NSW Stamp Duty Cut in Half

by Mark Mendel, on 16th June, 2009 • No Comments

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The NSW Government has surprised the market with a NSW stamp duty cut for property investors and home buyers. The NSW Government has announced in the budget today that home buyers (not first home buyers) and investors will be entitled to a 50% discount on NSW Stamp Duty costs for new property purchasers under $600,000. It is interesting to note that about 80% of NSW properties for sale are sold under $600,000. First Home Buyers don’t pay stamp duty for homes under $500,000 and there is a sliding scale up to $600,000 where the full rate is applicable.

The discount provided by the Reese Government is only available to 31st December 2009 and only for brand new homes including new apartments, new townhouses & new house and land packages. It is also available for those properties that have never been occupied or sold previously as well as for off the plan NSW purchases – the short time frame hoping to encourage home buyers and investors to move into the property market before the end of the year.

According to the NSW Treasury, 90% of First Home Buyers have been buying established property, so the additional boost is to help developers with the new stock that is currently being marketed.

First home buyers will now also receive an extra $3,000 for the purchase of newly-constructed homes until June 30 in 2010. First Home Buyers can now receive a total of $41,990 in grants and stamp duty cuts!

The downside I see to this stimulus is that it ends at the same time as the boosted First Home Buyers Grant, at the end of December 2009. What this means is that the market may become over stimulated during the next 6 months and take a hard fall when both stimulus packages are removed at the same time. It would have been smarter for the NSW Government to have an overlap of at least 6 months allowing the stimulus to carry us through to mid next year and encouraging further development which is so desperately needed in NSW.

It will be interesting to see how the cut to the NSW stamp duty plays out in the media and the markets over the next 6 months.

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