Welcome to our Healthy Homes Standards Compliance Series. In light of this week’s rollout of the Residential Tenancies (Healthy Homes Standards)...
Tag - Tenancy Issues
Concerning Hood, Angela Julie vs First National Marlborough Limited [2019] NZTT Blenheim 4180394 The issue What can a landlord reasonably recover from a...
Given the ongoing publicity and often heated discussions, all landlords should by now know that there are a number of mandatory upgrades and enhancements...
Concerning Tobin, Jackie vs CHEN, JIANQING [2019] NZTT Auckland 4172141 The issue Whether tenants are afforded the Osaki protection for damages caused by...
This week’s question comes from Kelly (paraphrased): I have a lady tenant with kids who would prefer not to put her partner’s name on the tenancy...
This week’s question comes from Don (paraphrased): My tenant is withholding payment of his water usage saying that I am required by the RTA to send him a...
This week’s question comes from Barry (paraphrased): An impending termination has gone sour; the tenant is now threatening to issue me with a trespass...
We recently covered the oversight power of the Tenancy Compliance and Investigation Team (“TCIT”). In the course of posting that information, we...
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...
Early this month, Tenancy Services released new versions of its bond forms. We have a quick chat with Allan Galloway, MBIE National Manager of Dispute...
So, no more letting fees as of today. Our expectation is that most landlords will bear the cost of letting. That said, there are still other costs relating...
*Note that for the purpose of this article we will distinguish ‘letting’ from that of ‘property management’ as understood in the New Zealand context. From 12th...
Tenancy Services is reaching out to APIA landlords for feedback on 4 Bond forms currently being re-designed. The exercise is to improve on the current forms...
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...
