Furnished rentals for an early-2027 move-in · for-sale market tracked as context · no search today (2 of 2 weekly runs used Oct 19–20); tiles held from the Oct 20 search. Next search Mon Oct 26.
Throttled Wed Oct 21: no new search (week_runs is already 2 for the week starting Oct 19). The tiles below are as of the Oct 20 search (run 2 of 2 this week). nz-rentals-last-updated.txt was last_run: 2026-10-19, week_runs: 1, week_start: 2026-10-19. Only myRent Auckland Central index pages 1 and 2 were re-read; rural, houseboat and for-sale tiles are held from earlier runs and need a recheck before you contact anyone. Prior build: _archive/2026-10-21/nz-rentals.html.
What moved since Oct 19: nothing on price. Held at the same rent: 306/138 Anzac $360, 1009/22 Nelson $640, 10B/125A Hobson $650, 1407/6 Lorne $700, 305/53 Cook $540, 4E/2 Eden Crescent $575, 511/8 Ronayne $600, 508/105 Queen $565, 1311/72 Nelson $350. Newly visible but not added (not opened, so allergy and broadband facts unknown): 22 Pakenham Street East $895 (2 bed, furnished per the index text), and a $550 “Sunny 2-Bedroom Apartment” listed as partly furnished. The eight tiles not seen on index pages 1–2 on Oct 19 are still not seen (401/74 Albert, 612/147 Nelson, 1105/207 Federal, 425/105 Queen, 711/72 Nelson, 1504/74 Albert, 7A/77 Victoria St West, 708/135 Hobson): unconfirmed, may sit on later pages or be let. ✓ myRent Auckland Central pages 1 and 2 read Tue Oct 20 (automated page summary: trust the address and price, not the link pairing). Trade Me is client-rendered and returns nothing.
✓ Rentals read from myRent Auckland Central (server-rendered) on Mon Oct 12. Rural and houseboat tiles are held from earlier runs and marked "recheck availability". Trade Me is client-rendered and returns no listing content.
🏠 Furnished rentals — the search
Auckland CBD & inner suburbs
Oct 20: no price changes; every Auckland tile held, eight earlier tiles still not seen on index pages 1–2 and unconfirmed. The Anzac, Nelson and Hobson tiles (new Oct 19) state “No pets” and Healthy Homes compliance on the listing itself; none states pet history, flooring or broadband, so ask the agent. Decisive facts sit in the specs line and tags; the Details prose is elaboration.
1 bed (described as a studio) · 1 bath · furnished: yes · “No pets” · Healthy Homes compliant · bond $1,440 · water + hot water included
HELD — price unchanged Oct 20 (new Oct 19)FURNISHED — stated on listingNO PETS stated (history unknown)HEALTHY HOMES compliantWifi + kitchen UNSTATED
First listed 18 Oct 2026; listing page read Oct 19. Third floor, lift, pool, courtyard, alarm; 0.5 km to Auckland Uni. The page says “studio” but lists 1 bedroom, and “available now” conflicts with a 19 Oct date in the page data: confirm both with the landlord. Not stated: flooring, ventilation, broadband, oven or dishwasher. Heating is listed, type not named. Viewings arranged privately.
1 bed (also called a studio) · 1 bath · 1 covered parking · fully furnished · “No pets” · Healthy Homes compliant · bond $2,560
HELD — price unchanged Oct 20 (new Oct 19)FURNISHED — stated on listingNO PETS stated (history unknown)HEALTHY HOMES compliantInternet NOT includedKITCHEN: oven + dishwasher unit
First listed 16 Oct 2026; listing page read Oct 19. Hotel-linked building with pools, spa, gym, tennis court; swipe-card access, harbour-view balcony, lift. Rent includes water and air conditioning; internet, TV, power and linen are excluded, so broadband is yours to arrange (check the address on a fibre checker). Heating type not named, no heat pump mentioned. Maximum two tenants; 6+ month tenancy preferred. Dearest furnished 1-bed on the page.
