Houses for Rent in Haarlem

Houses for rent in Haarlem, Netherlands, average €2,882 a month for 125 m², based on over 2,100 listings tracked by RentHunter in Haarlem since February 2024. That is 7% below the Amsterdam average of €3,097, and 66% of Haarlem house listings mention a garden, the main reason families swap an Amsterdam flat for a house to rent here.

Imagine a family house in Haarlem-Noord, bikes in the back garden, Amsterdam 19 minutes away by public transit. 84% of Haarlem house listings state that you can register at the address and none target students: this part of the Haarlem housing market serves families and established professionals.

Haarlem house rentals split on two questions: how much furniture comes with the house, and how much outdoor space.

Furnished houses make up 46% of Haarlem house listings, and 11% of listings target expats on a contract: start with furnished houses in Haarlem. The rest are let gestoffeerd, with floors, curtains and light fittings but no furniture, or kaal, an empty shell where you may have to lay the floor yourself.

In Haarlem, 66% of house listings mention a garden and 20% a balcony. Row houses usually have a small back garden; larger detached houses sit mostly toward Haarlem-Zuid and the dunes, where the top 10% of listings ask more than €3,995 and you enter the range of luxury houses in Haarlem.

• Haarlem-Noord, around the Kleverpark Haarlem-Noord has streets of family row houses with back gardens just north of the railway, close to Haarlem station and the Kleverpark. It suits commuters with children.
• Haarlem-Zuid, by the Haarlemmerhout Haarlem-Zuid has larger, older houses around the Haarlemmerhout park and toward Heemstede, and sits at the top of the Haarlem rent range.
• Zuid-West, toward the dunes Haarlem Zuid-West runs toward Bloemendaal and the dunes, for families who want the beach within cycling distance. Compare with houses in Bloemendaal across the border.
• Schalkwijk, post-war homes east of the Spaarne Schalkwijk offers post-war row houses with gardens, the Schalkstad shopping center and the R-net bus 300 to Schiphol, useful for airport jobs.

Haarlem house rents climb with each bedroom: €1,985 a month for one bedroom (124 listings), €2,283 for two (366), €2,804 for three (684), €3,120 for four (522) and €3,549 for five (278). 80% of listings ask between €1,850 and €3,995, and a three-bedroom family house is the most common. Dutch listings count the living room as a kamer, so three bedrooms appear as a 4-kamer house.

RentHunter sees about 10 new Haarlem houses a week (28 days to November 2026), with a median asking rent of €2,950 for houses first seen in the 90 days to November 2026. Reply the day a house appears.

The average deposit on a Haarlem house is 1.58 months of rent; for leases signed since 1 July 2023 the legal cap is two months. A makelaar working for the landlord may not charge you a fee. After the move, register with the Gemeente Haarlem within 5 days; a first registration from abroad is booked on the gemeente website.