Investment Rentals Blog

The announcements comprise a selection of documents – one which goes to considerable lengths to put a brave face on the Governments housing market performance...

The first of the three layers comprises people who are buying either because they have shifted job or location or because that is what they...

A Newsroom investigation reveals a Ministry of Social Development initiative to provide emergency...

Lockdown Means Potential Selldown Property investors are being hit by a “perfect storm” that is predicted to drive many out of the market during the...

Bad Tenants – banning the ability to evict them – below is an article that is another reason (one of many) as to why you...

Auckland’s housing crisis is now so bad the Mayor wants to try and convince people with empty investment properties to let homeless people live in...

Renters taking their landlords to court for breaking insulation laws have pocketed more than $124,000 in fines...

It didn't need to end this way. Damaged exterior cladding, walls, ceilings and kitchen drawers, broken glass, plus new carpet needed in two bedrooms and the...

Landlords should be concerned By Andrew King Neighbourhoods will have to put up with antisocial, loud and offensive behaviour from difficult tenants if the Government...

A landlord who provided “unrequested and unwanted life advice” has been ordered to pay her tenant $1530 in damages. Tenancy Tribunal Adjudicator Bernadine Hannan said landlord...

About the healthy home standards In December 2017, the Government passed the Healthy Homes Guarantee Act Regulations 2017. This Act amended the Residential Tenancies Act,...

An Auckland family whose rental property has been illegally occupied by gang members since May have little choice but to wait for their day in...

Tenants paying $1200/week for an executive property in an affluent Auckland suburb won $4000 and a reprimand for their absentee, offshore landlord about obligations under...

By Lawrence Watt There is hesitation in the New Zealand housing market. Some of it is fuelled by legislative changes, such as the extension to...

By Tim Grafton Summer’s arrived and a good number of Kiwis will either be on holiday at baches, family homes and campgrounds around the country...

Life for rental property owners may become tougher as Labour’s newbie Housing Minister Phil Twyford tries to “make life better for renters”, Stop the War...

"There are some tenant groups who believe a landlord should never be able to end a tenancy unless the tenant is not meeting their obligations...

New Zealand's 1.5 million tenants in the country's 546,000 rental properties could be subject to a new three strikes pre-eviction policy under a proposal from...

Landlords can increase rent if the tenancy agreement allows this. They must give the correct notice and meet certain conditions. The rent can also be...

Discrimination happens when someone is treated unfairly or less favourably than another person in the same or similar circumstances. Discrimination is unlawful under the Residential...

The demand for rentals is growing at three times the rate of home ownership in New Zealand, a new study says. In its new paper...

An Auckland landlady thought her nightmare ended when she managed to evict a "tenant from hell" from her $2 million St Heliers rental property. Instead,...

New landlords often make rookie mistakes. In the hope of avoiding the cost of paying for the services of property managers many choose to source...

Landlords have called on the Government to grant them greater protection under the law after more tales emerged of "nightmare" tenants causing tens of thousands...

Have Auckland journalists gone Awol? Why aren't they investigating Auckland Council's inefficiencies and excessive costs relating to building and resource consents?

A tenant has been evicted and owes her former landlord almost $50,000 in one of the worst cases of rental property damage the Tenancy Tribunal...

The Tenancy Tribunal has sent a strong message to landlords who fail to meet their obligations under the Residential Tenancy Act.

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A Tenancy Tribunal Adjudicator in Christchurch has delivered an order that could signal the days of full rent refunds for tenants are numbered.

A recent law change means tenancy agreements must be in writing. Here’s what you can and can’t include — plus details of the new rules...

Intensification of a once-rural West Auckland suburb draws closer as notification of changes to land zoning is approved. Auckland Council’s planning committee approved public notification...

A Manawatu landlord has won what could be a precedent-setting case against his tenant who was let off a big bill for damaging his property.

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Average Auckland house price inches back to $1.1m; National average rises to $628k; Uncertainty remains over whether LVR restrictions and looming interest rate rises will...

People drunkenly falling through skylights and dogs wrecking carpets after being locked inside are incidents landlords are now having to pay to fix in the...

A tenant who let her dogs urinate throughout a house – despite a no-pets policy – doesn’t have to pay to replace the ruined carpets. Landlords...

Three months on from a landmark court case, landlords are angry that they cannot even claim the excess on their insurance claim when tenants damage their property accidentally....

You think it’s easy being a landlord? All we do is sit around and randomly put up rents when our Jags need servicing. Capitalist pigs,...

The Government has settled on a simplistic solution to the Auckland housing shortage. It will simply order the Auckland Council to expand its residential zoning...

Bad tenants are being unfairly let off the hook for property damage after a court decision, landlords say. The Court of Appeal ruled last week...

It has been suggested that landlords are responsible for rental property overcrowding and even hot-bedding, but this is unlikely to be the case. There doesn’t...

New data shows renting has become more common nationwide even though most households are still owner-occupied. Statistics New Zealand said the value of residential building...

Residents from across Auckland have reacted to revelations there could be rezoned for more housing and apartments. The Herald revealed this morning confidential documents and...

Auckland councillors are going behind closed doors today to propose rezoning thousands more houses in the city’s leafy suburbs for multiple townhouses and apartments.

Inner-city pads climb as much as 49 per cent in year as baby boomers move from suburbia. The average asking price for an Auckland apartment...

We are assailed on a daily basis by commentary from excited and breathless media types all singing to the same tune, a tune of woe...

Below is an article that was in today’s NZ Herald, reflecting a fair representation of the rental market. This also follows on from my earlier...