Q3 2026 HousingAnywhere International Rent Index by City

Furnished room rents rose just 1% year on year to €635 in Q3 2026. There were 14.5 interested students per room in August, down from 16.5 a year ago, while trends differed across countries and cities.

Amsterdam, 14 October 2026. The 33rd quarterly edition of the HousingAnywhere International Rent Index shows that room rents were broadly stable this summer, but that finding a room remained challenging in key student cities. The report analyses rent prices for furnished rooms and studios advertised on the HousingAnywhere platform across 25 cities in 11 countries.

The median furnished room rent across the cities in the Index is €635 in Q3 2026, up 1% from €629 in Q3 2025. It is still 1.6% below the level of Q3 2024 (€645).

Competition for rooms eased slightly but stayed high. In August, there were 14.5 interested students per room (unique users who opened at least one listing page, divided by available rooms), 12% fewer than a year ago (16.5). This is still more than double the level in May (6.6), at the start of the peak season.

External research points to a gap between student demand and new student housing. JLL expects Europe’s student population to grow by 2.2 million, to 21 million, by 2029/30, while completions of new purpose-built student accommodation are expected to be 79% below student additions over the next five years (JLL, December 2025).

Median furnished room rents by country were €690 in Germany (+3%), €635 in Spain (+5.8%), €610 in Italy (-3.2%) and €900 in the Netherlands (+0.1%). These figures are a guide to national trends and do not represent each country as a whole, as they cover between two and seven cities per country.

Among the 24 cities with room data, rents increased most in Düsseldorf (€699, +12.9%), Stuttgart (€540, +10.2%), Hamburg (€850, +9.7%), Valencia (€450, +7.1%) and Madrid (€660, +6.5%). The largest drops were in Cologne (€790, -5.6%), Amsterdam (€1,000, -4.8%), Milan (€650, -4.4%), Brussels (€650, -4.4%) and Bologna (€670, -4.3%). Rents were broadly flat, within 1%, in Florence (€600, 0.0%), Vienna (€619, -0.2%) and Lisbon (€560, +0.9%).

Cities also differ within countries. All three Spanish cities recorded increases, while in Germany rents rose in six of seven cities and dropped in Cologne. In the Netherlands, the stable national figure combines a drop in Amsterdam with an increase in Rotterdam (€884, +4.0%).

The median furnished studio rent is €1,100, down 3.7% from €1,142 a year ago and 4.4% below Q3 2024 (€1,150). In August, there were 27.1 interested students per studio, 5% fewer than a year ago (28.6) and 59% more than in May (17.1).

Studio rents dropped most in Milan (€1,100, -8.3%), Bologna (€1,300, -7.1%), Athens (€750, -6.3%) and Porto (€850, -5.6%). They increased most in Hamburg (€1,400, +29.0%), Rotterdam (€1,700, +28.4%), Prague (€1,028, +13.8%), Budapest (€750, +9.5%), Vienna (€1,090, +8.5%) and Valencia (€1,064, +7.5%). Studio prices are more exposed to sharp price swings as this property type is more scarce and there is limited availability. Amsterdam and Stuttgart are excluded from the studio data due to low inventory.

As university starts across Europe, the peak season for student housing comes to an end. The number of students viewing room listings peaked in August (+19% vs July) and fell 14.3% in September, as students moved into their new homes. Between May and August, 15,000 bookings were made on HousingAnywhere.

Prices eased in Q4 last year, with median room rents moving from €629 to €620 and studio rents from €1,142 to €1,100, and HousingAnywhere expects a similar pattern this year.

Antonio Intini, CEO of HousingAnywhere, says: “Room rents were stable across European student cities this summer, but finding a room before the semester started was still challenging due to high competition. On our platform, there were 14.5 interested students per room in August. As university starts, we can expect competition to ease, but searching early to avoid the summer rush will matter again for the next peak season. In this context, platforms like ours, where students can book a home safely online, can help international students secure housing even in tight housing markets.”

Students on HousingAnywhere can search by city and by university. An online guarantor is available in some countries, and some cities have no-deposit options. Tenant protection keeps a student’s first payment safe: HousingAnywhere does not transfer it to the landlord until 48 hours after the move-in date.

About the HousingAnywhere International Rent Index by City Q3 2026

For this 33rd quarterly edition of the HousingAnywhere International Rent Index by City, HousingAnywhere analyzed 44,862 properties that were listed and received interest from potential tenants on the platform in Q3 2026 or Q3 2025. The report analyzed private rooms and studios located across 25 European cities, in 11 countries.

Approximately 99% of the properties were fully furnished and 66% included bills in their rent, with all listings mainly geared towards servicing students relocating within and across borders.

The available properties in HousingAnywhere are listed by private owners and real estate agents listing their available spaces directly. The platform does not include properties offered by housing corporations or other types of non-profit organizations, which generally have lower rental prices.

Rent prices and square meter prices are calculated based on the data provided by property providers when listing on HousingAnywhere. The absolute rent price of a city is calculated by a median. The price per square meter is calculated by dividing the median absolute price of a property type by the median size.

The year-on-year variation in rent prices at a European level is calculated as the difference between the median rent price across all cities this year and last year. Aiming to provide a robust dataset, cities with less than 40 units in a quarter in one of the property types analyzed were excluded from the report. For this reason, the cities of Amsterdam and Stuttgart were excluded from the studio section of the report due to low inventory. Prague was excluded from the room section due to changes in the type of inventory acquired in the platform impacting the city’s median heavily.

These are the 25 cities included in this edition of the report: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Florence, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Köln, Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Porto, Prague, Rome, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Turin, Valencia, Vienna.

The report is available in English, Dutch, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Check the Rent Index FAQ page for more information on the report’s methodology.

Note on data revisions

Starting with this edition, the HousingAnywhere Rent Index uses retrospective data updates. Each time we publish a new report, we recalculate the data for all historical quarters. The data for each quarter is extracted on the 25th of the last month of that quarter. If a listing is later removed from our platform because of suspected fraud, incorrect or incomplete information, or duplication, we also remove it from the data of past quarters. As a result, the figures for earlier quarters can differ from those in previous reports. These changes are small, and the trends reported before still hold.

About HousingAnywhere

HousingAnywhere is Europe's leading rental platform for students. The marketplace offers a safe, online booking experience by connecting students from around the world with verified property providers across 125 European cities. Advertisers (from landlords to property managers) list their rooms, apartments and studios and collect their rent safely, while tenants stay protected online. HousingAnywhere users are usually 18–35 year-old students seeking mid-term rentals (6–12 months) to unlock the potential of the next chapter in their lives.

The HousingAnywhere Group represents three student-focused brands: HousingAnywhere (Europe), Kamernet (the Netherlands) and Studapart (France). In 2024, the HousingAnywhere and Studapart marketplaces collectively generated 60,000 bookings, and Kamernet had 80,000 paying subscribers. Headquartered in Rotterdam, the company employs 250 professionals.

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