2 bed · 1 bath · 1 covered parking included · furnished: yes · “No pets” · Healthy Homes compliant · available 13 Nov 2026 · bond $2,600
HELD — price unchanged Oct 20 (new Oct 19)FURNISHED — stated on listingNO PETS stated (history unknown)HEALTHY HOMES compliantWifi + kitchen UNSTATED
First listed 16 Oct 2026; listing page read Oct 19. Lift, north-west deck, balcony, built-in wardrobes in both bedrooms, close to the waterfront. Open home Sat 24 Oct, 10:00–10:30 am, booking required. Available Nov 13, so it is a stretch ahead of an early-2027 move rather than a fit for it. Not stated: flooring, ventilation, broadband, oven or dishwasher.
1 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · furnished: “fully furnished with quality furnishings”
▼ PRICE CUT $750 → $700 (Oct 19)FURNISHED — stated on indexPets / flooring UNSCREENEDWifi + kitchen UNSTATEDLink = index ID (listing page not opened)
Rent cut $50 since Oct 13; index row re-read Oct 19 (page 1). Only the index row was read: rent, bed/bath/parking and the furnished quote. Not known: pet history, flooring, heat pump, Healthy Homes status, broadband, kitchen. The automated summary gave listing ID VWEDB1; treat it as a lead, not a verified link. Open the myRent index and find 1407/6 Lorne Street to reach the listing.
2 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · furnished: yes per index
NEW this runFURNISHED — flagged on indexPets / flooring UNSCREENEDWifi + kitchen UNSTATEDLink = index (ID unverified)
New on the Oct 12 index. Only the index row was read: rent, bed/bath/parking and the furnished flag. Not known: pet history, flooring, heat pump, Healthy Homes status, broadband, kitchen. Open the myRent index and find 305/53 Cook Street to reach the listing.
1 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · furnished: yes (fully) per index
NEW this runFURNISHED — “fully” per indexPets / flooring UNSCREENEDWifi + kitchen UNSTATEDLink = index (ID unverified)
New on the Oct 12 index. Only the index row was read. Same open questions as the Cook Street tile: pet history, flooring, ventilation, damp/mould, fibre, oven and dishwasher.
2 bed · 2 bath · 1 parking · furnished: yes, description cut off
NEW this runFURNISHED — flagged, text cut offPets / flooring UNSCREENEDWifi + kitchen UNSTATEDLink = index (ID unverified)
New on the Oct 12 index. The only new tile with a parking space and two bathrooms. The furnished line was cut off in the page text, so confirm with the agent. Not screened for pets, flooring or Healthy Homes.
2 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · 44m² · 5th floor, The Guardian · held at the same price since Sept 22
HELD — $565 on Oct 12 indexHELD — same price on Oct 6 indexHELD — still $565 on Oct 5 indexHELD — still the top all-round tileFURNISHED — verifiedHEALTHY HOMES — verifiedHEATING — verifiedDISHWASHER + OVENWifi UNSTATEDNO CAR PARK
Unchanged at $565/wk, verified in full on Sept 22 and re-checked at index level on Sept 29. The badge row from that fetch reads Lift access, Heating, Built-in wardrobe, Healthy Homes compliant, Furnished — four of the five allergy-screen facts confirmed on the page.
Furnishing is specific: TV, dining table and seating; beds and built-in wardrobes in both rooms; washing machine in the bathroom. Kitchen: fridge/freezer, cooktop, oven, microwave and dishwasher — still the only tile with a dishwasher confirmed from listing text.
Pets line reads “Pets allowed with consent” — the legal default, not a signal about this unit. Ask the agent: has any pet lived in 508, is the flooring hard or carpeted, is there a heat pump specifically.
