Maungakiekie-Tāmaki · Auckland
Repainting a house in Glen Innes: what drives the price
What the published data says about repainting a house here: the dwelling mix, whether a character overlay constrains the street frontage, what the zoning map mostly is, and how much alteration work the local board consents. No price is asserted here: what a repaint costs, and where the data runs out.
Glen Innes — specification
- Local board
- Maungakiekie-Tāmaki
- Dominant stock
- House — 80%
- Character overlay
- None mapped
- Largest zone
- 39.5% Terrace Housing and Apartment Buildings
- Median rent
- $678/wk
- New dwellings consented
- 252
Each figure sourced and dated where it appears below · 2026-07-30
$678/wk
Across 75 bonds lodged in Glen Innes. If you are a landlord deciding whether to repaint, this is the number the spend has to be justified against — not the sale price. There is a calculator for that.
116th highest of 246 Auckland suburbs
Published figures for this suburb
Glen Innes at a glance
Each of these is published by someone else and dated. None of them is a price for your job — this site does not have one to give you, and says why.
Stats NZ — New dwellings consented by statistical area 2, May 2026 · May 2026
The housing stock
What Glen Innes is actually made of
New Zealand publishes no per-suburb record of dwelling age or cladding material — the Census collects neither. The closest honest proxy is the dwelling type of every rental bond lodged here, and it does genuinely differ suburb to suburb.
House is the dominant reported type at 80%. Standalone housing means the exterior job is set by cladding, storeys and access rather than by floor area. What each cladding type needs is the question to settle before anyone quotes.
The zoning map
Terrace Housing & Apartment — highest intensity
Mostly relevant when a repaint turns into something bigger. The mix below is what the Unitary Plan base zone map holds across Glen Innes — it is the map, not your section.
Your own section may be zoned differently from the suburb around it, and the zone does not decide whether you can repaint — it decides what else you could do. If the answer changes what you are planning, the zoning for this suburb is set out at PropertyScope.
The local market
What Maungakiekie-Tāmaki consents
The nearest thing New Zealand publishes to a renovation-and-repaint benchmark is the declared value of alteration consents. It is the applicant’s own estimate of build cost, it excludes land, and it is not a quote.
| Measure | Value | Change on prior year |
|---|---|---|
| Total declared value of alterations | $11.68m | -10.5% |
| Alteration consents issued | 135 | +10.7% |
| Average declared value per consent | $86,514 | — |
| New dwellings consented | 1221 | — |
Alterations = consents to alter or add to an existing dwelling (Stats NZ series "Dwelling units / Altered"). Values are the consented build cost excluding GST as recorded on the consent, not what the work finally sold for.
Stats NZ — Building consents issued, May 2026 · May 2026
A repaint on its own usually needs no consent, so most repainting in Glen Innes never appears in this table. It is here as market context: it is the scale of discretionary work being consented around you, and the direction it is moving. Why a per-square-metre price cannot be derived from it is worth reading before you compare quotes.
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Repainting in Glen Innes
Two things decide your job and neither of them is above: what your cladding is, and how many days the weather will let a coat cure. Cladding and the system it needs · how many usable painting days an Auckland month actually contains.
Rents and yields for Glen Innes are tracked at SuburbIQ, and if the job turns out to be a renovation rather than a repaint, Renovate Auckland covers that side.