Supporting documents for the regional home building boost grant

When you apply for the regional home building boost grant, you will need to provide documentation to support your application and claim. The documents depend on the type of transaction you have entered.

Examples of documents are listed here. To avoid delays, it’s a good idea to make sure you have these ready before you start your claim.

Buying a new home

• your contract to purchase, signed and dated by the seller and applicants (including any special conditions or annexures)
• registration confirmation statement
  Registration confirmation statement

  Regional home building boost grant

  This is the document that proves that you were recorded as the registered owner(s) of the property at the time you acquire it.

  Contact Titles Queensland for a current title search (to show you own the property) if you don’t have this document.

   or current titles search that shows the applicants as the registered owners (available from Titles Queensland)
• final inspection certificate
  Final inspection certificate

  Regional home building boost grant

  This document proves that your home is approved as a class 1a dwelling and is usually given to you by your builder.

  Learn about the stages of a building inspection.

  or certificate of occupancy
  Certificate of occupancy

  Regional home building boost grant

  This document proves that your home is approved as a class 1b to 9 dwelling. It’s usually provided by a building certifier.

  Learn about the stages of a building inspection.

  issued by your local council or private building certifier
• statement
  Vendor statement

  Regional home building boost grant

  This is a statement from the seller that must show the name and title of the person authorised to sign it.

  If the vendor is a company or trust, the statement should be on their letterhead.

  For newly-built homes, it must state that the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence.

  For renovated homes, it must confirm:

  • the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence since the renovations
  • the type and extent of renovations
  • the sale of the home is a taxable supply under the GST Act and was in the course of the seller’s business.

  A vendor statement completed by a financial institution or any other party not mentioned above will not be accepted.

  from the seller to confirm the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence (not required for off-the-plan purchases).

If there is no written contract, or the purchase of the new home is between related persons, you also need to supply:

• the stamped Titles Queensland Form 1 Transfer, lodged with Titles Queensland
• evidence that consideration
  Consideration

  Regional home building boost grant

  Generally, the Australian dollar value paid for buying or building the new home.

  For owner–builders, it is the actual costs to the owner of carrying out the work, excluding any allowance for their own labour.

  has been paid by the applicants and received by, or on behalf of, the seller
• statement
  Vendor statement

  Regional home building boost grant

  This is a statement from the seller that must show the name and title of the person authorised to sign it.

  If the vendor is a company or trust, the statement should be on their letterhead.

  For newly-built homes, it must state that the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence.

  For renovated homes, it must confirm:

  • the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence since the renovations
  • the type and extent of renovations
  • the sale of the home is a taxable supply under the GST Act and was in the course of the seller’s business.

  A vendor statement completed by a financial institution or any other party not mentioned above will not be accepted.

  from the seller confirming the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence
• an independent third party valuation or market appraisal of the new home, dated within 12 months of the date the application for the grant is lodged.

Renovated homes

Documents you must provide with your application and claim include:

• contract signed and dated by the seller and applicants
• registration confirmation statement
  Registration confirmation statement

  Regional home building boost grant

  This is the document that proves that you were recorded as the registered owner(s) of the property at the time you acquire it.

  Contact Titles Queensland for a current title search (to show you own the property) if you don’t have this document.

   or current titles search that shows the applicants as the registered owners (available from Titles Queensland)
• statement
  Vendor statement

  Regional home building boost grant

  This is a statement from the seller that must show the name and title of the person authorised to sign it.

  If the vendor is a company or trust, the statement should be on their letterhead.

  For newly-built homes, it must state that the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence.

  For renovated homes, it must confirm:

  • the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence since the renovations
  • the type and extent of renovations
  • the sale of the home is a taxable supply under the GST Act and was in the course of the seller’s business.

  A vendor statement completed by a financial institution or any other party not mentioned above will not be accepted.

  from the seller to confirm that the home has not been previously occupied or sold as a place of residence since renovated
• statement from the seller confirming that the sale is a taxable supply under the GST Act and was in the course of the seller’s enterprise
• final inspection certificate
  Final inspection certificate

  Regional home building boost grant

  This document proves that your home is approved as a class 1a dwelling and is usually given to you by your builder.

