The Government will end no-cause evictions and ban rental bidding in an upcoming reset of rental laws.

It will also limit rent rises to once a year, up from the current limit of once every six months.

These changes will be made well over a year since then-Housing Minister Phil Twyford finished consulting on them in October 2018.

Virginia Woolf Rent rises will be limited to once a year.

They will be announced at an event later on Sunday, alongside a wider package of reform, by new Public Housing Minister Kris Faafoi, who has responsibility for rental laws.

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"These reforms of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 (RTA) deliver on the Government's promise to address out-dated rules for rental accommodation, and are part of our plan, in conjunction with our coalition partners, to improve wellbeing for many new Zealanders who rent their homes," Kris Faafoi said in a statement to Stuff.

Currently landlords can end periodic tenancies without cause as long as they give tenants 90 days of notice. If a landlord wishes to move in to or sell the property that notice period can be halved to 42 days.

Under the Government's planned changes landlords will have to provide some reason to end the tenancy - including selling the property, demolishing it, or changing how it is used. They will also be able to use a new "anti-social behaviour" clause to move on problematic tenants if three complaints are received about the tenant's behaviour in a 90-day period and an application is made to the tenancy tribunal.

Rent being paid more than five working days late three times or more in a 90-day period would also be a valid reason, although this too would require a trip to the tribunal.

When a tenancy is ended for a valid reason, such as a landlord selling a house, they will now need to provide 63 days of notice - up from 42.

Rent rises will be limited to once a year, up from six months now.

GETTY IMAGES Public Housing Minister Kris Faafoi will announce the changes later today.

And "rental bidding" would be explicitly banned, and landlords listing properties will have to explicitly set out what the rent is.

Serious changes to rental laws were a key feature of Labour's campaign, which focused heavily on housing.

After coming to Government the party moved swiftly to ban letting fees pass "healthy homes" standards for rental properties, although these have not kicked in yet.

It's understood Faafoi has been concerned about getting the "balance" right, modernising tenancy laws without being seen to unduly punishing landlords.

A Labour campaign proposal to require all tenancy agreements to set out how rent increases may be calculated in future years with a formula appears to have been ditched.

Officials warned then-minister Twyford that large scale reform of tenancy laws may cause landlords to perceive that they are "under attack" and sell their homes to owner-occupiers. Because owner-occupiers typically have less people in a house than renters do, this could drive up rents.

The number of New Zealanders living in rentals has grown significantly in recent years as house prices in urban areas have soared.

There are more than 600,000 rental households in New Zealand, up from 453,000 in 2013 and 388,000 in 2006. The proportion of households that rent has risen from 27 per cent in 1999 to 32 per cent now - and rental households generally have more people in them than owner-occupied housing.