Houses for Rent in Goes

Houses for rent in Goes are family homes with space and a garden at a Zeeland price. Based on over 100 listings tracked by RentHunter in Goes since February 2024, a rental house averages €1,442 a month for 106 m², and 71% of listings mention a garden.

Goes is the market town of Zuid-Beveland, with 37,274 inhabitants in the middle of Zeeland, and its rental houses follow its families. Three-bedroom homes make up the bulk of the listings, 7% of listings target expats and 17% are furnished, so most landlords write for working households, couples and families moving within the province.

A house to rent in Goes also works for one or two office days in the Randstad: Rotterdam is about 86 minutes away by public transit, the quickest big-city link from the town. If a whole house is more than you need, the apartments for rent in Goes are the smaller step.

1. Average rent: €1,442 a month
   A rental house in Goes costs €1,442 a month on average, and 80% of listings ask between €764 and €1,915. A family house below €764 is rare, and anything above €1,915 belongs to the top tenth of the Goes market.
2. Surface: 106 m² on average
   The average Goes rental house measures 106 m², the size of a terraced family house with a living room, a kitchen and three bedrooms over two floors. Dutch listings count rooms including the living room, so a house with four rooms (4 kamers) has three bedrooms.
3. Three bedrooms €1,413, four bedrooms €1,730
   Three-bedroom houses are the standard product in Goes: 94 listings at an average of €1,413 a month. A fourth bedroom lifts the average to €1,730, based on 35 listings. Smaller houses are rarer: two bedrooms average €1,208 over 23 listings, one bedroom €1,062 over 16.
4. Furnished: 17% of house listings
   One Goes house listing in six is furnished (17%), which suits a household on a contract of a year or two. The other houses come unfurnished (kaal) or gestoffeerd, meaning floors, curtains and lighting are in place but there is no furniture. For a furnished house in the provincial capital, compare the furnished houses in Middelburg.
5. Garden 71%, parking 46%, balcony 10%
   Outdoor space is the selling point of a Goes rental house: 71% of listings mention a garden, 46% mention parking and 10% a balcony. Many Goes residents drive to work across Zuid-Beveland, so a driveway or a parking space is worth asking about at the first contact.

Houses for rent in Goes range from townhouses in the old centre to family streets around it and village homes in the wider municipality. The town is compact, so the choice comes down to garden size, parking and the distance to the station.

The old centre of Goes, around the Grote Markt and the Grote Kerk, has narrow townhouses and homes above former shops, a few minutes' walk from the old harbour. Gardens are small or replaced by a courtyard and parking is scarce, so the centre suits couples without a car more than a family with two.

The residential districts that ring the old town of Goes hold most of the family houses with a back garden, terraced and semi-detached homes on quiet streets. A house there puts primary schools, sports clubs and supermarkets within cycling distance, and the station on the south side of the centre stays a short ride away.

The municipality of Goes also covers villages such as Kloetinge, just southeast of the town, and Wolphaartsdijk on the Veerse Meer. Village houses tend to come with more garden and fewer neighbours, and a car becomes part of daily life. Further afield, compare houses in Borsele, southwest of Goes.

Renting a house in Goes follows national Dutch rules, and a few of them weigh more on a family move. Sort out registration, documents and the lease type before the first viewing.

Every new resident of a rented house in Goes registers with the gemeente Goes within 5 days of the move: by appointment at the town hall for a first registration from abroad, online with DigiD for a move within the Netherlands. 86% of house listings state that registration is possible; with the others, ask before you sign, since you need it for your BSN, healthcare and benefits.

Landlords of houses in Goes usually ask for ID, an employment contract or other proof of income, recent payslips and often a reference from your current landlord. Many apply an income rule of three to four times the monthly rent, so check your income against the €1,413 average for a three-bedroom house before you apply, and keep the documents ready as PDF files to reply on the same day.

A lease for a house in Goes is open-ended by default since 1 July 2024, with exceptions such as student and youth contracts. Read the notice period and the garden clause carefully: a house lease usually puts mowing, hedge trimming and small repairs on the tenant.