Suburb rent · Melling, Lower Hutt

What it costs to rent in Melling

The normal flat in Melling 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.

312 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

312

Rental properties

$580/wk

Most pay $500 to $730

Normal flat

+0.9% in a year

+93%

Growth, 10 years

+6.8% a year

+16%

Growth, 5 years

+3% a year

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

How Melling compares

vs Lower Hutt

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Melling grew 93% over 10 years, against Lower Hutt’s 75%.

That is 18 points faster than Lower Hutt as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

Fifteen years of Melling 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
$100$200$300$400$500$600$700$800
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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