SuburbIQ
Q1 2026 · 246 Auckland suburbs

What it really costs
to rent in your suburb.

Every landlord in New Zealand must lodge a tenancy bond. That makes the bond register the most honest record of the rental market we have — it captures what tenants actually agreed to pay, not what a listing hoped for. SuburbIQ turns it into one clear page per Auckland suburb.

Auckland median
$622
Q1 2026, all property types
Bonds analysed
16,641
tenancies started this quarter
Suburbs covered
246
six years of history each
Rent range
$295–$993
cheapest to dearest suburb
01

Where rents moved most

Change in median weekly rent against the same quarter a year earlier. Limited to suburbs with at least 40 new bonds in both quarters, so a handful of tenancies can't distort the picture.

Rising fastest

Saint Heliers +22.5% $936
Epsom Central-North +21.4% $838
Mount Roskill +17.7% $763
Mission Bay +14.6% $800

Falling fastest

Panmure -35.4% $393
Mount St John -19.4% $580
Epsom -18.1% $508
Three Kings -16.4% $606
Mission Heights -15.3% $711
02

The extremes

Some low medians reflect a suburb's property mix rather than cheap housing — student areas with many single rooms sit near the bottom. Each suburb page breaks this down. See all 246 suburbs →

03

Rent is half the picture

What a property earns is one question. What you are allowed to do with the land is the other — and in Auckland the two have never been further apart.

SuburbIQ — what it rents for

Median rent, six-year trends, bedroom and property-type breakdowns for 246 Auckland suburbs, from official bond records.

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PropertyScope — what you can build

Our companion tool reads Auckland Council planning data for any address: the zone, how many dwellings are allowed, granny-flat eligibility and flood overlays.

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Where this data comes from

Bond lodgements are published quarterly by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment as open data. It is an unusually honest picture of the rental market, because it records agreed rents rather than asking prices.

SuburbIQ maps each statistical area to the suburb people actually use, combines them where a suburb spans several, and publishes the result. Read the full methodology, including where our figures differ slightly from MBIE's own headline numbers and why.

Know what your property is really worth

Amit Sharma is an award-winning Auckland real-estate agent. If you are weighing up renting out, buying an investment, or selling, get a free appraisal grounded in the same local data you see here.

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