When renting a property, you may be asked to pay a bond before moving in. This is a refundable amount of money, and there are rules about how much it should be, who you pay it to and how to retrieve it.

In this section:

About rental bonds
provides information on how much bond to pay, how to pay your bond, and how to get your bond back.

How to get your bond back (making a claim)
provides information on how to get your bond back, what to do when you cannot agree with your agent/landlord, what to do in a shared tenancy, Director of Housing bond loans, and what to do when the tenant is deceased.

Tenant Transfer
covers what to do when there is a change of tenants during the course of a tenancy.

Frequently Asked Questions
lists frequently asked questions and answers about rental bonds.

Find an uncashed bond repayment
provides information on identifying ownership of and applying for unclaimed bond money.