Category: Healthy Homes

The Healthy Homes extension applies to all new and renewed tenancies that commenced from or after August 28.

The Government has provided significant updates to three sets of regulations.

Regulation 10A of the Healthy Homes Standards provides an additional way for landlords to comply with the Heating Standard.

How much benefit does the new heating calculator provide for owners of modern dwellings and relevant apartments?

Changes to the Healthy Homes Standards have been finalised and a date is set for when they will become law.

A spokesperson for HUD told tenancy.co.nz that these changes are still in the pipeline.

In response to rental sector feedback, the Government has agreed to amend the Healthy Homes Standards and its heating requirements for rental properties.

With the main Healthy Homes deadline just a few weeks away, property managers and landlords should hopefully be well on track to achieving compliance.

The extension of a fixed term tenancy agreement will not activate a start date for Healthy Homes compliance.

The Labour party have promised to regulate the property management industry and streghthen Healthy Homes compliance should they win this month’s election.

In an unexpected move, the deadline for landlords to include detailed information in their tenancy agreements about how their property meets the Healthy Homes Standards has been extended.

National leader Simon Bridges has promised to overhaul the Healthy Homes Standards should his party win the election in September. The opposition leader told TVNZ’s Q&A programme that his party would “by and large” reverse the Healthy Homes Standards, aside from insulation rules. The standards include the progressive introduction of extractor fans in bathrooms and […]