Realestate - Property search & insights

Explore your ideal residence, investment opportunity, commercial space, or business through the realestate.co.nz app.

This application is a fast and visually appealing resource that provides an unparalleled map search, valuable market insights, and property analyses right at your fingertips.

Whether you’re searching for a home, aiming to lease or purchase commercial real estate, looking for a rural lifestyle change, or hunting for a rental, all possibilities are readily accessible.

Realestate.co.nz focuses solely on properties, making it the go-to platform for dedicated property seekers to find their ideal match more efficiently.

Within the realestate.co.nz app, you can:

- Explore listings of properties available for sale, rent, or lease across New Zealand in either a list or map format

- Customize your search based on nearly any criteria

- Save your favorite listings in one easily accessible location, receive immediate updates about any changes, and keep track using a rating and notes feature

- Add properties to an integrated open home calendar or your personal calendar and obtain directions for your upcoming visits

- Utilize a mortgage calculator to determine if the property aligns with your financial plan

We’ve been helping people buy, sell, or rent property since 1996

Established before Google, realestate.co.nz is New Zealand’s longest-standing property website and the official website of the real estate industry.

Dedicated only to property, our mission is to empower people with a property search tool they can use to find the life they want to live.  

As for our team, we’re a tech company that lives and breathes property. We’re always looking for new ways to make the journey of buying, renting or leasing property easier and more enjoyable.  

On the flip side, if you have a house, rural property, commercial building or business to sell or rent, we have every real estate brand in New Zealand on our site, and a dedicated audience of property seekers. 

Our vision is for New Zealanders to always have a valuable place where they can buy and sell properties online.

Our story

Back in early 1995, there was a forward-thinking lady named Leonie Freeman who was consulting for the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ). Leonie became frustrated that the only way to market a property for sale was via the local newspaper – which was expensive, time-consuming, and made it difficult to browse listings outside of your local area.

As the internet became more popular, Leonie had a vision for the property industry to create its own ‘online newspaper’ of property listings. She was met with great resistance from the industry – ‘No,’ ‘that's a silly idea,’ ‘no one will ever look at real estate in that way.'.

Disheartened but determined, Leonie visited an influential person in the industry, previous REINZ President, Peter Cook, to discuss her idea. At the time, the Internet was continuing to grow, and President Bill Clinton was busy promising to provide Internet access to every classroom in America. With that in mind, Peter decided to support Leonie to give this 'internet thing a go.' 

The next twelve months were spent developing and sharing the idea and in August 1996 (two years before Google launched), www.RealENZ.co.nz was live. 

The site was originally a 50/50 joint venture between REINZ and the Auckland Multiple Listed Bureau. In 2005, PPL (Property Page Limited) made up of real estate agencies Bayleys, Barfoot & Thompson, Ray White, Harcourts, and LJ Hooker joined the shareholding. The company was changed to realestate.co.nz, the name we know and love today.