Stronger protections have been introduced for people entering into a site agreement at a residential park (Part 4A park).
These reforms are from changes to the Residential Tenancies and Funerals Amendment Act 2024 and the Residential Tenancies Amendment (Housing Statement Reform and Part 4A Site Agreements) Regulations 2025.
Standard site agreements
All new site agreements must use a standard form agreement from 1 July 2026. This will make agreements easier to understand and compare.
The standard form Part 4A site agreement is available to download and must be used from 1 July 2026.
More information for prospective site tenants
From 1 July 2026, site owners must provide more information to prospective site tenants before they enter into an agreement.
Site owners must use a specific ‘notice to prospective site tenants’ form to do this. New information required includes:
- how much rent they must pay and when it is due
- how rent increases work and when they can happen
- a projection of what the rent would be after 1, 2, 5 and 10 years under each fixed-increase method in the agreement
- what services and facilities are available at the park, any costs or rules for using them and park operating hours
- whether there is a site tenants’ committee at the park
- whether the park is in a bushfire prone area and details of any emergency plan in place
- a contact for urgent site repairs (owner's or agent's name, address for service and phone number, and any agent authority limit)
- information about keeping pets on the site
- information about the park’s dispute resolution processes, and
- information to help the site tenant if they later want to make modifications, assign the site agreement, or sell their dwelling.
These new requirements are reflected in the updated Notice to prospective site tenant. This updated form must be used from 1 July 2026.
More information for prospective site tenants
Clearer rules about rent increases
Site tenants will have clearer information about how rent increases will be calculated.
Site agreements often state that rent increases will be based on increases in the ‘Consumer Price Index’ (CPI). It is not always clear what CPI is being referred to.
Site owners must now identify a specific measure. Otherwise, the all groups CPI for Melbourne, published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, will apply.
This ensures that site tenants have a clear understanding of how a rent increase will be calculated rather than being left to guess which measure of CPI a site owner will apply.