Comments on: Real Estate News: Boost To First Home Owners Grant Garners Excitement

By: Jazz Salinger

Jazz Salinger — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:12:51 +0000

Hi Sean,

The First Home Owner Grant was a good idea. I still think it pushed up the prices of houses at the lower end of the market. I worry that it helped some people get into houses they couldn’t afford.

But, on the whole for most people and the economy; it was a good thing.

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