The market wrap, what happened last month.
Settled rents from the same bond data: most Coast suburbs' medians sat in the $650–$810 a week band - including Orewa, Silverdale, Gulf Harbour and Red Beach - with Millwater higher at around $885 and Hatfields Beach around $605. Bond lodgements were heaviest in Orewa and Millwater and lightest in Army Bay and Hatfields Beach, broadly matching the size of each rental pool.
The Coast, suburb by suburb.
The Coast's beachside hub and busiest rental market.
The residential heart of the Whangaparāoa peninsula.
Marina living at the tip of the peninsula.
A beachside village on the peninsula.
The Coast's fast-growing retail and new-build gateway.
Established beachside family suburb.
Master-planned and young-family led - the Coast's newest suburb.
A quiet bay on the peninsula's south side.
By Shakespear Regional Park at the peninsula's end.
The peninsula's namesake stretch.
A small beach settlement just north of Orewa.
This update draws on the team’s daily monitoring of listing activity across the major property portals, together with Aspire’s own portfolio data and Tenancy Services bond statistics. Settled-rent figures are MBIE bond data (CC BY 3.0 NZ); recent data is provisional and may be revised.
A big market, watched up close.
Know your tenant before you list.
The Coast is a family-and-retiree market - seven in ten households are single-family, one in five residents is over 65, and flatting is almost non-existent. Your likely Coast tenant is a family or an established couple, renting a home for the medium-to-long term.
Stats NZ 2023 Census (CC BY 4.0), aggregated across the Hibiscus Coast SA2s (Orewa, Millwater, Red Beach, Manly, Gulf Harbour, Stanmore Bay, Silverdale, Arkles Bay, Army Bay, Hatfields Beach and neighbours). Census counts are randomly rounded to protect confidentiality, so shares are approximate.
We don't just manage here, we live here.
Lauren heads our commercial team and calls Stanmore Bay home - you’ll find her playing football on the Stanmore Bay pitch, which has a fair claim to the best view of any football ground in Auckland. That’s the Coast: even the sports fields look out over the water.
Elise leads our people and service team and lives for the Coast’s beaches - the walk-to-the-sand lifestyle that makes tenants fall for this stretch of Auckland the moment they visit.
Georgia manages rentals and lives close to the beach on the Hibiscus Coast. It’s local knowledge you can’t research - she knows these streets because she walks them.
From Orewa’s two-kilometre beach to the Gulf Harbour marina, Shakespear Regional Park at the tip of the Whangaparāoa peninsula, and the new village hearts of Millwater and Silverdale - the Coast is a genuine lifestyle destination. Families come for the beaches, the schools and the space, and they stay. Knowing it first-hand is how we market your rental to the people most likely to take it.
We manage rentals right across the Hibiscus Coast.
And they’re looked after locally - Georgia, who lives on the Coast, personally manages most of these homes.
Counts and averages are from Aspire's own management records, active managements as at 10 August 2026. We don't publish rental addresses.
We live here, we manage here
We know the whole Coast
Priced on real Coast evidence
Market-size and demographic figures are from the Stats NZ 2023 Census (CC BY 4.0), aggregated across the Hibiscus Coast's Statistical Area 2 boundaries; recent data is provisional and counts are randomly rounded. Portfolio figures (managed homes, average rent) are from Aspire's own management records, active managements only, as at 10 August 2026. Listing-market observations draw on the team's monitoring of activity across the major property portals; we publish only observations and aggregates we compute ourselves. Suburb context is not an appraisal - every property is priced on its own evidence.