Healthy Homes compliance statement builder

When you need one

The Residential Tenancies Act requires the landlord to include a signed statement in every new tenancy agreement, and in every written renewal or variation. The detailed information requirements apply to agreements and renewals signed on or after 1 December 2020. Since 1 July 2025, all private rentals have had to comply with the standards, so for almost every private tenancy the statement now describes a house that should already meet them. Leaving the statement out can mean a penalty of up to $500 per tenancy, and a statement the landlord knows to be false or misleading is an unlawful act.

It has to be made and signed by the landlord, or by a property manager acting as the landlord. An assessor or installer can supply the facts, but they do not sign it.

What it must contain

The contents are set by regulations 34 to 39 of the Residential Tenancies (Healthy Homes Standards) Regulations 2019, plus the insulation statement required by section 13A of the Act. Tenancy Services publishes an official template that covers both, and landlords can either complete that form or attach a signed statement with the same information. In outline:

• Heating: the required heating capacity of the main living room, and the type and capacity in kilowatts of each qualifying heater.
• Insulation: for each insulated ceiling, the R-value when installed or the thickness when last inspected; for each insulated floor, the R-value when installed; dates installed and last inspected, if known; the location, type and condition of all insulation, walls included; and the reason any ceiling or floor is not insulated.
• Ventilation: a statement that every habitable room has qualifying openable windows or doors, and for each kitchen and bathroom whether it has an extractor fan, with its diameter or exhaust capacity.
• Moisture ingress and drainage: a statement that the building has efficient drainage, and that it has no enclosed subfloor or that each enclosed subfloor has a ground moisture barrier.
• Draught stopping: for each open fireplace, whether it is closed off or available for use at the tenant's request, and a statement that the home is free of unintentional and unreasonable gaps that allow draughts.
• Exemptions: which exemption is relied on and a brief description of the circumstances, wherever one applies.

If, despite reasonable efforts, you cannot find some insulation information, the statement must say what you could not find, why, and confirm you made all reasonable efforts.

How the free builder works

1. Enter the address, your name and the tenancy start date.
2. Fill in each standard in turn: the heater and required capacity, insulation details, fans and windows, drainage and subfloor, draught stopping and fireplaces. Mark a standard exempt only if a specific exemption applies, and give the reason.
3. Review the finished statement on screen and correct anything wrong.
4. Print it, or use your browser's Save as PDF, then sign and date it and attach it to the tenancy agreement.

Everything stays in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to Landy. If you keep the property's records in Landy, the in-app statement fills itself from the records you keep per standard.

Important limitations

The statement is your own declaration, not an official certificate, and its accuracy is your responsibility. The builder records what you tell it; it cannot check the house. It covers the situations the official template covers, including a heating capacity set by a specialist, geothermal heating, continuous mechanical ventilation, the partial insulation exemptions (one was added for some ceiling insulation from 25 September 2025) and exemptions that apply to only part of the house, and it will not print a statement that says the home complies while an answer says it does not. If you are unsure whether an exemption applies, read the exemptions guide and check tenancy.govt.nz.

An example

For a three bedroom weatherboard house at 12 Example Street, Palmerston North, a completed statement might read: the heating assessment tool gives a required capacity of 5.2 kW for the lounge, which has a 6 kW heat pump on the north wall. The ceiling has glass wool segments at R3.2 and the suspended floor has polyester blanket at R1.4, both installed in May 2019 and in reasonable condition; the walls are insulated in the rear extension only. Every habitable room has openable windows, the kitchen has a 150 mm ducted rangehood and the bathroom a 120 mm fan, both venting outside. Gutters and downpipes drain to the council stormwater system and the enclosed subfloor has a polythene ground moisture barrier. The lounge fireplace is closed off and the house is free of unreasonable gaps. The landlord then signs and dates it.