1 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · pool + gym + lift in building · bond $1,680 · available 12 Oct 2026 · first listed 24 Sept 2026 · 1,645 views
NOT on Oct 12 index — recheckNOT on myRent pp.1–2 Oct 6 — recheck availabilityNEW this runFURNISHED — “fully furnished”HEALTHY HOMES — verifiedNO PETS — explicit, not the legal defaultPOOL · GYM · LIFTWifi UNSTATEDHeating UNSTATED
Fetched in full at 1:24pm ET — the strongest allergy-screen tile on the page. Its pet line reads a flat “No pets”, which after 1 Dec 2025 is unenforceable as a forward policy but is still a real signal about this landlord's own history with the unit — the clearest such signal on this page since 612 Nelson Street.
Fully furnished per the listing text, with a built-in wardrobe specifically called out; other furniture and appliances aren't itemized the way 508 Queen's are. Healthy Homes compliant is stated directly. Building amenities include a pool, gym and lift.
1,645 views on a listing eleven days old — it will move faster than most tiles here. Ask the agent: heating type, flooring, and broadband, none of which are stated.
2 bed · 2 bath · wheelchair accessible · bond $2,500 · available 19 Oct 2026 · first listed 24 Sept 2026
HELD — $600 on Oct 12 indexHELD — same price on Oct 6 indexPRICE CUT $625 → $600 (Oct 5)FURNISHED — “stylishly furnished”HEALTHY HOMES — verifiedHEATING + AIR CON — verified2 BATHROOMSWifi UNSTATEDPets allowed with consent — legal default
Fetched in full at 1:24pm ET. “Stylishly furnished,” Healthy Homes compliant, with heating and air conditioning both stated — a genuine ventilation answer rather than an unstated one, which matters more than usual on this page. Built-in wardrobe/storage confirmed; lift access, balcony and an alarm system round it out.
Two bathrooms for two bedrooms is unusual at this price point on this index. Same building, one floor below the previous run's 804 Albert Street, which has since dropped off page 1.
Pets line reads the standard post-Dec-2025 default, not an outright ban. Ask the agent: pet history in this specific unit, flooring, and broadband.
1 bed + study · 1 bath · 1 parking · washer and dryer in unit · held at the same price since Sept 15
NOT on Oct 12 index — recheckNOT on myRent pp.1–2 Oct 6 — recheck availabilityHELD — price unchanged, 3rd runFURNISHED — index-levelHEALTHY HOMES — verified Sept 15EXPLICIT “NO PETS” LINECAR PARKWifi UNSTATED
Still $625, unchanged since Sept 15. Verified at index level this run, not re-fetched in full — the Healthy Homes and “no pets” facts come from the Sept 15 fetch and haven't been re-read since.
Its explicit “No pets” line is now matched by 708 Hobson Street, which is cheaper and also Healthy Homes verified. Against the two new tiles: Nelson gives a car park and a study; it costs the same as 401 Albert for one fewer bedroom and one fewer bathroom.
2 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · 60sqm+ · 11th floor, Federal Apartments · held at the same price since Sept 15
HELD — $585 on Oct 12 indexPRICE CUT — $600 to $585 on Oct 6 indexFURNISHED — verified Sept 15HEALTHY HOMES — verified Sept 15BEDS + WHITEWARE INCLUDEDBALCONY · POOL · GYMWifi UNSTATED
Still live at the same rent two weeks after the Sept 15 full fetch. Complete furniture fit-out: two beds and drawers, dining set, sofa and coffee table, full kitchen whiteware, washer and dryer. No dishwasher stated.
Best space-per-dollar of the verified tiles: 60sqm+ and two bedrooms at $600, still available 23 Nov — the closest fit to an early-2027 move without expiring too soon.
1 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · 4th floor, The Guardian — same building as 508 above · was $495/wk on Sept 22
NOT on Oct 12 index — recheckNOT on myRent pp.1–2 Oct 6 — recheck availability▼ PRICE CUT — −$15/wk since Sept 22Furnished UNCONFIRMEDSame building as a verified tileWifi UNSTATED
The second price movement this page has recorded, and it's downward. Read $495/wk on Sept 22, reads $480 on Sept 29 — compared line by line against _archive/2026-09-22/nz-rentals.html. One floor below 508 Queen in the same character building, so the building-level facts confirmed on 508 (lift, secure entry, Healthy Homes on that unit) are plausible here though nothing unit-level is verified.
