Rent, Buy or Own
Welcome Home First Steps
Our Welcome Home First Steps course explains everything you need to know about owning your first home before you buy. The course is free, and includes the following learning modules:
- Is home ownership right for you?
- Deciding what you want and need in a home
- Budgeting and goal setting
- The home buying process
- Getting a home loan
- Maintaining your home and building a new home
- Selling your home and refinancing your home
- Building or relocating a house on multiple owned Māori land
- Affordable house design
Welcome Home First Steps is available through an online course, workshops, or distance learning nationwide.
You can find online enrolment information and the timetables for the workshops in your region at the Welcome Home First Steps website.