  Learn about the stages of a building inspection.

  , if applicable.

Building a home

Documents you must provide with your application and claim include:

• your contract to build, signed and dated by the builder and applicants (including any special conditions or annexures)
• registration confirmation statement
  Registration confirmation statement

  Regional home building boost grant

  This is the document that proves that you were recorded as the registered owner(s) of the property at the time you acquire it.

  Contact Titles Queensland for a current title search (to show you own the property) if you don’t have this document.

   or current titles search that shows the applicants as the registered owners (available from Titles Queensland)
• final inspection certificate
  Final inspection certificate

  Regional home building boost grant

  This document proves that your home is approved as a class 1a dwelling and is usually given to you by your builder.

  Learn about the stages of a building inspection.

   issued by your local council or private building certifier
• one of the following, dated no more than 12 months from the date of the contract to build
  • independent third party valuation or market appraisal of the unencumbered value
    Unencumbered value

    Regional home building boost grant

    The value of property disregarding:

    • any encumbrance (e.g. money owed under a mortgage)
    • any arrangement that results in the reduction of the value of the property
     of the land, including any existing structures that were there before the date of the contract to build (e.g. home or shed)
  • stamped contract to purchase the vacant land (if the dutiable value is displayed)
  • stamped Titles Queensland Form 1 Transfer, lodged with Titles Queensland, for the vacant land (if the dutiable value is displayed).

Building your own home (owner-builder)

As an owner-builder, the documents you must provide with your application and claim include:

• registration confirmation statement
  Registration confirmation statement

  Regional home building boost grant

  This is the document that proves that you were recorded as the registered owner(s) of the property at the time you acquire it.

  Contact Titles Queensland for a current title search (to show you own the property) if you don’t have this document.

   or current titles search that shows the applicants as the registered owners of the land on which the home is built (available from Titles Queensland)
• first inspection report (Form 16) that shows the build’s commencement date
  Commencement date

  Regional home building boost grant

  • Buying or building a new home—the date when the contract is made
  • Building a home by an owner–builder:
    • the date when laying the foundations for the home starts

  or

  • • another date the Commissioner of State Revenue considers appropriate in the circumstances
  (the date the footings or foundations are certified)
• a detailed list of the construction costs
• copies of receipts equal to the grant amount
• evidence of value of the land as at the date of commencement of the build
• final inspection certificate
  Final inspection certificate

  Regional home building boost grant

  This document proves that your home is approved as a class 1a dwelling and is usually given to you by your builder.

  Learn about the stages of a building inspection.

  issued by your local council or building certifier.

Identification

All applicants with a relevant interest (or share) in the new home must provide copies of identification documents. These documents do not have to be certified.

All applicants are required to provide one document in each category:

Category 1

For persons born in Australia:

• Australian birth certificate or extract
• current Australian passport.

For persons born overseas:

• Australian citizenship certificate
• current passport and visa
• certificate of residence from Department of Home Affairs.

Category 2

• Australian driver licence
• Passport
• Australian firearm licence
• Australian proof of age card

Category 3

• Medicare card
• Concession or Department of Veterans’ Affairs card
• Motor vehicle registration
• Debit or credit card of a financial institution

Category 4

• Utility bill (electricity, gas) showing residential address
• Statement of account from a financial institution
• Insurance policy with residential address

All non-applicant spouses are required to provide one document in each category:

Category 1

For persons born in Australia:

• Australian birth certificate or extract
• current Australian passport.

For persons born overseas:

• Australian citizenship certificate
• current passport and visa
• certificate of residence from Department of Home Affairs.

Category 2

• Australian driver licence
• Passport
• Australian firearm licence
• Australian proof of age card

Additional evidence

If you declared a change of name or if your marital status has changed (or if any of the proof-of-identity documents above show different names for the applicants or spouses), you need to provide evidence of how or why the name changed.