Apartments, rooms and studios for rent in Hulst

Rent in Hulst and you live inside a ring of ramparts in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the part of Zeeland south of the Westerschelde, a few kilometres from the Belgian border. Hulst has 27,395 inhabitants and no railway station. The rental market is made of apartments and family houses: student rooms do not show up in the figures at all.

Based on over 100 listings tracked in Hulst since February 2024 on RentHunter, the average rent is €1,197 a month and 80% of listings sit between €589 and €1,500. The average home measures 91 m². An apartment in Hulst costs around €1,185, 16% less than the €1,411 average for an apartment in Breda, the nearest big city.

• Apartments: 105 listings at €1,185 An apartment in Hulst averages €1,185 a month for 98 m², based on 105 apartment listings, which makes the apartment the most available type of home in town. At 98 m², the average apartment is about as large as the average house (97 m²), so choosing an apartment in Hulst rarely means giving up space. Browse apartments for rent in Hulst to see the current apartment rental listings.
• Houses: 48 listings at €1,463 A house in Hulst averages €1,463 a month for 97 m², across 48 house listings, 28% of the market. The gap with an apartment is €278 a month for almost the same surface, so the extra rent pays for a front door of your own and, in 33% of all listings, a garden. Houses come up less often than apartments, so a family that wants one should check new listings every day.
• Furnished or bare: 43% come furnished In Hulst, 43% of listings are offered furnished. The rest come kaal, an empty shell, or gestoffeerd, meaning with floors, curtains and light fittings but no furniture. Ask which one applies before a viewing: a furnished apartment and a bare one at the same rent are very different deals.

Hulst is the main town of eastern Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, and daily life looks south to Belgium as much as north to the rest of Zeeland. Belgian visitors fill the centre at weekends, and Flemish is heard as often as Dutch on the terraces.

Hulst has no railway station, so a commute from Hulst runs by car, bus or bike. Buses link Hulst with Terneuzen, the port town of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and the nearest place with a larger rental supply. From the Terneuzen side, the Westerscheldetunnel crosses under the estuary to Borsele on Zuid-Beveland, the road to Goes and Middelburg. Antwerp, across the border, is closer by road than any large Dutch city.

Daily life in Hulst centres on the Grote Markt and the streets inside the old ramparts, where the tower of the Sint-Willibrordusbasiliek rises above the rooftops. The square and the streets around it are lined with restaurant terraces and shops that stay busy with Belgian visitors. For a walk or a run, the earthen walls and moats make a full loop around the old town, and the polders start right outside them.