Learn more about buying your home. Some questions to consider include:

• Are you eligible for a transfer duty concession for your home?
• Are you eligible for a mortgage duty concession?
• Are you aware that by selling, renting or transferring your principal place of residence, you may have to pay further duty?
• Use our online duties calculators to work out how much duty you need to pay.
• Are you eligible for the First Home Owner Grant (FHOG)?
• Will a change of circumstances affect your home concession?
• Do you need to pay land tax?
• Do you need information on transfers and registration of titles? More information can be found at the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water
• Can the Department of Housing assist you in buying a home?

If you received the First Home Owner Grant (or a home concession) on the home you are now selling, you need to be aware of the following to avoid the requirement to repay the grant:

(for example)

• If you sold, or are planning to sell, your principal place of residence within 12 months of moving in you may be liable for further duty
• If you did not occupy your home as your principal place of residence within 12 months of settlement, you may be liable for further duty

• If you are selling your home witihin your first 6 months of occupation, you may lose your First Home Owner Grant
  and
• you may be liable for Commonwealth Government Tax

You may be liable for additional duty, which was forgone due to your original First Home Owner Grant conditions or home concession conditions.

If you allowed another person to occupy your home within 12 months from the date you occupied your home or you allowed someone else to occupy your Principal Place of Residence (PPR), you may be liable for further transfer duty due to non-compliance with the original transfer duty home/first home concession conditions.

If you received the First Home Owner Grant on the home you now wish to rent out or grant exclusive possession to another party (in full or part), you need to be aware of the following to avoid the requirement to repay the grant or be liable for additional duty that was forgone due to non-compliance with your original FHOG conditions:

(for example)

• If you rent your home out, or grant exclusive possession to another party (in full or part) of your PPR within the first 12 months of the date on which you first occupied your property as your home, you may be liable to further duty.

• If you extend an existing lease or tenancy agreement to tenants (under an existing tenancy arrangement entered into with the vendor), you may be liable to further duty.