McGrath Lithgow Property Management Monthly Newsletter – August 2025

Now that the new tenancy laws have been introduced and we have had a few months to get ourselves across the changes, I thought that it was time to give our landlords an update on how we are seeing the changes affect our day to day life as property managers.

These sorts of huge changes bring a lot of anxiety to our landlords, and in all honesty to our team as well. We have a lot of learning to do, in readiness for the changes to the law to be introduced. This change was one of the biggest that I have seen in my 25 years in the industry. The first thing that I would note is that because of the extensive and focused training that we spent in the lead in period, we have seen the change be reasonably seamless. Our staff are all up to date on the new requirements, we have the skills to keep our clients informed and being as proactive as possible has honestly been the best tactic that we could have implemented around this requirement.

The fear of the unknown sometimes drives us to worry more than is necessary and that seems to have been the case around these changes. We all had areas that we were sure were going to cause us major concern, but that has not really been the reality in our day to day. There will and have been specific situations where things have been not to peoples liking, especially around the changes with pets, but it has not been the issue that we had built up in our minds prior to the 19th May.

With all the above being said, if you have a concern that has not been addressed or you still have some confusion around the changes, please reach out to either your property manager or myself, so that we can help with your understanding.