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Maori Party: WOF for all rentals

The Maori Party would make a warrant of fitness for all rental properties compulsory within three years if it gets into government.

Property values up, rents next

Auckland landlords are hiking rents amid fears of big rates increases next year on the back of spiralling property values.

'Warrant of fitness' scheme for rentals winning wide support from politicians

A "warrant of fitness" scheme for all rental housing may be on the agenda whoever wins the election in September, a new survey has found.

Landlords 'too lenient' with bad renters

Landlords are too lenient when a tenant falls behind in rent or causes damage, property managers say.

Horror tenants frustrate landlord

A landlord whose property was left in squalor by a tenant owing more than $6k rent and another who caused $28,000 damage, says renting is risky.

Room with alfresco kitchen

For rent: a $220 a week room on Auckland's North Shore complete with a "summer kitchen".

Toilet-in-kitchen flushed out

A landlord tried to rent a North Shore studio which had the kitchen, bathroom and laundry in the same room.

Tax warning for new landlords

First time landlords are being warned to check how much tax they may need to pay on rental incomes ahead of the July 7 deadline.

Apartment rents tipped to rise

Average Auckland apartment sale prices rose more than a third in the past two years yet rents were static. But that could be about to change.

Auckland landlords lead in capital gains

Auckland landlords are making more capital gains off their rental properties than those elsewhere, a trend predicted to speed up in the next few years.

WoF trial starts on 500 state houses

State houses will have to be leak-free, well-ventilated and contain an electric light in each room to get a warrant of fitness.

Book comes to landlords' aid

A new book is out to help landlords, with a series of forms ranging from notices to increase rent to a dog clause document.

Squeezed in city of rising rents

Renters are paying up to $70 more a week than they were four years ago in some of Auckland's city fringe suburbs.

Tenants trash $1m house

Police are trying to track down the owner of an Auckland rental property bought for almost $1 million last year which was destroyed by the young tenants.

Glen Sowry: New era in state housing best yet

Changes in design, funding and land use will deliver healthy, sustainable communities, writes Glen Sowry.

Holiday offer pulls punters

An enterprising landlord has been swamped with inquiries about his modest rental property after offering a free holiday as a sweetener to prospective tenants.