FOR VICTORIAN LANDLORDS, OWNERS & INVESTORS.
Before You Advertise Your Rental, Know What It Fails
Safehaus checks all 15 Victorian minimum standards, upcoming 2027 and 2030 requirements, likely upgrade costs, and what to fix first.
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Your property manager may handle compliance. But you still carry the risk.
Property managers can arrange checks, trades and certificates. But landlords still carry the cost, timing and decision-making risk. Safehaus gives you an independent owner-side view before small issues become expensive decisions.
A Safehaus report connects today’s rental-readiness position with future upgrade exposure, estimated cost ranges and practical next steps.
Current position
What appears compliant, missing, unclear or worth documenting before leasing, advertising or approving works.
Future exposure
Likely upgrade pressure around heating, cooling, hot water, insulation, draughtproofing and energy-readiness changes.
Owner decision plan
Estimated cost ranges and clearer priorities, so you know what to fix now, what can wait and what may become urgent.
Between the property manager, the trades and the landlord — giving you a clearer, independent view before a deadline, tenant request or vacancy creates pressure.
Four more deadlines. No extensions.
The 2027 and 2030 changes are staged, but the cost impact can arrive much earlier — at lease change, system failure, advertising, or tenant request.
- Rental providers should be ready to keep clearer records of property condition, compliance items and upgrade planning before advertising or leasing.
- Fixed heating or hot water that permanently fails or can’t be repaired must be replaced with an efficient electric system.
- New leasesEfficient cooling required in the main living area.
- New leasesCeiling insulation required where none, or only partial insulation, exists.
- New leases4-star showerheads required, subject to limited exceptions.
- New leasesDraughtproofing required for external doors, windows and unsealed wall vents, subject to exemptions.
- Efficient fixed cooling required in the main living area of all rental properties, regardless of lease status.
A property may need very little — or it may be carrying multiple future upgrade triggers. The only way to know is to check the property before the deadline creates pressure.
A $495 assessment helps you decide what to fix now, what can wait, and what may become urgent before 2027.
Safehaus Property Readiness Report
Stop guessing whether your property needs a minor fix or a major upgrade. Safehaus identifies likely compliance gaps, estimated cost ranges, potential rebate pathways and priority next steps — photo-documented and delivered within 48 hours.
Rental properties between tenancies, coming off vacancy, approaching a lease change, or properties that have not had an independent readiness check in the last two years.
Hidden heat loss. Found fast.
Thermal imaging helps reveal draught and insulation issues that standard visual checks can miss — before they become upgrade costs.
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Clearer rental decisions. Backed by the Safehaus Clarity Guarantee.
Every landlord assessment includes a debrief call with Keith, so you understand what matters now, what can wait, and what to do next.
Understand the risk
See where your rental property appears to stand across current standards, upcoming changes and likely future upgrade triggers.
See what’s changing
Understand upcoming standards, rule changes, future upgrade triggers and lower-priority planning items.
Know the next step
Review practical next steps before leasing, re-advertising, budgeting or approving works.
Still not clear after the call?
Email hello@safehaus.com.au within 7 days and we’ll refund your assessment fee.
Refunds are subject to our Terms of Service.
The deadline isn’t moving. The clock is.
Find out what your property is likely to need now — before a failed system, tenant request, lease change or compliance issue forces the decision.
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