Average weekly rent, national priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2025
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Average weekly rent, national (per week) cost NZ$420 in 2015 and NZ$595 in 2025, a change of +42% in New Zealand dollars across 10 years. The figures are annual averages from Tenancy Services bond data, national mean weekly rent. The fiat peak in this series came in 2025 at NZ$595.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 106,870,229 sats to 338,981 sats, a change of −99.7%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2021 to 2022, when this item moved +64% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
Weekly rent is how New Zealand quotes housing pain. It has risen more than 40 percent in fiat across the decade and never had a down year.
Housing is where the melting unit hurts the most, because the sums are the largest and the borrowing longest. The main page shows how the whole cost of living behaves when the measuring stick is fixed.
| Year | NZ dollars | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | NZ$420 | 106,870,229 |
| 2016 | NZ$435 | 51,971,326 |
| 2017 | NZ$450 | 7,554,138 |
| 2018 | NZ$465 | 4,398,411 |
| 2019 | NZ$480 | 4,253,057 |
| 2020 | NZ$495 | 2,723,971 |
| 2021 | NZ$520 | 773,108 |
| 2022 | NZ$555 | 1,266,083 |
| 2023 | NZ$575 | 1,197,468 |
| 2024 | NZ$585 | 530,853 |
| 2025 | NZ$595 | 338,981 |
Source: Tenancy Services bond data, national mean weekly rent. Series pending external verification. Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-04. Full method on the main page.