Suburb rent · Otatara, Invercargill

What it costs to rent in Otatara

The normal flat in Otatara rents for about $550 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.

48 rental propertiesUpdated Jul 2025

Rental properties

$550/wk

Most pay $450 to $650

Normal flat

+13.4% in a year

+64%

Growth, 10 years

+5.1% a year

+20%

Growth, 5 years

+3.6% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jul 2025. Typical rent for Otatara is exact.

How Otatara compares

vs Invercargill

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Otatara grew 64% over 10 years, against Invercargill’s 94%.

That is 30 points slower than Invercargill as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

$550/wknormal flat, 2025

$200$300$400$500$600$700

201120162025

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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