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Property Brokers is working with its clients and tenants during the Covid-19 lockdown to ensure that all cases are dealt with in a compassionate way.

As a nation, we've experienced seismic changes over the past few days and weeks. It is essential to take stock.

The Government has announced a freeze on rent; the rent levels are to be frozen for half a year due to the spread of the coronavirus in New Zealand.

Our doors may be closed, but our team is still hard at work. On Monday the 23rd of March the NZ Government announced that New Zealand would be escalated to Level 3 and that it would move into Level 4 of the Covid-19 Pandemic Alert Plan within 48 hours. 

One of the greatest challenges we face currently as an industry is coping with cadence of change, and the reality of the amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act.

Never has the property management industry been under so much pressure. There are changes in legislation, new levels of compliance, added costs, pressure from the media, staff burnout, influences on the bottom line and an increased turnover of investors. The pressure is coming from everywhere.