Suburb rent · Otumoetai, Tauranga

What it costs to rent in Otumoetai

The normal flat in Otumoetai rents for about $675 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.

705 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

705

Rental properties

~$675/wk

Most pay $626 to $750

Approximate normal flat

+2% in a year

+62%

Growth, 10 years

+4.9% a year

+23%

Growth, 5 years

+4.3% a year

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

How Otumoetai compares

vs Tauranga

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Otumoetai grew 62% over 10 years, against Tauranga’s 71%.

That is 9 points slower than Tauranga as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

~$675/wkapproximate normal flat, 2026

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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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