Helping Hand Headlease

In a Helping Hand Headlease arrangement, we lease a private rental property through a real estate agent and sublease it to you.

At the end of the lease term, if the lease has been successful, we will work with you and the real estate agent to transfer the lease.

The lease is undertaken as a general tenancy agreement and is governed by the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008.

Who can apply for a Helping Hand Headlease?

A Helping Hand Headlease is best suited to customers who can afford and sustain a private rental tenancy but cannot access the private rental market for various reasons, such as having a limited rental history.

To find out more about organising a Home Headlease, contact your local Housing Service Centre.

The Helping Hand Headlease is a product where the department may be able to headlease a private rental property on behalf of a customer. So the RentConnect Officer will go out and identify a property, apply for the property and if approved we will then lease that out to one of our customers via the Helping Hand Headlease. The goal with our Helping Hand Headlease is to enable that customer to access the private rental property, prove that they’re capable of maintaining and sustaining rent payments, property condition. So at the end of that headlease the customer can then apply to take over that tenancy in their own name and sign a tenancy agreement between the owner or the agent and themselves.

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