SALT LAKE CITY –Many Utahans have been taking advantage of the many incentives for buyers in the market today. Utahans are able to take advantage of a program for buyers of newly built homes, where they are qualified for a $6,000 Grant. I though many of you would be interested to see who and where that money has been going. Once the money is spent, there will be no more Grants,  so hurry and take advantage of the opportunity.

Spencer Janke

In the first six weeks of the state’s Home Run program, which is intended to eliminate a glut of homes on the market that have never been lived in, more than 530 people received $6,000 grants to buy a new house. Another 219 grants were awarded in the past two weeks.  80 percent of the grants awarded in the first month of the program went to homes bought for less than $300,000. Curt Dowdle, the executive officer for the Salt Lake Homebuilders Association, tells the Tribune the program is a great stimulus for them.

The program started March 16. Gov. Jon Huntsman signed the program offering 1,600 grants into law to help eliminate a glut of newly built homes on the market that have never been lived in. Huntsman has said that the housing grants are expected to create about 8,500 jobs. The $10 million for the program comes from President Barack Obama’s federal stimulus package