On 23 May 2024, Queensland Parliament passed amendments to the Manufactured Homes (Residential Parks) Act 2003 to improve consumer protection, and address concerns about site rent increases and sales in residential parks.

Despite a long period of consultation, the Crisafulli Government is now delaying some of these important protections, including:

• Requiring Park owners to prepare maintenance and capital replacement plans and provide them to homeowners.
• Standardising site agreements by requiring new agreements to be in an approved form, giving home buyers clearer and fairer terms.

• Requiring Park owners to streamline and simplify the sales process for manufactured homes to make transactions faster and easier.

The reforms were due to start in June 2025 but have now been delayed by a full year.

It’s disappointing that it will now take longer for these reforms to start, especially since over 2,650 homeowners had their say through consultation.

The changes were designed to address problems like site rent increases, unclear contractual terms, lack of maintenance transparency, and residents being financially trapped into paying site rent even after leaving their homes.  

To sign the petition click here: Manufactured Home Resident Action