Bedsit asking $420 pw draws anger – Stuff compares offerings around NZ

When Auckland University lecturer Sarah Bickerton saw an advertisment on Trade Me for a small bedsit in Wellington for $420 a week that asked for applicants’ flat hunting CV “to get a head-start on everyone else”, she thought it was satire, Stuff reports. Bickerton lived in the capital for a decade before moving to Auckland in 2020, and she said the renting options in New Zealand’s biggest cities were far better.