City renters will be offered $7000 to buy property in rural areas as part of an overhaul of the NSW government's underperforming regional relocation grant scheme.

The Deputy Premier and leader of the Nationals, Andrew Stoner, will announce new rules for the scheme on Wednesday, including a minimum relocation distance of 100 kilometres to end rorting of the grant.

Deputy Premier and leader of the Nationals: Andrew Stoner. Credit:Jonathan Carroll

Under the original scheme, which only applied to city home owners buying new property in regional areas, five of the $7000 grants were paid to applicants who moved less than two kilometres.

Mr Stoner will also announce a new $10,000 ''skilled regional relocation incentive'' for people willing to move to regional areas to fill local jobs for a minimum period of two years, without the need to buy property.