How do you qualify for the First-time Home Buyers' Tax Credit?

In order to be eligible for the First-time Home Buyers' Tax Credit, your home must meet the following requirements:

• Be within Canada
• Be an existing or new home
• Be a single, semi, townhouse, mobile home, condo, or apartment
• Can include a share in a co-operative housing corporation that gives you possession of the home
• You must intend to occupy the home within one year of purchase
• You or your spouse must purchase a qualifying home
• The home must be registered in either your name or your spouse's name
• You cannot have owned a home in the previous four years
• You cannot have lived in a home owned by your spouse in the previous four years
• You must present documents supporting the purchase of the home