Healthy Homes Assessment

The Healthy Homes Standards are part of the Residential Tenancies Act. It requires all rental homes to comply with specific regulations regarding insulation, heating, ventilation, moisture ingress and drainage and draught stopping.

In a Healthy Homes Assessment our technicians will visit the property and complete a full external and internal audit of your property against the five standards of the Healthy Homes regulations. Once complete, you’ll receive a full report documenting any required work to bring your property up to compliance and a 13A Compliance Statement that you are required to give to the tenant with the tenancy agreement. You’ll also gain access to our internal system for your specific property where you can upload evidence of work completed and generate an updated report and compliance statement at no additional cost.

Who needs to?
Landlords/Property Managers

Why do you need to?
Any rental property is required to meet the five healthy home standards. Our assessment will check your property against all requirements to ensure you meet the grade.

What happens if you don’t?
If you rent a property that does not meet the Healthy Home Standards you could face significant penalties from the Tenancy Tribunal.

Advantages
Our independent assessors have completed more than 30,000 healthy home assessments. We have the expertise to ensure you will meet all your requirements.

Disadvantages
There are none. This is a cost effective way to ensure you are meeting all the requirements of the Healthy Home regulations.

A check up is a repeat healthy home assessment conducted to ensure a property is still compliant. It includes a recheck of all aspects of the healthy homes standards, but does not include a new heating calculation (as unless major renovations have occurred in your living space, this calculation will not change.

We can conduct a check up on any property we have previously assessed, or any property where you can provide a copy of the heating calculation undertaken by a different supplier.

It is a requirement under the regulations to ensure your property continues to meet the Healthy Home Standards during a tenancy and that the compliance is regularly checked. A number of elements in the property can degrade over time which will lead to non-compliance with the regulations.

We’ll check the insulation levels and condition, ensure the vents are working and ducting is intact, check the guttering and drains,  run checks on the heating devices and ensure no new draughts have appeared.

We recommend this is undertaken at least once every 24 months.

If landlords don’t meet their obligations, they could face financial penalties of up to $7,200. If tenants don’t meet their obligations, they could face financial penalties of up to $4,000.

Check out our monthly Recheck Reports to see the importance of reassessing properties.

Also, use our Reassessment Decision Guide to help you decide if a new assessment is needed.

Who needs to?
Anyone with a rental property that has been assessed previously.

Why do you need to?
If you own a rental property there are certain standards that must be met. These include the regulations surrounding smoke alarms and healthy homes. Ensuring your property meets this once does not fulfil your obligations, you must make sure your property is always meeting the required standards. In the case of Healthy Home Standards you are even required to sign a Compliance Statement at the start of each new tenancy confirming you know the property does still meet all the requirements. Some of this is straight forward. For example once heating is installed, as long as it’s working and you haven’t renovated the property you’ll still meet the standard, but some things deteriorate without you knowing. Insulation gets damaged, drains get blocked or ducting damaged on extractor fans. Our Healthy Homes Check Up will ensure any of these issues are picked up.

What happens if you don’t?
Failure to meet the Healthy Homes Standards can result in significant penalties via the Tenancy Tribunal.

Advantages
Having a Healthy Homes check up completed by Healthy Homes New Zealand will take the pressure off. It’s one less thing to remember and you’ll have peace of mind that your property is getting an independent once-over, ensuring any maintenance requirements are picked up before an issue gets too big.

You don’t have to have used Healthy Homes NZ in the past, as long as you have a copy of a heating calculation that has been completed on the property, you can access this cost effective reassessment service.

Disadvantages
There aren’t any! This is a cost effective way to meet your obligations as a landlord