Rental providers and real estate professionals will be prohibited from serving a notice to vacate after the first or initial fixed-term residential rental agreement, unless there is a valid reason. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 Status: Active

Rental providers and real estate professionals are required to provide 90 days' notice when serving a rent increase, increasing from 60 days. 

Rental providers and real estate professionals are required to use the new notices prescribed under the new regulations. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 Status: Active

Rental providers and real estate professionals are required to provide 90 days’ notice when serving a notice to vacate, increasing from 60 days. 

Rental providers and real estate professionals are required to use the new notices prescribed under the new regulations. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 Status: Active

Rental bidding has been banned for all parties, including rental applicants. 

Further, rental providers and agents will be banned from taking more than four weeks’ rent in advance. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 Status: Active

Rental providers and property managers must ensure that rental properties are fit for occupation at the commencement of a rental agreement. Properties must be compliant with minimum standards as designated by Consumer Affairs Victoria. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 Status: Active

Rental providers and real estate professionals are required to ensure smoke alarm safety checks are undertaken for all rental agreements, whether they commenced before, on, or after 29 March 2021. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 Status: Active

This aligns with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 and the Privacy Act 1988. 

It aims to ensure that personal information provided by renters is appropriately stored, protected, and handled in accordance with established privacy principles. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 

Status: Active 

The destruction and de-identification of personal information will be required with: 

• 3 years where the renter is successful, 

• 30 days where the renter is unsuccessful, and 

• 6 months where the renter is unsuccessful but provides written consent for the use of their information to apply for other premises. 

Rental providers and real estate professionals will be required to obtain written consent from renters before holding their information or using it for other rental properties. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 

Status: Active 

Rental providers and real estate professionals are required to obtain written consent from the prospective renter for the intended disclosure of personal information. 

Limited exceptions will apply, including disclosure in accordance with a court or tribunal's order and where necessary to prevent a serious threat. 

Implementation Date: 25 November 2025 

Status: Active 

All rental properties must have secured cords on internal window coverings to prevent them from forming loops. 

Implementation Date: 1 December 2025 

Status: Active 

The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), including Rental Dispute Resolution Victoria, will be able to consider additional factors when determining whether a proposed rent increase is excessive. 

Additional matters that could be prescribed may include: 

• the size or proportion of the rent increase from the existing rent, and 

• any other improvements made to the property since the last rent increase. 
  
  Implementation Date: 31 March 2026 

  Status: Design phase 

Agents will be required to use a prescribed standard rental application form that permits only specified information to be requested from applicants. 

Implementation Date: 31 March 2026 

Status: Design phase 

The application form will be limited to what’s necessary to assess an applicant’s suitability as a renter and to confirm their identity and capacity to pay the advertised rent. 

This will be limited to what’s necessary to assess an applicant’s suitability as a renter and to confirm their identity and capacity to pay the advertised rent. 

Implementation Date: 31 March 2026 

Status: Design phase 

Rental providers and real estate professionals will not be allowed to charge renters a fee for submitting a rental application or for paying rent. This extends to RentTech platforms, which cannot pass fees on to renters. 

Implementation Date: 31 March 2026 

Status: Design phase 

Agents’ representatives will be required to apply to the Business Licensing Authority (BLA) to register before they can be employed. Applicants for registration will need to demonstrate their eligibility for registration directly to the BLA. An employer estate agent will no longer be required to confirm an agent’s representatives’ eligibility for registration.

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Implementation Date: 25 November 2026 Status: Consultation phase

Owners corporation managers will be required to undertake minimum education requirements. 

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Implementation Date: 30 June 2027 

Status: Consultation phase 

Owners corporation managers will be required to undertake minimum education requirements. 

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Implementation Date: 30 June 2027 

Status: Consultation phase