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First Time Home Buyers

The First-Time Home Buyer Incentive helps people across Canada purchase their first home. The program offers 5 or 10% of the home’s purchase price to put toward a down payment. This addition to your down payment lowers your mortgage carrying costs, making homeownership more affordable.

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It works like this:

  • You receive a 5% incentive of the home’s purchase price of $200,000, or $10,000. If your home value increases to $300,000 your payback would be 5% of the current value or $15,000.

  • You receive a 10% incentive of the home’s purchase price of $200,000, or $20,000 and your home value decreases to $150,000, your repayment value will be 10% of the current value or $15,000.

 

 

Just as the name implies, this incentive is for first-time homebuyers. You’re considered a first-time homebuyer if:

  • you have never purchased a home before

  • you did not occupy a home that you or your current spouse or common-law partner owned in the last 4 years (the 4-year period begins on January 1 of the fourth year before the Incentive is funded and ends 31 days before the date the Incentive is funded)

  • you have recently experienced the breakdown of a marriage or common-law partnership (even if you don’t meet the other first-time homebuyer requirements)

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Call us and we will explain in detail and walk you  through all steps.

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