Data
Average ownership tenure by suburb, and the share of homes held long enough that their owners are approaching a move.
Across Auckland suburbs, the average owner occupied home has been held 13.5 years, and 58% have been held seven years or more. The spread is wide: Māngere East averages 18.2 years and Stonefields averages 8.8 years.
These figures come from public property and title records, cleaned and matched against postal address data. They count owner occupied homes only, so rentals and absentee owned properties are excluded and the totals are lower than a raw property count for the same suburb.
The probability that a homeowner moves rises with the time they have already spent in the house. That makes tenure the most useful filter in prospecting, and it is the one signal no advertising platform will sell you. You can buy an audience by suburb, by age and by interest, but not by the fifteen years someone has lived on a street.
It is a probability, not a prediction. A suburb where two thirds of homes have been held seven years holds many more potential sellers than one where a third have, but no figure in this table identifies a household that is about to list. Anyone claiming otherwise is selling something.
Average years of ownership, longest first.
Newer stock moves faster. Stonefields is the clearest case: a suburb built recently has no owners who could have been there twenty years.
| Suburb | Owner occupied homes | Avg years owned | Held 7+ yrs | Held 10+ yrs | Median CV | Sold, last 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Māngere East | 1,660 | 18.2 | 68% | 57% | $1.05m | 35 |
| Murrays Bay | 501 | 16.3 | 65% | 58% | $1.65m | 10 |
| Mount Eden | 2,155 | 16.1 | 65% | 57% | $2.06m | 36 |
| Greenlane | 652 | 15.4 | 64% | 57% | $1.54m | 21 |
| Saint Johns | 1,440 | 14.9 | 64% | 56% | $1.48m | 7 |
| Otahuhu | 1,998 | 14.6 | 59% | 50% | $820k | 15 |
| Milford | 1,989 | 14.5 | 64% | 56% | $1.59m | 20 |
| Ellerslie | 2,331 | 14.4 | 60% | 50% | $1.38m | 18 |
| Campbells Bay | 696 | 14.3 | 64% | 56% | $1.98m | 4 |
| Remuera | 2,596 | 14 | 59% | 49% | $1.96m | 53 |
| Takapuna | 1,952 | 14 | 63% | 53% | $1.55m | 15 |
| Point Chevalier | 1,953 | 13.9 | 54% | 45% | $1.85m | 22 |
| Mairangi Bay | 1,523 | 13.9 | 61% | 51% | $1.68m | 14 |
| Forrest Hill | 2,348 | 13.7 | 60% | 52% | $1.35m | 25 |
| Castor Bay | 549 | 13.5 | 61% | 53% | $1.68m | 7 |
| Bayview | 1,830 | 13.4 | 61% | 50% | $911k | 16 |
| Meadowbank | 1,154 | 13.4 | 61% | 50% | $1.90m | 11 |
| Torbay | 3,792 | 13.3 | 60% | 50% | $1.18m | 26 |
| Henderson | 5,039 | 13.1 | 56% | 47% | $910k | 75 |
| Mount Albert | 2,217 | 12.8 | 54% | 45% | $1.25m | 45 |
| Papatoetoe | 4,350 | 12.7 | 53% | 45% | $876k | 89 |
| Manurewa | 2,927 | 12.7 | 53% | 43% | $860k | 94 |
| Parnell | 632 | 12.6 | 53% | 43% | $1.50m | 19 |
| Mount Wellington | 2,690 | 12.4 | 49% | 41% | $970k | 49 |
| Massey | 3,668 | 11.3 | 48% | 37% | $890k | 61 |
| Stonefields | 1,277 | 8.8 | 58% | 43% | $1.64m | 15 |
Sorted by average ownership tenure. Sales are completed sales recorded in the suburb over the ninety days to 27 August 2026, and come from sales records rather than from the ownership figures beside them, so the two columns are not a ratio. Suburb names link through to a fuller profile where one is published.
Across Auckland suburbs the average owner occupied home has been held 13.5 years. That figure varies widely by suburb, from 8.8 years in Stonefields to 18.2 years in Māngere East.
Of the Auckland suburbs in the table below, Māngere East has the longest average ownership at 18.2 years, with 68% of homes held seven years or more. Māngere East has the highest share of long held homes at 68%.
Because it is the closest thing to a public signal of who might move next. The likelihood that an owner sells rises with the years they have already been in the home, so a suburb where most homes have been held a decade holds far more potential sellers than its sales figures alone suggest.
It is also the one useful filter that no advertising platform offers. You can target an area on social media, but not the owners within it who have been there fifteen years.
No. It shifts the odds, it does not predict anything about a particular home. Plenty of owners stay thirty years and plenty sell after three. Tenure is useful because it tells you where to spend a fixed budget, not because it identifies a seller.
Treat any tool that claims to name the households about to list with real scepticism. What tenure honestly supports is better odds across a few hundred letters, not a shortlist.
A residential property whose recorded owner is an individual at that address, rather than a company, a trust operating at another address, or a property whose owner receives mail elsewhere. Rentals and absentee owned homes are not counted, which is why these totals are lower than a raw property count for the same suburb.
Public property and title records, cleaned and matched against postal address data so that a letter written from it can actually be delivered. How our data works sets out what is included, what is removed, and why the counts are lower than other sources.
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Figures are based on 53,919 owner-occupied homes across Auckland. Last refreshed 27 August 2026.
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