Do not wait till the due date - start preparing now to ensure your residential or commercial properties abide by the standards in time.

To assist you, we have user friendly tools and resources for you to use. They include lists, and choice tools that can help discover if you need to make any changes to comply with the requirements.

There is a compliance declaration design template you can utilize to put in your occupancy agreement (having one is a requirement).

Healthy homes standards - info for landlords

The healthy homes standards are created to make homes warmer, drier, and much healthier for occupants. They introduce minimum standards for heating, insulation, ventilation, moisture ingress and drain, and draught stopping in rental residential or commercial properties.

Keeping up to standard

Landlords are responsible for making sure their residential or commercial properties meet the requirements and continue to in future.

Keeping your residential or commercial property up to standard

Landlords who do not meet their responsibilities for the healthy homes standards are in breach of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 and may face effects, like punitive damages.

Compliance timeframes

All boarding houses, Kainga Ora and registered neighborhood housing service provider homes need to currently abide by the healthy homes requirements.

Private rentals need to comply between 1 July 2021 and 1 July 2025. the date depends on if there has actually been a new or restored tenancy throughout that time.

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