The rental market wrap, what happened last month.
Know your tenant before you list.
A family suburb through and through: seven in ten households are single-family and flatting is rare. Your likely Westmere tenant is a family or an established couple, typically renting for the longer term.
Stats NZ 2023 Census (CC BY 4.0), aggregated across the Westmere North and Westmere South-Western Springs SA2s. Census counts are randomly rounded to protect confidentiality, so shares are approximate.
July 2026, the story.
Westmere stayed the tightest rental market of the inner-west suburbs through July. Through the whole of our late-July daily watch, only around half a dozen homes were advertised for rent online in the entire suburb at any moment - the scarcest supply, and the highest asking rents, of the three suburbs we track.
The bond data tells the same story from the settled side: only 30 new tenancies were lodged in the March quarter, at medians of $950–$980 a week across Westmere's two statistical areas, and the top quarter of tenancies settled above $1,200. With so few data points, a single villa or a single apartment block can move the suburb's headline number - which is exactly why suburb medians should inform, not set, an individual property's rent.
Only three in ten Westmere households rent, so every quality rental that does come up is scarce by definition. For owners, that means genuine pricing power - and a market where an accurate, property-specific appraisal matters more than anywhere else we manage.
What this means for your rental.
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We don't just manage in Westmere, we live here.
Mike founded Aspire and has called Westmere home for seven years. When the person behind the company lives in your suburb, the local knowledge isn’t researched - it’s lived, and that passion is exactly what we use to sell your property to the right tenant.
Westmere has quietly become one of Auckland’s best places to eat. BeBe’s, Sea Breeze, Catroux, Ragtag and Taco Loco all call Westmere home - that village-y, walk-to-brunch lifestyle tenants fall for the moment they visit. We know it because we live it.
That first-hand passion for Westmere is what we bring to every viewing - we’re not reciting the suburb, we’re selling somewhere we love.
Why owners here choose Aspire.
We watch Westmere daily
Scarcity is your advantage
A family-home market
The Westmere update, every month.
July 2026 is our first published edition. Each month’s update joins the archive here, building the public record of Westmere’s rental market.
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; we publish only observations and aggregates we compute ourselves. Settled-rent figures are from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s rental bond data (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 NZ), aggregated across Westmere’s Statistical Area 2 boundaries; recent MBIE data is provisional and may be revised. Household tenure is from the Stats NZ 2023 Census (CC BY 4.0). Suburb medians are context, not an appraisal - every property is priced on its own evidence.