New Zealand · rent trends from official bond data
Where rents sit, and how they move.
Three decades of New Zealand rent trends, charted from official tenancy bonds: the median, the quartiles and the sample behind every point. Real rents over time, not asking prices.
The national picture · April–June 2026
$600national median /wk
National median up 0.2% over the year (+$1/wk).
New Zealand's median weekly rent was $600 in April–June 2026. Half of new tenancies fell between $490 and $700 a week, across 40,827 bonds lodged. Across the 689 suburbs with enough lodged bonds to rank, the published median rent for all rentals rose in 267, held roughly steady in 182 and eased in 240 over the year to April–June 2026. Melville North climbed hardest (+53.1%); Kelston North moved furthest the other way (-41.9%).
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