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Public housing landlord ordered to pay $11,200 in costs after failing to hand over documents (NTCAT, 2026)
After years of litigation over whether two remote public housing homes were habitable, the estates of the two tenants asked for $135,385.22 in legal costs against the landlord. NTCAT ordered the landlord…
Read Guide →Landlord must return the full $2,320 bond but wins $2,183 for rent arrears, cleaning and repairs (NTCAT, 2026)
A Darwin share house ended with a dispute over the bond, unpaid rent, damage and a dirty garden, and the landlord applied…
Read Guide →Body corporate awarded $5,793.85 in unpaid levies, but $3,178 of its legal costs cut (NTCAT, 2026)
A unit owner in a Darwin apartment block fell behind on his or her quarterly body corporate contributions, admitted the debt in…
Read Guide →Certifier ordered to pay $4,026 after approving outdated plans for the wrong house (ACAT, 2026)
An owner builder paid a licensed building certifier $3,300 to take over certification of a part-built home, but the certifier approved three-year-old…
Read Guide →Tenant freed from a share-house lease, but tribunal had no power to award him compensation (ACAT, 2026)
A tenant in a three-bedroom share house asked to leave the lease and put a replacement housemate in his place, and the…
Read Guide →Owners corporation ordered to pay $178 after telling a unit owner to repair his own mailbox (ACAT, 2026)
A unit owner took his owners corporation to the tribunal over insurance decisions, a roof report he paid a share of, and…
Read Guide →Landlord’s $15,000 claim against Defence Housing Australia dismissed: a company is not a tenant (ACAT, 2026)
A Canberra property owner leased his house to Defence Housing Australia for Defence families and later claimed repair work and $15,000 compensation…
Read Guide →Occupant’s bid for CCTV rules against an owners corporation and strata manager dismissed (ACAT, 2026)
An occupant of a unit complex asked the tribunal to declare that the owners corporation and its strata manager had mishandled CCTV…
Read Guide →Tribunal dismisses tenant’s $6,914 claim for a motorbike stolen from a strata carpark (ACAT, 2026)
A tenant's motorbike was stolen from the basement carpark of a Canberra unit complex during a period when the garage roller door…
Read Guide →Landlords keep the full $2,577 bond after floor damage and a dishwasher left behind (ACAT, 2026)
A tenant who had worked as a cultural attaché argued that diplomatic immunity put the dispute beyond the tribunal's reach, and that…
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