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Speaker 1: But now tomorrow, well one tomorrow, it's the start of July,

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Speaker 1: if you can believe that, it's also d day for

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Speaker 1: rental properties to make these healthy home standards. Now, these

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Speaker 1: are the rules the previous government introduced back in twenty nineteen, heating, insulation,

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Speaker 1: moisted drainage, ventilation, that sort of thing. So we've got

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Speaker 1: five hundred and sixty thousand ish rental homes in this country.

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Speaker 1: How many have made it better? Group does inspections of

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Speaker 1: rental properties than the CEO is Matt Mason, who was

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Speaker 1: with us. Matt, very good morning to you, Good morning match.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like we haven't had time. Do you

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Speaker 1: think most people have pulled their finger out and got

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Speaker 1: it done?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, I do do think that a lot of landlords,

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Speaker 2: productive landlords obviously have had a long time to undertake

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Speaker 2: these properties and get them up to stand it. And

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Speaker 2: I do think those being proactive have Obviously there has

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Speaker 2: been a large amount of landlords that have left it

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Speaker 2: till the last minute and are scrambling now to get

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Speaker 2: them done.

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Speaker 1: What is the I mean, who's following up and what

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Speaker 1: are the penalties? Is there going to be a sort

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Speaker 1: of a raising of clamped down or no.

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Speaker 2: Look, we haven't directly been involved in any any audits,

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Speaker 2: but we do understand that MBR are undertaking a number

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Speaker 2: of audits and you know, we'll be issuing fines for

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Speaker 2: non compliance.

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Speaker 1: Are you under some sort of instruction if you go

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Speaker 1: into a home and it's not compliant, do you have

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Speaker 1: to tell someone?

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Speaker 2: Look, obviously we're working for the client that engaged us,

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Speaker 2: and so there's no register or anything like that that

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Speaker 2: we're obligated to supply that data to other than the

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Speaker 2: client that's engaged us.

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Speaker 1: In general, has it been arduous or did it very

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Speaker 1: widely depending on what the home was.

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Speaker 2: Look, and obviously there's a range of quality of rental properties.

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Speaker 2: Those that have been managed by property managers have typically

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Speaker 2: been a little bit higher quality and been well managed,

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Speaker 2: and so that's affected things. But look, largely, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's been the property that the type of property and

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Speaker 2: the quality of property out there hasn't been too bad,

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Speaker 2: and the regulations and pretty simple. It's not hugely.

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Speaker 1: I just know no exactly, and I would imagine that

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Speaker 1: the change in the rental market in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years has encouraged it, given that you know, you've

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Speaker 1: got to work pretty hard as a landlord these days

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Speaker 1: to get people into the house, so you'd want to

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Speaker 1: make it spick and span.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. I think that's definitely helped. Obviously, poor landlords

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Speaker 2: have had a bit of a tough time with interest

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Speaker 2: rates and things like that financially and which hasn't helped.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the genuine intent out there from

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Speaker 2: you know, landlords is to get a better quality, get

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Speaker 2: a better property for their tenants.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, all right, Matt appreciated very much. Matt Mason, who's

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Speaker 1: with Better Group. For more from the Mike Asking Breakfast,

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