Apartments and flats for Rent in Bloemendaal

An apartment for rent in Bloemendaal puts you between Haarlem and the dunes of the Zuid-Kennemerland National Park, in a Noord-Holland municipality better known for villas than for flats. Based on over 200 apartment listings tracked by RentHunter in Bloemendaal since March 2024, the average rent is €2,106 a month for 97 m², and 80% of listings ask between €1,189 and €3,000.

The surface explains much of the price. At 97 m², the average apartment here has room for a home office or a child's bedroom, 47% of listings mention a balcony and 25% mention a garden. Compared with Haarlem, where an apartment averages €1,977, you pay 7% more, about €129 a month, for the dunes and the beach at Bloemendaal aan Zee within cycling distance.

The renters are expats, couples and small families: 18% of listings target expats and 33% are furnished. Trains from Bloemendaal and Overveen stations reach Haarlem in a few minutes, and from Haarlem the intercity runs on to Amsterdam.

The number of bedrooms sets the rent of a Bloemendaal apartment more than anything else: each extra bedroom adds roughly €740 to €790 a month.

A one-bedroom apartment in Bloemendaal averages €1,556 a month across 93 listings, the entry point for a single professional or a couple. Picture coming home by train to Bloemendaal station and walking into the dunes before dinner: that is the routine this budget buys.

Two-bedroom flats are the most common in Bloemendaal, with 104 listings averaging €2,294 a month. They suit a couple with one child or two people who each need a home office. Three-bedroom apartments are rarer, 24 listings at €3,085 on average, and at that price a family should also compare the houses for rent in Bloemendaal.

33% of Bloemendaal apartment listings are furnished, useful for the 18% of listings aimed at expats arriving on a corporate relocation. The others come unfurnished or gestoffeerd, with floors and curtains but no furniture, and suit renters who plan to stay. Since 1 July 2024 leases are open-ended by default, with fixed terms only in exceptions such as student and youth contracts, so check the contract type of a furnished flat before you sign.

• Bloemendaal village, by the station and Caprera Bloemendaal village has a small centre with shops and cafés, a station with trains to Haarlem and the open-air theatre Caprera, where summer concerts play in a dune valley. It suits professionals who want to walk to the train and to the dunes.
• Overveen, next to Haarlem and Elswout Overveen sits against the western edge of Haarlem, with the wooded Elswout estate close by and a station on the line to Zandvoort. Imagine a short bike ride to Haarlem's Grote Markt on Saturday and the train to the beach on Sunday.
• Aerdenhout, the villa district by Heemstede Aerdenhout is the villa district in the south, where apartments are few and quiet, and the Heemstede-Aerdenhout station is nearby. If the budget does not stretch that far, the apartments for rent in Heemstede are just across the border.
• Vogelenzang and Bentveld, the car-friendly south Vogelenzang borders the bulb fields to the south, and Bentveld lies between Aerdenhout and Zandvoort. Both are small and green with few shops, so a car helps, and 27% of Bloemendaal apartment listings mention parking.

Renting an apartment in Bloemendaal costs €2,106 a month on average, €129 more than the €1,977 average in Haarlem. The average deposit is 1.38 months, about €2,906 at the average rent, within the legal cap of two months of base rent for leases signed since 1 July 2023. Add the first month and you need around €5,000 when you collect the keys.

Imagine you find a two-bedroom flat near Bloemendaal station on a Tuesday: the landlord will ask for a passport, an employment contract, recent payslips and often an employer's statement before choosing a tenant. A makelaar working for the landlord may not charge you a fee, so refuse any contract costs.

73% of listings state that registration is possible. You register with the gemeente Bloemendaal within 5 days of moving in: by appointment for a first registration from abroad, online with DigiD for a move within the Netherlands. To see new flats as soon as they are listed, follow all rentals in Bloemendaal.