23 Mar 2021

First home buyer wants changes to grant scheme

From Morning Report, 6:39 am on 23 March 2021

A first home buyer is asking the government to change the first home grant scheme and restrict investors from buying up houses.

The government will today unveil its long-awaited plan to help first home buyers into the super-heated housing market and increase the housing stock.

Lower Hutt renter and would-be first home buyer Vicky told our housing reporter Eva Corlett, she and her husband have been looking in the region for months.