Rent prices in New Zealand
What rooms, shared rooms and whole places cost in each city, from live listings on Flathive. Pick a city to see every suburb and postcode. Updated 30 October 2026.
Median rent by city
Weekly rent by city
| City | Rooms | Whole places |
|---|---|---|
| Auckland | $260$200–$350 | $580$310–$950 |
| Wellington | $262$200–$399 | $495$345–$1,080 |
| Christchurch | $230$200–$350 | — |
| Hamilton | $245$191–$320 | — |
| Dunedin | $220$183–$280 | — |
| Saint Johns | $250$230–$320 | — |
Median weekly rent, with the typical range below it (the middle 80% of rents). Shared rooms are per person. “—” means fewer than 5 listings of that type.
Common questions
- Which city in New Zealand has the cheapest rooms?
- Of the cities with enough listings on Flathive, Dunedin has the lowest median room rent ($220 a week) and Wellington the highest ($262 a week).
- How are these rent prices worked out?
- Every day we take the rent of each published listing on Flathive: each room's rent for rooms, the whole rent for whole places. We show the median (the middle rent) and the typical range (the middle 80% of rents). A city or postcode is only shown once it has at least 5 rents of that type.