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There were only small changes in rent for 3-bedroom homes compared to the March quarter in any of the more populated areas. The only outliers here were Kingston, where the cost for a three-bedroom home increased by $25 per week and Glenorchy, where it rose by $15. In contrast, there was no change in Inner and Outer Launceston compared to the last quarter. In Burnie and Devonport rents for three-bedroom homes went up by $10 per week, Eastern Shore plus $5. In Hobart, rent for 3 bedrooms decreased by $5 per week. However, the median rent still sits at $680 per week, which would be unaffordable for most households in Hobart.

While the quarter changes were small, changes to the previous year again are significant. Weighted median rents, which include all property sizes at a set distribution, increased by 12.7 per cent in the North and 11.3 per cent in the North West. The South saw the lowest increase in median weighted rent over the last year with 8.7 per cent, but with a median weekly rent of $554 remains the most expensive place to rent in Tasmania. Over the past 12 months, rent for 3-bedroom homes increased by $70 in Outer Launceston and Greater Devonport, $50 in Glenorchy City, the Eastern Shore and Inner Launceston. Rents in Burnie went up by $40 over the last year, Hobart by $30 and Kingston rents increased by $25.

Find the full Tasmanian Rents report for the June 2026 quarter as well as other editions here.

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We understand making a submission can be daunting task, and hope the following FAQs can help you get some clarity about the process.

Submissions close on 12 June 2026.

Who can make a submission?

Anyone who has an interest in or experience with renting in Tasmania can make a submission. This includes people who are currently renting, have rented in the past or would like to rent in future.

Why is it important for your voice to be heard? 

It is really important to raise renters’ perspectives right now!

While we can campaign for change, tell stories and raise issues as we have done for many years, now carries more weight because the government wants to hear from us and has promised to modernise the Residential Tenancy Act.

Currently, we have some of the weakest renter protections in the country.

Many stakeholders including housing providers, real estate businesses and landlords will make submissions.

Therefore, it is important that the government hears the stories of Tasmanians, whose lives are directly impacted by the Act, for example because fixed-term leases mean you have to uproot your life every 12 months, or because excessive rent increases mean you struggle to make ends meet.

What’s in the Discussion Paper?

The Discussion Paper can be accessed .

The discussion paper lays out topics, that have been recommended for change by the Tenants’ Union of Tasmania, community stakeholders, industry groups, advocacy bodies or service providers, or topics that were agreed to by the National Cabinet’s ‘Better Deal for Renters’.

In each chapter a topic is outlined, including the current situation, issues with the Act and in some cases suggested changes.

Below that is one or more questions to be answered. The government suggests:

“Respondents are encouraged to engage with the questions on its merits, identify practical issues, and provide evidence or examples that may assist the Government in assessing whether reform is needed and, if so, what form it should take.”

Other resources in the discussion paper include: explanations on how to make submissions, some definitions of relevant terms, an overview of all questions in the Appendix and an overview of the recommendations made by the National Cabinet’s ‘Better Deal for Renters’.

What is the “Better Deal for Renters” that is referenced in the Discussion Paper?

In 2023, the National Cabinet (the leaders of each State and Territory as well as the Prime Minister) agreed on a list of measures to strengthen renters’ rights and streamline rental laws across the country. Each State and Territory agreed to implement the measures they had not yet met.

The list of measures, which include a requirement for genuine reasonable grounds for eviction, better practices for survivors of family violence and more effective regulation of short-stay accommodation amongst others, forms part of the Appendix of the Discussion Paper.

How to make a submission?

The starting point for your submission should be the Discussion Paper. It contains questions on many aspects of the Residential Tenancy Act that are currently being reviewed. Find the points you want to talk about.

Write down your opinion and experience.

• You don’t have to be an expert, briefly describe what happened to you.
• How did it affect your life, your family?
• How did you feel?
• What would have made your situation better?

You can submit your submission

• in an online form ;

• email it to this address haveyoursay@justice.tas.gov.au;

• or send it in a letter to this address:

Department of Justice
Office of the Secretary
GPO Box 825
Hobart TAS 7001.

If you want your submission to remain confidential (only accessible to the people who are collating responses to the Discussion Paper) please write ‘confidential’.

Keep it friendly! It will help our cause to improve the Act for renters.

We understand that issues around renting can be stressful, and you should absolutely say that. However, telling your story in a matter-of-fact tone will have greater impact than an abusive tirade about other people or organisations involved.

Submissions that include offensive or defamatory content or identify other people e.g. landlords, real estate agents or neighbours will not be published. If you truly have nothing nice to say about a particular landlord or Real Estate Agency, simply refer to them as ‘the landlord’ or ‘the Real Estate Agency/agent’.

Can I only address one topic in the Discussion Paper?

You can address as many or as few of the questions in the Discussion Paper as you like.

If the experience, you write about only touches one topic that’s fine!

