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Tenancy Tribunal case 5489552 — Tenancy dispute
Decided 5 May 2026 · Published 5 May 2026 · Application 5489552
Party names are redacted in the official published order. This page summarises the dispute only — not individual identities.
At a glance
Key facts from the published tribunal order.
Adjudicator
J Yi
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
- An application for suppression has been made in this case, and the Tribunal orders suppression of the names and identifying details of both parties.
- [The landlord/s] is granted possession of the premises at [Tenancy address suppressed] immediately.
Reasons
- The applicant attended the hearing via videoconference. The tenant did not.
- The landlord has applied for possession of the premises under section 65 Residential Tenancies Act 1986 (“RTA”).
- The respondent had a conditional right to occupy the premises. However, those conditions were no longer being met by the respondent and therefore, I am satisfied that the respondent no longer has any right to occupy the premises.
- I apply the same reasoning from the District Court cases cited by the applicant. The cases are Henderson v Douglas DC Tauranga TT 418/03, 21 October 2003 and Chou v Chou [2016] NZDC 15768.
- The applicant has proven that the applicant is entitled to possession of the premises.
- Therefore, under section 65 of the RTA, I grant immediate possession of the premises to the applicant.