{"id":121664,"date":"2025-11-06T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121664\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:20:07","slug":"rents-fall-as-new-listings-surge-across-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121664\/","title":{"rendered":"Rents fall as new listings surge across New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Williams (pictured), spokesperson for realestate.co.nz, said the figures mark a clear divergence between rental costs and broader inflation pressures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that average rental prices are down nationally tells us the rental market is going in a different direction from the broader cost-of-living pressure, which is certainly welcome news for tenants,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for landlords, that means despite being hit with rising living costs, they may not be able to command the higher rental prices they would like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listings rise as rental supply outpaces demand<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1661\" data-start=\"1527\">The national number of\u00a0new rental listings climbed 11.4% year-on-year\u00a0in October 2025 to 6,750, with overall stock up\u00a021.2%.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1918\" data-start=\"1665\">\u201cRenters have plenty of choice right now, which landlords need to keep in mind,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanessa Williams (pictured), spokesperson for realestate.co.nz, said the figures mark a clear divergence between rental costs and broader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,85417,85418,85416],"class_list":{"0":"post-121664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-rental-listings","13":"tag-rental-market","14":"tag-rental-price"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}