Suburb rent · Riversdale, Blenheim

What it costs to rent in Riversdale

The normal flat in Riversdale rents for about $560 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.

99 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

99

Rental properties

$560/wk

Most pay $470 to $570

Normal flat

+12% in a year

+65%

Growth, 10 years

+5.1% a year

+27%

Growth, 5 years

+4.9% a year

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

How Riversdale compares

vs Blenheim

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Riversdale grew 65% over 10 years, against Blenheim’s 83%.

That is 18 points slower than Blenheim as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

Fifteen years of Riversdale rent from government bond records. The line is what the normal flat rents for; the band shows the range most people pay.

$560/wknormal flat, 2026
$100$200$300$400$500$600$700
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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