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Tenancy plan a worry for landlords and neighbours

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 removes the 90-day notice period for evictions. The Government is considering this move as part of an extensive review of tenancy laws, including allowing tenants to make modifications to their …

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Landlord who provided ‘life advice’ punished

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 Christina Liu, who rented her Mt Eden Rd property in central Auckland out as a boarding house, gave the advice as part of an increasingly tense tenancy between herself and Jianing …

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Leaked plans for Auckland suburbs: will apartments be built in your backyard?

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 maps showing the poshest and poorest neighbourhoods in the city will be rezoned for more housing and apartments. Some of Takapuna’s most prized streets could lose single house, tree and …

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Residential Views

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 and impending doom. Tirades range from the standard statement that we’re experiencing yet another absurd high in a real estate market out of control, to more dramatic sentiments referring to …

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