Suburb rent · City Centre, Invercargill

What it costs to rent in City Centre

The normal flat in City Centre rents for about $400 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.

291 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

291

Rental properties

$400/wk

Most pay $225 to $450

Normal flat

+0% in a year

+145%

Growth, 10 years

+9.4% a year

+38%

Growth, 5 years

+6.6% a year

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

How City Centre compares

vs Invercargill

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in City Centre grew 145% over 10 years, against Invercargill’s 94%.

That is 51 points faster than Invercargill as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

$400/wknormal flat, 2026

$0$100$200$300$400$500

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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