Suburb rent · Featherston, South Wairarapa

What it costs to rent in Featherston

The normal flat in Featherston 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.

183 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

183

Rental properties

~$550/wk

Most pay $540 to $550

Approximate normal flat

+3.4% in a year

+120%

Growth, 10 years

+8.2% a year

+25%

Growth, 5 years

+4.6% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. Featherston spans 2 statistical areas, so the typical rent shown is approximate (a bond-weighted average).

How Featherston compares

vs South Wairarapa

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Featherston grew 120% over 10 years, against South Wairarapa’s 98%.

That is 22 points faster than South Wairarapa as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

Fifteen years of Featherston rent. The tilde (~) marks figures that are a close estimate, because Featherston is split across a few statistical areas and the rent is averaged across them.

~$550/wkapproximate normal flat, 2026
$100$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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