HEALTHY HOME REPORTS

Are you a private landlord or property manager? The Government’s new Healthy Home Standards may affect you – particularly if you own or manage an older rental property.

Ensure you, or your clients, meet all legislative requirements with our Healthy Home Reports. TradeTech provides professional and thorough inspections and reporting in line with the new standards. These highlight any areas that may require maintenance, repair or replacement, and detail associated costs so you can make appropriate, informed decisions about your property.

TradeTech’s Healthy Homes Reports are completed by experienced Licensed Building Practitioners, well versed in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development’s Healthy Homes Standards requirements.

For your peace of mind, our reporting is independent and transparent, and you are under no obligation to have any required works completed by our team.

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development’s Healthy Homes Standards aim to make a significant change to the quality of New Zealand rental homes. The Standards cover improvements to heating, insulation and ventilation, and addressing issues with moisture, drainage and draught stopping.

Landlords are required to ensure their rental properties meet the standards by the deadline that applies to them. In most cases this means that any new or renewed tenancy after 1 July 2021 will have to meet Healthy Home Standards within 90 days.

The cost to landlords will vary, and will depend on a property’s characteristics (for example, size, age, condition), and the amount of work required to bring each property up to the minimum requirements.

Under the Healthy Homes Standards, landlords will be required to keep records of how they are complying with the healthy homes standards, and these records must be able to be provided to the Tenancy Tribunal or the Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team.

TradeTech’s Healthy Home Reports are professionally developed official documents, which may be kept as part of your records or provided to tenants and/ or compliance bodies to show proof of works recommended or compliant status.