19 February 2025
Ref: DOIA-REQ-0007477
Luke Dixon
Emai
l: [FYI request #29514 email] Tēnā koe Luke
Thank you for your email of 10 December 2024 to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982, the following information:
Please supply me with an Excel spreadsheet containing all rental bond data covering the time
period 1 January 2015 to the current date, where:
1. One tab in the excel spreadsheet contains the data in the following format
2. The columns in each tab are:
- The SA1 location ID
- The name of the SA1 location
- The type of property house, flat etc
- The number of bedrooms in the property
- The date the bond was lodged
- The rent price per week of the property the bond was lodged for
- An indicator to show if the row is a new bond lodgement or an existing bond topup
3. Each row represents either one bond lodged or a bond that was topped up because the rent
was increased
Please find this excel spreadsheet attached.
The column labelled ‘weekly rent’ is based on the weekly rent recorded for each property as of 12
February 2025. Any previously recorded or older recorded weekly rent will not be recorded. Where
spaces are blank or record ‘null data’, there was no information provided or recorded at this time.
Additionally, any ID beginning with ‘AB’ corresponds to data from the newer system.
Please note there are a large quantity of payments that do not have a listed TLA Code or Location
attached to the payment record/property address at this time. This is due to manually created addresses
in the new bond system, Abode. These have been listed at the bottom of the 2024-2025 page. These will
be updated in due course with further system updates, but are not currently ready for release.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request or this response, or if you require any further assistance,
please contact
[email address].
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information
about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802
602.
Nāku noa, nā
Ota Savaiinaea
Operations Manager Tenancy Bond Services
Building and Tenancy
