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Landlords, tenants grappling with how to navigate vaccine questions.

Lockdown restrictions have left property groups calling for a three-month extension to the 90-day healthy homes standards compliance timeframe.

Covid's return to the community has put the housing market on hold, but experts say it is unlikely to change its pre-lockdown trajectory.

However, some landlords say the Government's Healthy Homes standards mean a warrant of fitness is not necessary. The standards, which set minimum requirements for heating, insulation, ventilation, moisture, drainage and draught-stopping in rental properties, became law on July 1, 2019. Swarbrick said while the standards were an important step, they were not very enforceable. Do you support the proposal for a warrant of fitness for rental properties and why? Are you a rental property tenant, and what issues do you think a warrant of fitness would help address in your home? Are you a la...

The anti-social behaviour included playing loud music, swearing, verbally assaulting a neighbour and a domestic incident that required police attendance. As required under new tenancy law requirements, the landlord had given the tenant a written notice after each incident. The adjudicator found the landlord had established the anti-social behaviour and that it was fair to terminate the tenancy. But the adjudicator granted the tenant name suppression “so that their ability to secure future rental accommodation is not hindered by this order”. ANDY JACKSON/Stuff Tenant names in Tenanc...