This week’s question comes from Sue: I have just been advised that with the changes to the Residential Tenancy Act my property manager needs to file...
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Welcome to our Healthy Homes Standards Compliance Series. In light of this week’s rollout of the Residential Tenancies (Healthy Homes Standards)...
Concerning Hood, Angela Julie vs First National Marlborough Limited [2019] NZTT Blenheim 4180394 The issue What can a landlord reasonably recover from a...
The basic principles of property insurance are relatively simple. Let us say that there are 100 houses in a town, and looking back over many years we find each...
This week’s question comes from Sue (paraphrased): I am renting out a property that has six bedrooms. For the purpose of the Residential Tenancies...
Currently, hot news in the property world right now are the proposals to ‘reform’ the Residential Tenancies Act. A number of changes to this Act are under...
There are two pieces of law currently in their consultation stages that are simply too important and consequential for landlords to ignore: reform of the...
There are two pieces of legislation currently under consultation which will dramatically affect all residential landlords. These are the proposed amendments...
54 Tribunal orders amounting to $38,713.76 in exemplary damages and costs against an Invercargill landlord are reasons enough for all of us refresh our...
Considering the tremendous stress Anderson v FM Custodians Ltd has had on the landlord community, Vic Inglis’ successful appeal at the District Court is...
From 1 July 2016, all new residential tenancy agreements are required to include a signed insulation statement detailing the extent of insulation in the...
This week the Government introduced the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill (2) to Parliament. There are three main parts to this Bill that are worth noting...
If a landlord’s consent is being sought for the tenant to sublet the property to Airbnb guests and in return for the consent the tenant offers a percentage of...
For some months, the New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation (the NZPIF), the Tenancy Tribunal and other key tenancy organisations have been in...
Following the recent Court of Appeal decision on Holler & Rouse v Osaki, the Tenancy Tribunal prepared Practice Note 2016/1 outlining, to its adjudicators...
The amended Residential Tenancies Act came into effect on the 1st of July. While smoke alarms and insulation are without a doubt the most significant of all...