TenancyHealthy Homes Deadline Coincides With Significant Integration For Property Management Industry
With the main Healthy Homes deadline just a few weeks away, property managers and landlords should hopefully be well on track to achieving compliance.
A quirk of the Healthy Homes Standards allowed property managers and landlords to not include a Healthy Homes Statement with fixed term tenancy agreements since December 1, 2020.
This will no longer be the case come July 1, 2021. All new and renewed tenancies, whether they are fixed term or periodic, must include a Healthy Homes Statement.
Furthermore, any new and renewed tenancy signed from this date will only have 90 days to be achieve compliance from a practical standpoint.
This could be problematic for many property managers and landlords who have yet to meet all the requirements of the Healthy Homes Standards.
All Clear, who were one of the first Healthy Homes Assessments companies established in 2019, have assessed over 8,000 rental properties and can confirm only 4% of those are compliant after their first assessment.
As of June 8, 27% of those rental properties now fully meet all the requirements of the Healthy Homes Standards.
This snapshot of data should provide enough evidence to suggest that property managers and landlords should be worried if they don’t have a plan to achieve compliance with these new regulations.
“Our advice has always been
consistent - early visibility will result in a more
manageable journey to Healthy Homes compliance,” All Clear
Co-Founder and Director Adam Gordan said.
“Delaying an assessment unnecessarily will only deprive you of much needed time to plan out any work required, and this becomes particularly evident in the event of a capacity crunch in the trades… such as anecdotal feedback about heat pump and installer capacity shortages in some regions.”
Tenancy.co.nz, who provide New Zealand’s most used tenancy application and agreement software system, and All Clear have come up with a solution to reduce the stress of these impending requirements. The two market leaders have fully integrated their platforms, and this will save property managers’ serious time.
Gordan estimates that this integration will reduce the workload of property managers by 45 minutes per tenancy agreement.
“Our valued customers
will be able to synchronise their tenancy.co.nz and All Clear
Services Portal profiles and have access to all properties
we have assessed for them,” Gordan
said.
“Furthermore, (property managers) will be able to easily view compliance information about these assessments and quickly produce documentation such as tenancy agreements and Section 13A statements live on the tenancy.co.nz portal.”
Tenancy.co.nz’s eBundle
application and agreement system is used by more than 3,000
professional property managers all over New Zealand and has
generated over 1 million tenancy applications for over
350,000 unique tenant users.
Tenancy.co.nz Managing Director Craeg Williams is thrilled for what this integration can provide property managers who use both All Clear and the eBundle tenancy application and agreement system.
“This Healthy Homes integration not only
combines two leading providers, but it also promotes
healthier businesses and healthier staff,” Williams
said.
“It saves property managers time
with data entry significantly reduced. We have heard of
property management offices hiring staff just to take on the
workload of Healthy Homes
compliance.”
“This integration removes or reduces the need to hire new staff to comply with the Healthy Homes Standards.”
The integration also
promotes healthier staff who can now have peace of mind that
the data being entered from All Clear is accurate and
compliant.
“Because this process is automated, it reduces the chances of human error. This offers greater protection in terms of compliance, which results in reduced stressed levels for staff," Williams said.
“It is well documented that high stress levels are common in the property management industry and this integration is going to help alleviate that.”