Suburb rent · Chatswood, Auckland

What it costs to rent in Chatswood

The normal flat in Chatswood rents for about $960 a week. Here is how that has grown over 15 years, how it stacks up against the rest of Auckland, and what tenants who have lived here say.

1 reviews3.0 average ratingUpdated Jan 2026

171

Rental properties

$960/wk

Most pay $850 to $1013

Normal flat

+20% in a year

+41%

Growth, 10 years

+3.5% a year

+32%

Growth, 5 years

+5.6% a year

Flatchat coverage

20 of about 171 rental properties in Chatswood are on Flatchat.

About 12% of the market covered so far. Lived in one we have missed? Add it.

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. Typical rent for Chatswood is exact.

How Chatswood compares

vs Auckland

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Chatswood 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 Chatswood rent from government bond records. The line is what the normal flat rents for; the band shows the range most people pay.

$960/wknormal flat, 2026

$100$200$300$400$500$600$700$800$900$1000$1100

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.