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Tenancy Tribunal case 9054884 — Unit Titles in East Tamaki, Auckland

Decided 1 Apr 2025 · Published 1 Apr 2025 · Application 9054884

Unit Titles
Costs

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At a glance

Key facts from the published tribunal order.

Location

Auckland

Tribunal region

Adjudicator

R Morgan

Claims & awards

Tenantcheck Insights · Case study

Tenancy Tribunal case 9054884 — Unit Titles in East Tamaki, Auckland

Decided 1 Apr 2025 · Published 1 Apr 2025 · Application 9054884

Unit Titles
Costs

View official order on MoJ →Explore similar cases

At a glance

Key facts from the published tribunal order.

Location

Auckland

Tribunal region

Adjudicator

R Morgan

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

Futuristic Trustees Limited must pay Body Corporate 208493 $3,570.33 immediately being the costs awarded on this application.

Reasons

On 24 October 2024, the Tribunal made Orders in respect of the Body Corporate’s application for enforcement of the Body Corporate Rules.
Costs were reserved. The Tribunal made directions for making any submissions in relation to costs. Extensions were then granted.
Both parties have made submissions but neither submission is fulsome.
The Body Corporate sought $3,570.33 being the “reasonable costs incurred” and provided evidence of time records. It did not make any submission as to why indemnity costs should be awarded in this case. Neither parties’ submissions addressed issues which would assist the Tribunal in the exercise of a discretion in relation to costs.
However, I allow the body corporate’s claim for actual and reasonable costs incurred under section 127 Unit Titles Act 2010 (‘UTA’).
Section 127 UTA provides that any expense incurred by the body corporate in
doing an act that was rendered necessary by reason of any breach of the Act, the body corporate operational rules, or any regulations by, any unit owner together with any reasonable costs in collecting the expense, is recoverable as a debt due to the body corporate by the unit owner at the time proceedings are instituted.
I am satisfied that the costs sought by the body corporate constitutes the doing of work, or act that was rendered necessary by reason of the respondent’s breach of the Body Corporate Rules. See Law and Others v Body Corporate 406198 [2021] NZTT Auckland 9023361.

Topics & place

Topics are dispute themes across the order (not the same as claim-type money lines).

Unit Titles Costs Auckland

Residential Tenancies Act sections

s0800, s127

Key findings

Dispute theme: unit titles
Dispute theme: costs

Property management

FUTURISTIC TRUSTEES LIMITED (respondent)

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this Tenancy Tribunal case.

What was Tenancy Tribunal case 9054884 about?

The tribunal order states: Futuristic Trustees Limited must pay Body Corporate 208493 $3,570.33

How much money was awarded in case 9054884?

Verified claim lines are listed on this page.

What type of tenancy dispute was case 9054884?

The primary dispute was Unit Titles. Related themes: Costs.

Where can I read the official tribunal order for case 9054884?

The official Ministry of Justice published order is available at https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/TTV2/PDF/11656222-Tribunal_Order.pdf.