{
  "query": {
    "country": "NZ",
    "town": "Queenstown-Lakes District",
    "months": 3
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "NZD",
    "unit": "per home",
    "value": 1450000,
    "measure": "median",
    "median": 1450000,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": 207,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-05-01",
    "to": "2026-07-31"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "median",
    "reference_period": "3-month window ending July 2026"
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-30T13:13:03.882Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "nz-hud-home-sales",
    "name": "Property and sales statistics data extract (median and quartile residential sale prices by area)",
    "publisher": "Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), New Zealand (now part of the Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport)",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). HUD copyright page: \"this copyright material is licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence\" (the site's logos and imagery are excluded).",
    "licence_url": "https://www.hud.govt.nz/about-us/copyright-and-disclaimer",
    "attribution": "Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, New Zealand (now the Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport), Property and sales statistics, reused under CC BY 4.0. Figures are passed on as published; the comparison with New Zealand is calculated by ProofPrice. This is not an endorsement by the Ministry.",
    "url": "https://www.hud.govt.nz/stats-and-insights/property-and-sales-statistics/about-the-dashboard"
  },
  "method": "New Zealand: the median sale price, lower and upper quartile and number of residential sales that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development publishes per area (New Zealand, region, territorial authority, Auckland local board) for a month, a 3-month rolling and a 12-month rolling window, from the District Valuation Roll by sale agreement date. We collect the newest period of each window from HUD's workbook once a day and answer from that copy; HUD's figures are passed on unchanged. Without months the 12-month figure is returned, because small areas have too few sales for a monthly price.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In Queenstown-Lakes District the median price of residential sales (per home, not per m²) was NZ$1,450,000 in the 3 months to July 2026, from 207 sales; half of the sales were between NZ$1,100,000 and NZ$1,985,000 (lower to upper quartile). The New Zealand median for the same period was NZ$750,000 (Queenstown-Lakes District is 93.3% above it). Official median published by Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), New Zealand (now part of the Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport) for 3-month window ending July 2026.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "area": {
      "name": "Queenstown-Lakes District",
      "level": "territorial authority"
    },
    "sales": 207,
    "interquartile_range": {
      "lower_quartile": 1100000,
      "upper_quartile": 1985000,
      "note": "HUD publishes the lower and upper quartile (25th and 75th percentile); this is not a 10th-90th range."
    },
    "window_months": 3,
    "reference_period_label": "3-month window ending July 2026",
    "new_zealand_comparison": {
      "median": 750000,
      "period": "3-month window ending July 2026",
      "difference_percent": 93.3
    },
    "other_windows": [
      {
        "window": "1 month",
        "reference_period": "July 2026",
        "median": 1450000,
        "sales": 54
      },
      {
        "window": "12 months",
        "reference_period": "12-month window ending July 2026",
        "median": 1390000,
        "sales": 1131
      }
    ],
    "library_snapshot_date": "2026-07-31",
    "dataset": {
      "page": "https://www.hud.govt.nz/stats-and-insights/property-and-sales-statistics/about-the-dashboard"
    }
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_87c15558aa2f6404a107",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T13:13:03.882Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published median",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  },
  "reliability": "official_with_count",
  "data_as_of": "2026-07-31",
  "data_age_days": 91,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is one published figure for a group: for a specific job or purchase, ask for an itemised quote."
  ]
}