The healthy homes standards are the minimum standards for heating, insulation, ventilation, moisture ingress and drainage, and draught stopping in rental properties. All rental properties must comply with the healthy homes standards unless an exemption applies.

Landlords are responsible for ensuring their properties meet the standards and continue to over time. 

Healthy homes compliance — Tenancy Services(external link)

Unit titles partial exemption

If a rental property is part of building and the landlord does not own the entire building (i.e. they own a unit title), the landlord will be partially exempt from complying with parts of the standards if their ability to comply with the healthy homes standards is not possible because:

• they need to install or provide something in a part of the building where the landlord is not the sole owner, or
• they need access to a part of the building that they are not the sole owner.

Landlords must still take all reasonable steps to ensure the rental property or building complies with the healthy homes standards as much as is reasonably practicable.

Find out more about the healthy homes standards on the Tenancy Services website.

Exemptions to the healthy homes standards — Tenancy Services(external link)