Suburb rent · Tainui, Dunedin

What it costs to rent in Tainui

The normal flat in Tainui rents for about $580 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.

123 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

123

Rental properties

$580/wk

Most pay $483 to $640

Normal flat

-3% in a year

+68%

Growth, 10 years

+5.3% a year

+28%

Growth, 5 years

+5% a year

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

How Tainui compares

vs Dunedin

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Tainui grew 68% over 10 years, against Dunedin’s 79%.

That is 11 points slower than Dunedin as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

$580/wknormal flat, 2026

$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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