{ "publisher": "DwellDelta, a service of Xcelerent Pty Ltd", "built": "2026-11-03", "country": "NZ", "country_name": "New Zealand", "area_kind": "territorial_authority", "what": "New Zealand rents by territorial authority and region: MBIE's median weekly rent of the bonds for private tenancies that began in the month (counted by tenancy start date), in New Zealand dollars", "month": "2026-08", "month_words": "August 2026", "compared_with": null, "currency": "NZD", "unit": "NZD per week", "source": "Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (New Zealand), Tenancy Services rental bond data: bonds for private tenancies that began each month (counted by tenancy start date) and their weekly rents, by territorial authority and region.", "licence": "CC BY 3.0 NZ", "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/", "rights_holder": "The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment", "source_notice": "https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/about-tenancy-services/data-and-statistics/rental-bond-data/", "attribution": "Source: The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Tenancy Services rental bond data (August 2026), licensed under CC BY 3.0 NZ. Selected and reformatted by DwellDelta.", "changes_made": "DwellDelta keeps the latest month of MBIE's monthly files by territorial authority and region, renames the columns, and leaves out the bonds MBIE could not place. Every figure is MBIE's; none is recalculated.", "provisional": true, "limits": [ "MBIE's figures for PRIVATE bonds for tenancies that began in the month (new tenancies with private landlords, by tenancy start date) - not advertised rents, and not what sitting tenants pay. One month only: a small area's median can move a long way from one month to the next.", "MBIE rounds every count by fixed random rounding to base 3, and publishes nothing where fewer than 5 bonds were lodged: such a row has no figures and says withheld. Rows resting on fewer than 30 bonds are flagged small_sample.", "MBIE says the data remain provisional while bonds move to a new system: figures may be incomplete or revised, may reflect system changes rather than underlying trends, and recent months may not be directly comparable with earlier periods. While its page says so, change_pct and year_ago_median_nzd are null (change_withheld says why).", "The latest month can be revised the next month, as bonds lodged late are recorded (landlords have 23 working days to lodge a bond, and processing can take 10 to 15 more).", "Rents cluster at round amounts, so a median can sit still for months and then jump NZ$10 or NZ$20. MBIE offers the geometric mean as its measure for time series, and quartiles calculated on the same basis; its files label them 'Lower Quartile Rent' and 'Upper Quartile Rent', and values such as NZ$394 suggest these are those calculated quartiles, not the 25th and 75th percentile of the rents lodged.", "A median moves with the mix of homes let: a change can be new apartments or a different mix of homes, not rents rising for the same homes.", "Areas are MBIE's territorial authorities (city and district councils; Auckland is the whole Auckland Council area) and regions. A bond whose address MBIE could not place is in the national figure and in no area or region: bonds_not_placed counts them for the month, and the areas add up to the country, within MBIE's rounding of each count on its own, only with them.", "Amounts are New Zealand dollars per week (every field ending _nzd), not Australian dollars: never set them beside an Australian feed's _aud figures without converting.", "Information, not financial or tenancy advice." ], "national": { "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 595, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 575, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 500, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 700, "new_bonds": 13062, "active_bonds": 522942, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": false }, "bonds_not_placed": 1554, "regions": [ { "region": "Auckland Region", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 650, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 634, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 550, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 765, "new_bonds": 4644, "active_bonds": 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Region", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 600, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 559, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 513, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 690, "new_bonds": 288, "active_bonds": 10659, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": false }, { "region": "Manawatu-Wanganui Region", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 520, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 491, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 430, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 590, "new_bonds": 531, "active_bonds": 19881, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": false }, { "region": "Marlborough Region", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 560, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 512, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 500, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 600, "new_bonds": 72, "active_bonds": 2610, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": false }, { "region": "Nelson Region", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 520, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 495, 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348, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": true }, { "area": "Whakatane District", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 580, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 519, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 470, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 650, "new_bonds": 48, "active_bonds": 1974, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": false }, { "area": "Whanganui District", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 510, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 519, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 450, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 600, "new_bonds": 111, "active_bonds": 3771, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": false }, { "area": "Whangarei District", "median_weekly_rent_nzd": 580, "geometric_mean_weekly_rent_nzd": 535, "lower_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 495, "upper_quartile_weekly_rent_nzd": 650, "new_bonds": 180, "active_bonds": 7014, "year_ago_median_nzd": null, "change_pct": null, "small_sample": false } ], "change_withheld": "MBIE says the data remain provisional while bonds move to a new system, and that recent figures may not be directly comparable with earlier periods - so no change on a year is given" }