Suburb rent · Whalers Gate, New Plymouth

What it costs to rent in Whalers Gate

The normal flat in Whalers Gate rents for about $680 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.

72 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

Rental properties

$680/wk

Most pay $615 to $743

Normal flat

-15% in a year

+66%

Growth, 10 years

+5.2% a year

+23%

Growth, 5 years

+4.1% a year

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

How Whalers Gate compares

vs New Plymouth

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Whalers Gate grew 66% over 10 years, against New Plymouth’s 79%.

That is 13 points slower than New Plymouth as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

$680/wknormal flat, 2026

$300$400$500$600$700$800$900

201120192026

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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