$145/wk cheaper than 508 for one bedroom instead of two. Enquiring on both at once, same landlord pool, remains the practical move.
1 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · cheapest on the index · held at the same price · applications not accepted via myRent
HELD — $350 on Oct 12 indexHELD — $350 on Oct 6 index (back on page 1)Furnished UNCONFIRMEDAPPLY OFF-PLATFORMWifi UNSTATED
Still the cheapest tile on the page. The listing explicitly says do not apply through myRent and routes viewings to a separate booking link, so almost nothing here is independently verified.
Kept because $350/wk in the CBD is worth one email, but treat everything about it as unverified until that other page is opened.
1 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · second-cheapest furnished tile on the index
NOT on Oct 12 index — recheckNEW this runFURNISHED — flagged on indexPets / flooring UNSCREENEDHealthy Homes UNVERIFIEDWifi UNSTATEDNO CAR PARK
Read from the myRent index row only (Oct 6); the individual listing page was not fetched. Ask the agent: pet history in the unit, hard flooring vs carpet, heat pump, damp or mould, fibre availability, oven and dishwasher.
HELD — $475 on Oct 12 index; furnished: yesNEW this runFURNISHED — flagged on indexPets / flooring UNSCREENEDHealthy Homes UNVERIFIEDWifi UNSTATEDNO CAR PARK
Read from the myRent index row only (Oct 6); the individual listing page was not fetched. Ask the agent: pet history in the unit, hard flooring vs carpet, heat pump, damp or mould, fibre availability, oven and dishwasher.
1 bed · 1 bath · 0 parking · 6th floor, Victoria City Apartments · opposite SkyCity · card access + double locks · held at the same price
NOT on Oct 12 index — recheckNOT on myRent pp.1–2 Oct 6 — recheck availabilityHELD — price unchangedFurnished UNCONFIRMEDCOLD WATER INCLUDEDSECURE ACCESSWifi UNSTATED
Cheap, central and secure; suitable for up to two tenants per the listing. Cold water included in the rent.
Furnished status still not stated. Held at $410 since the Sept 15 snapshot, three runs running.
Excluded on the pet screen, carried forward so the criterion stays visible:3B/22 High Street ($500, 1 bed, free unlimited WiFi) advertises Pet friendly. 501/7 Scotia Place ($590, 2 bed, furnished) is out again on “dog friendly.” The pattern holds: the best-equipped furnished CBD units keep being the pet-friendly ones.
Rural North Island — houses
Re-searched on Sept 29; the national index grew from 12 to 16 listings and one North Island tile swapped.realestate.co.nz's lifestyle-rental index was fetched in full at 1:28pm ET. Four of six Sept 22 tiles held exactly at the same price: Greytown, Tauwhare, the withheld-address Waikato listing, and Pukekohe. 84 Tebbutt Road, Lower Kaimai is off the index entirely — dropped, not silently. In its place: 37 Te Pua School Road, Helensville, new this run. Every tile remains FURNISHED UNCONFIRMED — the index still carries no furnishing field, and no rural listing page was opened this run either; that is the first question for every agent, not a detail. Two North Island lifestyle rentals are excluded on price and named rather than hidden: Le Chateau Moderne, Waikato at $3,900/wk (unchanged) and 158 Mill Road, Totara Park, now $1,600/wk — a $200/wk cut from the $1,800 recorded on Sept 22, still well outside band. Two more new-but-pricey Auckland-fringe listings turned up and are named without tiles: 27 Murphys Road, Totara Park ($1,350/wk) and 48 Postman Road, Dairy Flat ($1,000/wk).
3 bed · 1 bath · lifestyle property · Wairarapa, ~1hr from Wellington · held at the same price since Sept 22 · agent Mark Real Estate, Upper Hutt
HELD — best rural fitFURNISHED UNCONFIRMEDHealthy Homes UNSTATEDWifi UNSTATEDPet history UNKNOWN
Still the strongest rural tile on price-to-space. Three bedrooms for $570/wk is five dollars more than a two-bed Auckland CBD apartment. Held at the same price and still listed, now one week on.
