Suburb rent · Welcome Bay, Tauranga

What it costs to rent in Welcome Bay

The normal flat in Welcome Bay rents for about $695 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.

660 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

660

Rental properties

~$695/wk

Most pay $616 to $747

Approximate normal flat

+2.7% in a year

+70%

Growth, 10 years

+5.4% a year

+27%

Growth, 5 years

+4.9% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. Welcome Bay spans 5 statistical areas, so the typical rent shown is approximate (a bond-weighted average).

How Welcome Bay compares

vs Tauranga

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Welcome Bay grew 70% over 10 years, against Tauranga’s 71%.

That is 1 points slower than Tauranga as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

~$695/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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