Alongside the well-established effects of housing and neighbourhood quality, research has increasingly found housing tenure to have important implications for individuals' subjective wellbeing. The extent that the COVID-19 pandemic emphasised these tenure-based wellbeing disparities in Aotearoa, however, is under-informed, and the gap that this research aimed to fill. Utilising data from the Quality of Life Survey – Wellington Components, across three significant survey years in the COVID-19 period (2018, 2020 and 2022), a mixed-method approach was used to compare subjective wellbeing outcomes (WHO-5 and Life Satisfaction) across tenure types in the Wellington region.