Financial burden on renters during a change of residence

Justin Tauber made this Freedom of Information request to WA Department of Commerce

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Justin Tauber

Dear WA Department of Commerce,

I am trying to determine the financial burden on renters during a change of residence, due to the need to lodge 2 bonds.

To that end, I would like to request the following information:

At some snapshot date during each year (see next field for requested date range):
* How many individual bonds were held on that date?
* What were the median and average values of bonds held on that date?
* What proportion of all renters with registered bonds had more than 1 bond registered in their name?
* For those individuals with more than one bond, what were the median and average values of the total bonds held for that individual?

Can you also please provide:
* the proportion of leases that terminate through eviction or other process that is non-voluntary for / not initiated by the renters?

I would like comparison data for the last 20 yrs.
Please provide all available data for any year between 1996 and 2016, inclusively.

Yours faithfully,
Justin Tauber

CP Call Centre, WA Department of Commerce

Dear Mr Tauber,

 

Thank you for your email which was directed to Consumer Protection from
the Online Services Helpdesk.

 

Your email has been forwarded to the Records Governance Team.

 

Should it be necessary, an officer will contact you in due course.

 

Kind regards,

 

Contact Centre Team

Senior Customer Service Officer, Contact Centre, Consumer Protection,

Department of Commerce, Western Australia

 

A Gordon Stephenson House 140 William Street, Perth P Locked Bag 14
Cloisters Square PO, PERTH 6850

E  [1][email address]  W  [2]www.commerce.wa.gov.au  

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CP Call Centre, WA Department of Commerce

Dear Mr. Strahan,

 

Thank you for your email.

 

You have contacted Consumer Protection at the Department of Commerce in
the state of Western Australia.

 

Your email has been forwarded to the Records Governance Team.

 

Should it be necessary, an officer will contact you in due course.

 

Kind regards,

 

Contact Centre Team

Senior Customer Service Officer, Contact Centre, Consumer Protection,

Department of Commerce, Western Australia

 

A Gordon Stephenson House 140 William Street, Perth

P Locked Bag 14 Cloisters Square PO, PERTH 6850

E [1][email address]  W [2]www.commerce.wa.gov.au

T 1300 304 054 Contact Centre

Twitter: @ConsumerWA

Facebook: [3]www.facebook.com/ConsumerProtectionWesternAustralia

You Tube: [4]www.youtube.com/ConsumerProtectionWA

 

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Carole Finn, WA Department of Commerce

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Dear Mr Tauber,

 

Thank you for your enquiry. Your mail has been passed onto me  as  the 
Manager  of the Bond Administration Branch and I reply as follows

 

Please be advised that the WA Bond Administrator is unable fulfil your
request of 20 years of historical comparison data as we do not regularly
report on the type of information you requested and no such historical
records exist.

 

Please find below the available information as of 30/03/2017.

 

* How many individual bonds were held on that date?

 

217910

 

* What were the median and average values of bonds held on that date?

 

Average: $1625.52

Median: $1540

 

* What proportion of all renters with registered bonds had more than 1
bond registered in their name?

 

1735 individual tenants had more than one bond registered against their
name. 

 

* For those individuals with more than one bond, what were the median and
average values of the total bonds held for that individual?

 

This level of detail cannot be reported on.

 

Can you also please provide:

 

* the proportion of leases that terminate through eviction or other
process that is non-voluntary for / not initiated by the renters?

 

No. Unlike other states, Residential Tenancy disputes are handled through
the Magistrates Court and the WA Bond Administrator is not privy to that
information.

 

I would like comparison data for the last 20 yrs.

Please provide all available data for any year between 1996 and 2016,
inclusively.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Carole Finn

Manager Bond Administration, Consumer Protection, Department of Commerce,
Western Australia

A Mason Bird Building Level 1 303 Sevenoaks St Cannington WA 6107

P Locked Bag 14 Cloisters Square PO, PERTH 6850

W [1]www.commerce.wa.gov.au/bonds  

T 1300 853 829 Bonds Enquiries

 

Real estate agents - [2]eTransactions save time and money – go to
[3]BondsOnline

 

Tenants - [4]iRentWA know your rights – download this free app on WA’s
tenancy laws

 

 

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Justin Tauber

Dear Carole,

Thanks very much.
I appreciate the quick response.
Please consider my request fulfilled.

Yours sincerely,
Justin Tauber

Carole Finn, WA Department of Commerce


Thank you for your email. I am away form the office until Thursday 6 April. and will reply when I return. If your email is urgent please forward to [email address]
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