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Tenancy Tribunal case 5332500 — Tenancy dispute at 36 Golden Morning Drive, Albany Heights, Auckland 0632
Decided 20 Nov 2025 · Published 20 Nov 2025 · Application 5332500
At a glance
Key facts from the published tribunal order.
Location
Auckland
Tribunal region
Claims & awards
What this tenancy cost at tribunal — claim, category, amount, and party awarded, with reconciled net total.
No individual claim amounts were reconciled for this order. View the official Ministry of Justice PDF for full detail.
Order
- The Bond Centre is to pay the bond of $2,200.00 to [The tenant/s] immediately.
Reasons
- Both parties attended the hearing. The landlord was represented by Candice and the tenant, who is now living in China, attended the hearing via Candice’s phone because he was unable to connect to wifi.
- The tenant has applied to the Tribunal for a return of the bond he paid at the beginning of the tenancy.
- Section 22B(2) of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 provides that if the tenant applies to the Tribunal and the landlord seeks payment of the bond in whole or in part, the landlord must file an application with the Tribunal that sets out the landlord’s counterclaim.
- At today’s hearing the landlord set out their reasons for keeping part of the bond.
- However, the provisions of s22B(2) are clear – if the landlord has not made a counterclaim then the Tribunal must return the bond in full to the tenant. C ter Haar 20 November 2025