What is it like to live in an apartment in Auckland CBD, New Zealand?

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mike g

Quite a few apartment blocks built in recent years conform to the minimum standards set by Auckland City Council.

These rules go back to some old colonial system where its the same as room sizes in 19th century London - ergo - what I would say are unacceptably small room sizes (certainly for medium to long-term living).

Dont settle for anything you are not happy with even though an agent might try to hard sell you. They dont have to live in them and probably have a room twice the size in another part of the city.

Sacha...

I live just off krd in the central city. Its extrmly noisy, but the lifestyle is the best! There are heaps of apartments around the universitys, all mostly occupied by students asians and arabs, there is nothing wrong with that of course. Living round that area im sure you will have a great time!

Suixelo

Well, I work at Skycity and go to AUT University, and I love living in the city centre! It's so much easier to be able to walk to work/uni, and there are plenty of places open 24/7, including Foodtown, Star Marts (like dairies) and internet cafes. You also have plenty of things right on your doorstep for weekends out with friends/family, like the movies, theatres, galleries, pretty much anything is in walking distance. Public transport is getting better, the trains and busses generally run on time and get you to where you want to go.

Apartments themselves differ, the one I'm in is quite nice, but some of the newer ones are a little... cheaply done and you can be overcharged for the rent. Have a little look around, visit as many as you can until you find one you like.

Good luck =]]

Zebra

The best thing is privacy!! No nosey neighbours looking in your windows or watching your coming & going. The worst thing is if you have an apartment with poor insulation as you can hear everything going on next door & vice versa. If you have a car it's hard & expensive to get an apartment with a free car park & visitors complain about visiting you as they have to pay at a car park. I lived opposite Albert Park on Kitchener St but not for long as the homeless alcoholics, etc were so noisy with fighting, etc in the middle of the night! I would NEVER walk through that or any other inner city park at night, there have been alot of rapes.

Another disadvantage is being woken up by the rubbish trucks at 5 - 6am on rubbish day!

You will find that most of your neighbours will be Asian. Although I did have a certain NZ celebrity living in my building in Kitchener St & no Asians there at all. It was all people who owned their own apartments.

If you get non Asian NZers they tend to be living in the CBD as they're clubbers.

Alot of landlords are struggling to fill their apartments due to alot of Asians no longer coming here to learn English at the language schools due to bad press in Asian newspapers. They filled most of the apartment rentals. Work this to your advantage by negotiating on the rent & asking for it cheaper. They'd be stupid to say no.

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