Queenstown-Lakes District

Queenstown is the adventure capital, where someone will happily strap you to a cord and throw you off a bridge before lunch, and the queue at Fergburger is its own form of cardio. Add the ski fields, Lake Wakatipu and Wānaka next door, and you’ve got the most photogenic district in the country, with the prices to match.

This is tourism central, beautiful and busy and eye-wateringly expensive, where a modest house costs a fortune and the locals mostly live further out. Wānaka offers a slightly calmer version of the same magic. If money’s no object, or you fancy a project, this is the dream address.

There are 114 suburbs and localities across the district. This page gathers them so you can compare properly: who lives where, what it’ll genuinely cost, how the schools sit, and which spots are realistic versus aspirational.

Mountains, lakes and a very big price tag. Pick a suburb and see what the dream actually costs.