Potential tenants told to sign up online or miss out

Potential tenants told to sign up online or miss out
Brent Melville
Using covid-19 restrictions to veto or shortlist potential housing tenants before getting access to a property highlights the issue of having an unregulated property management industry, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand said. While preliminary registrations that include financial information and references is becoming common practice with major real estate companies, there is a fair amount of interpretation across different management firms. For example, advice to prospective tenants from Auckland-based Mission Property Management...

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