If you have an opinion on several topics, please let the Government know!

If the topic you would like to add doesn’t match any question of the discussion paper, e.g. renting in caravan parks, add it under the open question 9.1.

Will my submission/ details be made public?

The default is yes, submissions will be made public including your name and the submission text itself, but not your contact information like address or email address.

You can ask for submissions to be confidential by writing something like the following into your submission: “I request that my name and story remain confidential, and not be published.”

Can I get help making a submission?

We are happy to assist you with your submission. Send an email to info@tenantstas.org.au, however we do not have capacity to write a submission for you.

Over the next few weeks, we will successively publish our own responses to each question in the discussion paper. You are welcome to borrow from them.

I don’t want to make a submission, but I have a renter experience that needs sharing. What can I do?

Send an email to info@tenantstas.org.au, we intend to include renters’ stories into our responses and are happy to hear your story.

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The stories and experiences of actual renters are an extremely valuable part of this process.

The government needs to understand how, for example, the current lack of security, repair standards and limits on rent increases affect Tasmanian families.

We strongly encourage you to make your own submission, and refer the page to friends and family who also rent their homes and would like to have their say.

Find all information on how to make a submission .

Submissions close at 11:59pm on 12 June 2026.

Over the next few weeks we will publish resources to help you make your submissions, as well as our responses to specific topics.

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• renters in Tasmania have gained the right to keep a pet unless the is a valid reason for the landlord to deny;
• the Federal Government announced the phasing out of capital gains tax concessions and negative gearing for new property investors;
• the Tasmanian government is consulting on the modernisation of the Residential Tenancy Act; and
• the Anglicare Rental Affordability Snapshot recently published their grimmest findings yet: out of the shrinking numbers of homes available for rent in Tasmania, none were deemed affordable for single parent families on Single Parent Payments, young people on Youth Allowance, Tasmanians receiving a Disability Support Pension or single Tasmanians on Jobseeker.

The Tasmanian Rents March Quarter 2026 confirms that the ongoing housing availability and affordability crisis is not easing yet.

All across the state weighted median rents are increasing, most prominently in the North and North-West with quarter changes of 5 and 3.1 per cent and year changes of 11.7 and 12.4 per cent, respectively. Weighted median rent in the South are higher than the latter, but may be inching closer to the affordability ceiling with a comparatively moderate increase of 1.7 per cent over the quarter and a year change of 8.1 per cent.

In 3-bedroom homes we saw high increases in some areas with small populations like Central Coast (+$40pw), Central North (+$85pw) and Central South (+$40pw). However, the small number of rental properties for rent in these areas mean that data is more easily skewed and less representative.

In urban areas there appears to be a trend of higher increases in the outer suburbs while increases in the inner-city suburbs grow more slowly: 3-bedroom rents in Outer Launceston increased by $30 per week compared to the December quarter, in Glenorchy the increase was $25 and renters in Kingston and on the Eastern Shore had to pay an additional $20 for renting a 3-bedroom home. Meanwhile, rents for similar homes in Hobart and Inner Launceston “only” increased by $15 and $10, respectively.

At $685 per week in Hobart and $560 per week in Inner Launceston, homes would be deemed unaffordable for the median Tasmanian household income!

Find the full Tasmanian Rents March Quarter 2026 publication as well as older editions here.

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In the North West, the weighted median rent rose by 3.5 per cent compared to the previous quarter and by 10.5 per cent over the same quarter last year. The weighted median rent rose above $400 per week for the first time, exactly 4 years after it first reached $300 per week. That is an increase in rents of 33.7 per cent or an extra $101 per week in just four years, making renting in the income poorest region of Tasmania even more difficult.

Rents for three-bedroom properties increased most compared to the June 25 quarter in inner Launceston (from $510 to $545), the North East, which includes towns like George Town and St Helens (from $400 to $430) and the South East, which includes Dodges Ferry, Sorrell and Midway Point (from $525 to $550).

Find the full Tasmanian Rents report for September 2025 here.

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The National Association of Renters’ Organisations and National Shelter are calling for urgent, decisive action to give renters a fair go across all states and territories.

● We are urging the Federal Government to step up by committing to robust mechanisms to monitor the rollout of these reforms.

● We are advocating for mechanisms to incentivise state and territory governments to implement the nine principles outlined in the Better Deal for Renters, alongside additional principles from NARO’s National Nine report.

● We are calling for Federal funding for NARO to provide expert advice informed by the experience of tens of thousands of renters accessing our member services to transform the renting experience for Australians and make sure renters have a seat at the table.

The 2-year performance report card assessing progress of all states and territories in implementing the Better Deal for Renters is attached. At the height of a rental crisis, some state and territory governments have fallen short in supporting renters, resulting in families facing arbitrary evictions, unfair rent hikes, invasive rental application processes and unsafe homes.

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