Suburb rent · Highfield, Timaru

What it costs to rent in Highfield

The normal flat in Highfield rents for about $475 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.

138 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

138

Rental properties

$475/wk

Most pay $460 to $630

Normal flat

-8.7% in a year

+56%

Growth, 10 years

+4.5% a year

+25%

Growth, 5 years

+4.6% a year

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

How Highfield compares

vs Timaru

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Highfield grew 56% over 10 years, against Timaru’s 62%.

That is 6 points slower than Timaru as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

$475/wknormal flat, 2026

$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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