Don't forget that many landlords are retired people who depend on the rental income for their living expenses. All retired people have been living on reduced income for the last few years because of low interest rates. A number of landlords may have been out of pocket because tenants couldn't pay rent during covid. I wouldn't be surprised if there were small increases in rent.

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Hey I think it's about time that the constant landlord bashing stops.Most landlords are not the picture that is constantly painted. How quick all the covid pressure and costs landlords had to bear and are still paying for are forgotten how about giving and taking not just taking. Ever heard of a Tennant offering to pay a little more because they can and appreciate the landlord?

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Just quickly looking at interest rates over last 6 months for investment loans and mortgages are the biggest cost to a landlord.

2 year fixed rate loans have gone up 60%

interest only loans up 35%

So if a landlord has refinanced recently, they have seen huge increase in their costs and what is being asked of the tenant is in the 5-10% range is not huge in comparison.

On affordable housing the NRAS scheme actually delivered on the goals of getting people into affordable housing at a reasonable cost to the government, but there were some rorters who abused the scheme to give it a bad name. Both labour and liberal plans coming into the election were policy on the run and will make matters worse not better.

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It appears all proposed solutions to the availability of rental accommodation center around increasing supply. Basic economics suggests another approach is to reduce demand (population growth). Growing a population faster than infrastructure is a sure way to increase price pressure and demand.

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Totally agree with Gary!!!

Learn from the populated countries and revise polices.

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I have a rental property with my wife

We own it. The lady who rents it is lovely and for four years she has rented from us. She's clean and caring, last two years I've dropped the rent $60 a week and free no rent for two weeks at Christmas. I've been treated like a second class person because I rented as a young man, it's brutal what landlords do especially to the elder people.

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My wife and I rent a property. We have very reasonable rent and the tenant has been with us for 15+ years. We fix any problems that arise straight away. After GST, Land Tax, Insurance rates, and maintenance there is very little left. Landlord bashing is based on misinformation and should not be politicized.

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We rented with my parents and had some demanding landlords, others were ok. Now that we own our home outright we get bullied by the tenants next door everytime their landlord raises their rent. Can't win.

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I've got quite a few rentals (12off) and the recent rise has been a long time coming, rents haven't gone up much in the past 10 years, expenses have gone up a lot - land tax, council rates, maintenance/repair costs and I've never won a tribunal hearing for tenant reckless damage the judge would always consider as 'wear and tear'. Also unfair regulations - sometimes even stating water usage is landlords cost, why? Finally landlords being compensated for all the govt cash grabs through land tax (which are ridiculously high), unfair regulations and tribunal hearings that always favour the tenants and leave the landlord out of pocket.

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Greed... property owners and property management.

..greed. we do what the market wants. It's all about selling and the glossy pictures...

Real estate is cheap, well the people anyway. I've looked after a four bedroom house for three years, work in the landscaping trade so have had excess plants and turf. Fixed the retic, turfed half the back yard and the garden went from nothing to the best garden in the street, hedge weekly, put in new tapware,light cover and shower head, painted and water proofed water damage beams and wooden batons. Put a security light out the back and all the property management do is make you feel like if there's one mark on the wall they will take your rent and my rent is about to go up $1820 a year.

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You did not really explain your headline

How much can your landlird increase your rent.

Or have i missread the article

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I totally get the need to improve infrastructure to meet demands of the population, but we have significant labour shortages which are impacting supply, service and costs to consumers. As with everything, the rising rent issue is one part of a complex economic environment that needs to be looked at holistically..

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Well done Rod, I too have an older tenant who pays below market rent. Never a problem and she has been with me for 20 years.

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If a tenant can leave a property because he/she found a cheaper alternative, why the landlord can't raise the rent as much as market conditions allow?

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Hi Jean,

You raise a good point because there's no uniform rule across the country.

As I mention in the 'Rent rise restrictions' section above, the frequency by which rent can be increased really depends on the type of lease involved and the location of the property, while as Joel Dignam points out in the same section, there are actually no restrictions when it comes to the dollar figure which rent can be increased by.

Excessive increases can be appealed, but how 'excessive' is defined seems to depend on the state of the rental market rather than a renters' own circumstances.

- Tom Watson,

Money magazine

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