Suburb rent · Browns Bay, Auckland

What it costs to rent in Browns Bay

The normal flat in Browns Bay rents for about $758 a week, from government bond records. No one has reviewed a flat here yet, but the rent figures still tell you what living in the area costs.

1,527 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

1,527

Rental properties

~$758/wk

Most pay $662 to $831

Approximate normal flat

+6.9% in a year

+41%

Growth, 10 years

+3.5% a year

+20%

Growth, 5 years

+3.8% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. Browns Bay spans 5 statistical areas, so the typical rent shown is approximate (a bond-weighted average).

How Browns Bay compares

vs Auckland

How rent here measures up against the wider city, so you can tell whether Browns Bay is dearer, cheaper, or rising faster than Auckland as a whole.

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Browns Bay grew 41% over 10 years, against Auckland’s 33%.

That is 8 points faster than Auckland as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

Fifteen years of Browns Bay rent. The tilde (~) marks figures that are a close estimate, because Browns Bay is split across a few statistical areas and the rent is averaged across them.

~$758/wkapproximate normal flat, 2026

$300$400$500$600$700$800$900

201120182026

What the normal flat rentsWhere most rents fall

Rents jump every January because that is when most student flats sign new leases for the year, and brand new tenancies rent higher than the standing stock. The line settles back by autumn. Source: MBIE bond data.

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