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.
Source · MBIE Tenancy Services — Q1 2026 · 16,641 bonds · Reviewed Aug 2026 · Method
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.
Source · MBIE Tenancy Services — Q1 2026 · Year-on-year, min. 40 bonds both quarters · Reviewed Aug 2026 · Method
| Remuera Waitaramoa | $993 |
| Glendowie | $967 |
| Campbells Bay | $955 |
| Turanga | $950 |
| Westmere South-Western Springs | $950 |
| Grafton | $295 |
| Panmure | $393 |
| The Strand | $399 |
| Alfriston | $450 |
| Symonds Street | $463 |
Source · MBIE Tenancy Services — Q1 2026 · Median weekly rent, all property types · Reviewed Aug 2026 · Method
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 →
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.
Median rent, six-year trends, bedroom and property-type breakdowns for 246 Auckland suburbs, from official bond records.
Browse all suburbs →Our companion tool reads Auckland Council planning data for any address: the zone, how many dwellings are allowed, granny-flat eligibility and flood overlays.
Check any Auckland address →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.
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