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Is my rent fair?

Compare your rent, and any increase you have been asked for, with how rents across your capital city have moved since your current rent began. Give a NSW postcode as well, and see where it sits among new bonds for the same kind of home. Nothing you type leaves your browser unless you choose to add your rent.

Your rent

Capital city

Month your current rent began
your last rise, or the lease start if none

Current rent, per week ($)

Proposed new rent, per week ($) optional

The home optional · New South Wales

NSW postcode

Home type

Bedrooms

Adds where your rent sits among new bonds for the same kind of home in that postcode. Leave it empty and you still get the city-wide comparison.

The latest ABS figures

How rents have moved in each capital

The ABS rents index, over the year to September 2026. It tracks what tenants pay across new and continuing leases. It is not a dollar rent and not an advertised rent.

Capital city	Change over the year
Adelaide	+4.0%
Brisbane	+4.6%
Canberra	+1.4%
Darwin	+6.5%
Hobart	+3.2%
Melbourne	+2.5%
Perth	+5.3%
Sydney	+3.5%

Straight about the data

What this cannot tell you

For median rents by postcode, suburb or locality in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, see Rents and sale prices by area.

For the rules on rent increases where you live, see your state's tenancy authority. In NSW that is NSW Fair Trading.

Source

ABS Consumer Price Index (6401.0), Table 10: rents index by capital city, monthly, original. The monthly series begins 2022-07 with the ABS monthly CPI indicator. Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, CC BY 4.0. Latest month in the index: September 2026 (ABS release sep-2026).

Rents by postcode: NSW Department of Communities and Justice, Rent and Sales Report, CC BY 4.0. Read only when you give a postcode.