Christchurch City

Christchurch had a rough decade and rebuilt itself into something quite a bit better than the postcard version it used to be. The garden city’s still flat and easy to ride a bike around, but the centre’s got a new edge to it now, and the old "more English than England" line doesn’t quite hold anymore.

You can be at the beach, up in the Port Hills, or two hours from a ski field, all from the same address. There’s a huge spread of suburbs here, from the older leafy streets to the rebuilt east to the new subdivisions on the edges, and prices that still make Auckland look unhinged.

This page gathers all 220-odd suburbs in one spot so you can compare them properly: who lives where, what you’ll pay, how the schools sit, and which areas have bounced back versus which are still finding their feet.

Big city space without the big city tax. Pick a suburb and have a proper look.