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❓ Hon Steve Martin asks about the number of first home buyers who received transfer duty concessions and exemptions, and the associated revenue lost to the WA State Government from 2021-22 to 2024-25. The answer provides a breakdown of the number of recipients and the dollar value of the discounts for each year.

AnsweredQoN 887Legislative Council

Asked

12 November 2025

Member

Hon Steve Martin

Portfolio

Finance

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I refer to first home buyers, and I ask: (a) how many first home buyers purchased a home, paying some transfer duty but at the first home owner transfer duty concession rate, in: (i) 2021-22; (ii) 2022-23; (iii) 2023-24; and (iv) 2024-25; (b) for each of the years in (a), how many first home buyers purchasing a home paid no transfer duty, because the first home owner exemption threshold applied; and (c) for each of the years in (a), what was the dollar value of the discount - both the concession and the exemption - in terms of the revenue lost to the State Government as a result of the first home owner exemption and concessions each year?

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Answered

24 February 2026

Responded by

Minister for the Environment representing the Minister for Finance

Response time

12 days

(a)-(c) The following data is based on the date the transaction was assessed by RevenueWA. It does not include transactions assessed at the first home owner rate of duty applying to vacant land. This data is current at 31 January 2026 and may not reconcile with previous data due to reassessed transactions.
First Home Owner Rate transactions – new and established homes
Savings for first home owners
Concession
Exemption
Concession
Exemption
2021-22
4,081
8,678
$32,678,582.25
$92,744,247.80
2022-23
3,591
6,500
$28,453,356.10
$70,380,627.45
2023-24
2,908
4,069
$21,696,799.65
$44,116,513.25
2024-25
3,257
2,562
$26,218,276.95
$30,992,932.05

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