What changes for Victorian renters and landlords this week
Rental and property restrictions are now taking effect across Victoria, tightening the rules for owners, agents and tenants as the state shifts to a stricter housing framework.   


Changes from 1 December 2025
The latest reforms introduce stricter protections for renters and tougher obligations for Victorian property owners.

Milei’s deregulation demonstrates that removing government from voluntary transactions can benefit both sides.

With the 2020 rent control law now scrapped, apartments have poured back into Buenos Aires’ rental market, offering a plethora of new options. On Zonaprop, one of Argentina’s largest real estate platforms, traditional rental listings have skyrocketed—from 5,500 before the reform to 15,300 today, a staggering 180 percent rise.A third of that increase occurred within just one month of Milei’s deregulation.

Real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) rents have fallen, short-term workarounds are declining, and tenants are finding properties suited to their needs.

Javier Milei won the Argentine presidential election on November 19, 2023, promising to take his chainsaw to the country’s corporatist government. The self-described libertarian had made a name for himself as an economist highlighting the devastating consequences of even well-intentioned interventions. One of his first moves was Decree 70/2023, the so-called Megadecreto, which slashed through decades of interventionist policies. Among its targets: rent controls and mandatory minimum tenancy lengths.

“It was not just that the law was repealed, but also that it was replaced with nothing,” Llach explains. The decree left landlords and tenants entirely free to negotiate almost every aspect of their agreements—rent levels, how often rents could be revised, the currency used for payment, and any collateral or guarantees needed. Milei even scrapped the requirement to register rental contracts with the federal government. This freedom created a diverse marketplace where tenants and landlords could forge voluntary, mutually beneficial agreements tailored to their needs.

The results, Llach says, are “a textbook case” for Milei’s deregulatory efforts. Zonaprop’s data showing a surge in supply of apartments is no anomaly; the Ministry of Deregulation’s report, based on Mercado Libre and Universidad de San Andrés data, shows that by June 2024, the rental housing supply was 212 percent higher than it was in December 2023 in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

Even with landlords freed to account for the uncertainties and risks of bad tenants and inflation, real rents have fallen.

Milei’s deregulation demonstrates that removing government from voluntary transactions can benefit both sides.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/javier-milei-ended-rent-control-now-argentine-re...

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A typical $1.8m property with $750,000 in land value and $45,000 in annual short-stay income, and left empty for more than six months, would now face $18,000 in Vacant Residential Land Tax from January, $3,725 in land tax and $3,375 in short-stay levies, bringing the total yearly hit to $25,100.

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