Median weekly bonded rent
$515
NZD per week · tenancy-start month
Official rental bond evidence
Manawatu District
rental statistics
Rental bond snapshot — August 2026
Manawatu District rental bond statistics
All bedrooms · All dwelling types
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This source combines all dwelling types and bedroom counts. Each location keeps its own source reporting period.
Reporting period: 1–31 August 2026.
Source published: 13 October 2026.
Historical bond evidence. Not current advertised rents. Newer figures appear after source verification and review. Provisional records may be incomplete or revised; growth comparisons are withheld.
Bonds in the selected sample
39
Source counts are randomly rounded
Middle 50% of weekly rents
$403–$588
Lower to upper quartile · NZD
This monthly release combines all dwelling types and bedroom counts. Bedroom-specific figures are not available from this source.
Understanding the source
Understanding Manawatu District rental evidence
Manawatu District: the median weekly rent recorded in newly lodged bonds was NZ$515 for all dwelling types, all bedroom counts, for tenancies that began between 1 and 31 August 2026. The reported sample was 39 bonds, randomly rounded by MBIE.
What does the Manawatu District rent sample include?
The all bedroom counts sample contains 39 reported newly lodged bonds across all dwelling types for tenancies that began between 1 and 31 August 2026. The middle 50% of recorded weekly rents falls between NZ$403 and NZ$588. Counts are randomly rounded. Dwelling types and bedroom counts are combined in this monthly release; it is not a house-only or bedroom-specific rent estimate.
Which area do the Manawatu District figures cover?
Manawatu District is the district-wide aggregate published by MBIE. It is not a town-only or suburb estimate.
How recent is this rental evidence?
The reporting window is 1–31 August 2026. Based on bond records for tenancies that began between 1 and 31 August 2026. The source was published on 13 October 2026. It records a completed bond-reporting period, rather than rents being advertised today. Source publication follows the reporting period. Newer figures appear after source verification and review.
Can this tell me what to ask for my property in Manawatu District?
The NZ$515 median describes this all bedroom counts bond sample; it is not a rental appraisal. Current asking rents, a property's condition and its precise location can differ from the sample. National data coverage does not mean New Zealand Realty offers property services in every location. Contact the team to discuss service availability. Monthly and annual rent changes are withheld while source comparability is under review.
Compare cities and districts
This page covers 1–31 August 2026, all dwelling types and all bedrooms. Check that the comparison table shows the same reporting month before comparing.
The table describes whole official council areas, not individual suburbs. Property mixes differ; these figures are not a ranking.
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Each page names its official source area and reporting period. Monthly figures and Wellington's three-month figures describe different samples and must not be treated as a like-for-like comparison.
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Behind the numbers
What the median tells you
The median is the middle rent in the source sample. Half of the sampled rents are at or below it and half are at or above it. It describes the homes in that sample; it is not a valuation of an individual property.
Bonded and advertised rents are different
These rents come from newly lodged rental bonds. They are not current asking rents, the rent of every existing tenancy, or evidence that a property advertised elsewhere has been let.
Keep the geography in view
Manawatu District is the district-wide aggregate published by MBIE. It is not a town-only or suburb estimate.
Source and provenance
- Source
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment — Tenancy Services
- Source area
- Manawatu District
- Reporting period
- 1–31 August 2026
- Sample basis
- Based on bond records for tenancies that began between 1 and 31 August 2026. All dwelling types and bedrooms. The month is not the date a bond was processed.
- Source published
- 13 October 2026
- Source retrieved
- 3 November 2026
- Licence
- Crown copyright, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand
Statistics are read from the validated source snapshot.
Coverage, sample checks and limitations
- Weekly rents are NZD amounts recorded in newly lodged private-sector bonds, not advertised rents, all existing tenancies or a property valuation.
- Monthly figures are grouped by tenancy start date, not the date a bond was processed.
- This monthly publication combines all dwelling types and bedroom counts. It does not support a property-type or bedroom filter.
- Counts are randomly rounded by MBIE. They may not sum to the published total. Bands below 10 reported lodged bonds are withheld.
- National and regional medians are the provider’s own aggregates. Missing local geography is included in the national total and is not assigned to a region.
- Manawatu District is the district-wide aggregate published by MBIE. It is not a town-only or suburb estimate.
- Tenancy Services advises that bond data is provisional during its system migration. Recent releases may be incomplete, revised or not directly comparable with earlier periods. Changes and market explanations are withheld pending comparability review.
- This is an explicitly imported dated MBIE publication. It is refreshed through a reviewed import, and is withheld once the reporting period is more than 120 days old.
Property-specific advice
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Rental data covers New Zealand. New Zealand Realty's property services may not cover every location. Contact the team to discuss service availability for your property.
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