Houses for Rent in Deventer

A house for rent in Deventer costs €1,390 a month on average for 100 m², and the Deventer house market is a garden market: 63% of house listings mention a garden. Based on over 500 house listings tracked by RentHunter in Deventer since March 2024, 80% ask between €764 and €1,925 a month.

Most of these rental houses are family homes: three-bedroom houses make up more than half of the listings with a bedroom count, while 1% target students. Deventer, a Hanseatic city of 99,295 people on the IJssel in Overijssel, sits between Apeldoorn and Zwolle, and a house here costs 2% more than in Apeldoorn.

Deventer houses for rent sit mostly outside the old center, in districts south and east of the Brink where terraced homes with gardens are the norm. For a room in Deventer or an apartment in Deventer, the center has more choice.

Rivierenwijk, just south of Deventer's center, is an older district whose streets are named after rivers. Its terraced houses with back gardens suit couples who want to cycle to the Brink and the station in a few minutes.

Colmschate is a large residential district east of Deventer's center with its own railway stop, Deventer Colmschate. Family houses with gardens and driveways are the norm, so look here if you need parking, which 31% of house listings mention.

A house in Deventer costs €1,390 a month on average for 100 m², 2% more than the €1,369 average for a house in Apeldoorn. A 2-bedroom house averages €1,269, a 3-bedroom €1,336 and a 4-bedroom €1,782, while a 1-bedroom house averages €1,084.

The current level is a little higher: houses first seen on RentHunter in the 90 days to November 2026 asked a median of €1,425. The average deposit is 0.77 months of rent, and for leases signed since 1 July 2023 a deposit is capped at two months of base rent. 18% of listings are furnished and 5% target expats; for more choice nearby, see furnished houses in Apeldoorn.

79% of listings state that registration is possible, and you register at the gemeente Deventer within 5 days of moving in. Bring payslips, an employment contract and ID to the viewing.

Deventer station has direct trains toward Utrecht and the Randstad, and Colmschate has its own stop.

Utrecht is about 58 minutes from Deventer by public transit (80 km), the quickest big-city commute and realistic for daily office days.

Amsterdam is about 93 minutes from Deventer and Den Haag 96, with Rotterdam at 102. That suits a family with a garden in Deventer and a hybrid job in the Randstad, with two office days a week.