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Auckland has the largest share accommodation market in New Zealand and the highest rents. The central suburbs hold most of the listings, and traffic means a short distance on the map can still be a long trip. Flats here are often advertised as a whole household looking for one person, so expect to meet everyone before you move in.
Judge a commute by time of day, not by distance on the map.
Expect to meet the whole household, since that is the norm here.
Ask whether the rent quoted includes expenses, which varies a lot.
There are currently 3 rooms advertised in Auckland on flatmate.com. Listings change daily, so it is worth saving a search rather than checking back by hand.
The University of Auckland and AUT are both in the city centre, and Massey is at Albany on the North Shore. Grafton, Mount Eden, Kingsland and Newmarket are the central suburbs students tend to land in.
Semester one starts late February or early March, semester two mid-July.
Judge a commute by time of day rather than distance, because Auckland traffic is the deciding factor.
Ask whether the rent quoted includes expenses, which varies more here than it should.
Every listing here is a room in someone’s home rather than a building run by an operator, so you are moving in with the people who already live there. That is worth knowing before you start: the household chooses, and they choose a person rather than an application.