Nothing below is verified: furnishing, Healthy Homes status, heating, flooring and internet remain unstated; no listing page has been fetched on any run.
Ask the agent, in this order: is it furnished; is there a Healthy Homes compliance certificate; is it fibre or rural wireless; has a pet lived in the house; is the flooring hard or carpeted; is there a heat pump.
4 bed · 2 bath · 4.28ha (10.6 acres) · rural NW Auckland · listed 2 weeks ago · agent Harcourts The Difference
NEW — replaces the dropped Kaimai tileMOST LAND ON THE PAGEFURNISHED UNCONFIRMEDHealthy Homes UNSTATEDWifi UNSTATED
New this run, and the only rural tile in the Auckland region itself. Helensville is on the northwestern edge of the Auckland Council area — rural in character (4.28 hectares, market-garden and lifestyle-block country) while technically inside Auckland, which likely means better broadband odds than the further-flung Waikato and Bay of Plenty tiles.
Four bedrooms and two bathrooms on over ten acres for $680/wk undercuts every other 4-bed tile in this set. Nothing is verified — furnishing, Healthy Homes, heating and internet are all unstated, and no listing page was opened this run.
Being inside Auckland Council also means the drive to the CBD is realistically manageable, unlike Wairarapa or Waikato.
2 bed · 1 bath · lifestyle property · Waikato · held at the same price since Sept 22 · private listing, agent Ian Cameron · address not published
HELD — cheapest rural tileFURNISHED UNCONFIRMEDADDRESS WITHHELDHealthy Homes UNSTATED
Lowest rent in the rural set, unchanged. The address is still withheld, so location within Waikato — which decides both the broadband answer and the drive to anywhere — can't be established without contacting the agent directly.
Two bedrooms at $550 is not obviously better value than Greytown's three at $570 or Helensville's four at $680. Treat it as a phone call, not a shortlist entry, and ask for the address first.
4 bed · 1 bath · 138m² · lifestyle property · Waikato, ~20min east of Hamilton · held at the same price since Sept 22 · agent Harcourts Morrinsville
HELD — most space per dollarFURNISHED UNCONFIRMED3+ MONTHS ON MARKET1 BATH FOR 4 BEDS
138m² and four bedrooms for $725/wk, unchanged — still the only rural tile publishing a floor area, and the most house per dollar here besides Helensville's land.
Now over three months on the market, which usually means either the single bathroom against four bedrooms, or something negotiable. Tauwhare is about twenty minutes east of Hamilton.
3 bed · 3 bath · lifestyle property · Hastings, Hawke’s Bay · held at the same price since Sept 22 · agent Wolfbrook Property Management
HELD — price unchanged3 BATHROOMSFURNISHED UNCONFIRMEDCOASTAL — FLOOD HISTORY
Three bathrooms for three bedrooms, unchanged at $750. Haumoana is on the Hawke's Bay coast near the Tukituki river mouth, an area with a documented flood and cyclone history. Ask directly whether the property was affected in 2023 and what remediation was done, before asking anything about furnishing.
Hawke's Bay is the warmest and driest region in this set, which cuts the other way on damp.
4 bed · 2 bath · lifestyle property · rural South Auckland · held at the same price since Sept 22 · agent Ray White 360 Property Management
HELD — closest to Auckland CBD by railFURNISHED UNCONFIRMED3+ MONTHS ON MARKETMANAGED BY AGENCY
Unchanged. Pukekohe is rural South Auckland and on the Auckland electric rail network — the only rural tile where “rural house” and “can get into the city without driving” are both true, which matters given the NY licence situation (see Outstanding Tasks, p1).
Still over three months unlet at $795, the same negotiable signal as Tauwhare. Agency-managed, so a Healthy Homes certificate should exist on request. Most expensive rural tile; the premium is entirely proximity to Auckland.
