addition you had to
live in a NSW metropolitan area for at least two years before moving to regional NSW and
each metropolitan home being more than 100km from your new regional workplace and home. From 12 May 2014, this distance was reduced to 50 km, as long as the regional local government area was not adjacent to any of the metropolitan local government areas.
Meeting the eligibility requirements
Sometimes we could pay the grant before you met all eligibility requirements, so long as you could meet the requirements within a specified timeframe. If you couldn’t, you were usually obliged to repay the grant, although we had some discretion over this.
What counted as regional NSW?
An area in NSW was considered regional if was outside the following areas.
the Sydney metropolitan area including Ashfield, Auburn, Bankstown, Blacktown, Blue Mountains, Botany Bay, Burwood, Camden, Campbelltown, Canada Bay, Canterbury, Fairfield, Gosford, Hawkesbury, Holroyd, Hornsby, Hunters Hill, Hurstville, Kogarah, Ku-ring-gai, Lane Cove, Leichhardt, Liverpool, Manly, Marrickville, Mosman, North Sydney, Parramatta, Penrith, Pittwater, Randwick, Rockdale, Ryde, Strathfield, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, The Hills Shire, Warringah, Waverley, Willoughby, Wollondilly, Woollahra and Wyong
the Newcastle local government area
the Wollongong local government area.
After 16 March 2012, relocations to the Byron local government area weren’t considered regional.
Similarly, we wouldn’t consider any application for the Skilled Regional Relocation Incentive based on employment or self-employment in the Byron area for work starting after 16 March 2012.