✓ Rural North Island re-searched at 7:25am ET on Sept 29. realestate.co.nz/residential/rental/lifestyle-property returned 16 results nationally (was 12 on Sept 22), from which six North Island listings under roughly $800/wk are shown above. Prices, bed/bath counts and listing age compared line by line against _archive/2026-09-22/nz-rentals.html. No individual rural listing page was fetched, so furnishing, Healthy Homes status, heating, flooring, pet history and broadband remain unstated on all six.
Houseboat rentals — anywhere in NZ
The one concrete lead this page ever found is gone. The “Dreamtime” liveaboard at Bayswater Marina, carried for two runs as a vessel-for-sale-with-berth lead, was checked again at 1:34pm ET and its listing page now returns a 404. Either sold, delisted, or the URL structure changed — there's no way to tell from here which. No replacement vessel or rental was searched for this run; the budget went to Auckland and rural instead. The Whangarei Marina liveaboard policy page is kept as the one surviving lead, unchanged and unverified further.
Northland · one of the few NZ marinas with a public liveaboard page · berth fees, liveaboard surcharge, power, water and shower charges all separate
MARINA POLICY — THE REAL GATENO VESSEL ATTACHEDNorthlandNot re-verified this run
Not a place to live, a door to knock on. Whangarei publishes a liveaboard programme rather than treating it as an exception, which makes it the obvious first call for establishing what this category actually costs and permits, now that the one concrete vessel lead is gone.
The cost structure to ask about: berth fee, liveaboard surcharge, power, water and shower facility charges are all billed separately, and marina fees rise annually.
Next run should search fresh for a vessel to replace Dreamtime, and consider calling Whangarei directly rather than continuing to index-search a category with almost no inventory.
⚠ The previously-tracked houseboat listing is gone. City of Sails Marine's Dreamtime listing returned a 404 when checked at 7:25am ET on Sept 29. No new houseboat search was run this cycle — open because the budget went elsewhere, not because none exists.
📈 Market Pulse — for sale
Fetched directly this run, as flagged as overdue two runs in a row. Both an Auckland Central for-sale index and a Waikato lifestyle for-sale index were fetched at 1:36pm ET. Most Auckland listings on the index show “price by negotiation” rather than a figure — one apartment and one Waikato lifestyle property below carry real asking prices. Context only, deliberately kept to a quarter of the page.
A real asking price on a two-bed CBD apartment, unlike most of the index which lists “price by negotiation.” North-facing harbour views, Fisher & Paykel kitchen, engineered timber floors, resort-style pool and sauna in the building.
Relevant to the rental search: it's currently tenanted at $650/wk — a real data point on what a well-specified 2-bed CBD unit actually rents for, above every furnished tile in the rental section above. Pet-friendly with Body Corporate approval, and fibre is confirmed installed, which no rental tile on this page has stated.
3 bed · 2 bath · 1,671m² land · near Hamilton · lake views
Waikato lifestyleFor saleAbove the rental-search region's price ceiling
A rare priced listing on an index where 300+ Waikato lifestyle results mostly withhold price. “Elevated lake views and private lifestyle living” near Hamilton, close to the Tauwhare and Waikato-withheld rental tiles above geographically.
Context only — well above what this search is renting for, but useful as a sense of what buying instead of renting costs in the same rural Waikato corridor.
REINZ median, July 2026 · carried from the last aggregate read, not re-fetched on Sept 29
Aggregate, carriedMarket read
The one-line market read: Auckland's median is down slightly year over year, taking about seven weeks to sell, with national prices still roughly 17% below the early-2022 peak. Buyers are routinely negotiating 3–6% off asking.
For the rental side: a soft buying market usually pushes more stock into the rental pool, which is consistent with two Auckland rental tiles moving (one up, one down) rather than none at all this run.
✓ For-sale listings fetched directly at 7:25am ET on Sept 29 from realestate.co.nz Auckland Central and realestate.co.nz Waikato lifestyle, then one listing page each read in full. Aggregate market-read figures (median, days-to-sell, peak comparison) carried from the prior run's MoneyHub NZ read, not re-fetched on Sept 29.