Houses for Rent in Utrecht

Utrecht houses for rent average €2,430 a month for 111 m², based on over 3,200 house listings tracked by RentHunter since February 2024. The Utrecht house market is a family market: 63% of listings mention a garden and 40% parking, while 1% target students, who usually look at rooms for rent in Utrecht instead.

49% of house listings are furnished and 15% are written for expats, so a family on a work assignment can rent a house ready to live in. Registration at the address is possible according to 83% of listings; you need it to get a BSN (citizen service number), so ask before the viewing.

Prices span a wide range, with 80% of listings between €1,570 and €3,250. If you need neither a garden nor three bedrooms, compare apartments for rent in Utrecht; in the old center, a Utrecht apartment or a Utrecht studio is far more common than a house.

Utrecht family housing sits mostly outside the Singel, in districts with their own schools, parks and railway stations. Across the city, 19% of house listings mention a balcony and 4% say pets are allowed.

Leidsche Rijn and neighboring Vleuten-De Meern, west of the A2, are Utrecht's newest districts, built from the late 1990s with terraced family houses, back gardens and primary schools close by. Three stations, Utrecht Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht Terwijde and Vleuten, connect them to Utrecht Centraal.

Tuindorp, in Utrecht's north-east, is a garden village built between the two world wars, with detached and semi-detached houses on wide, green streets. Look here for a larger house with a front and back garden within cycling distance of the center.

Lunetten, in the south-east by the A12 and A27, takes its name from the old forts of the Dutch water line at its edge and has its own station, Utrecht Lunetten. Its family houses from the 1970s and 1980s are a short bike ride from Utrecht Science Park, which suits university and hospital staff who move with children.

• One bedroom: about €1,796 One-bedroom houses in Utrecht average €1,796 a month across 269 listings, a small niche for couples.
• Two or three bedrooms: €2,240 to €2,358 Two-bedroom houses average €2,240 (656 listings) and three-bedroom houses €2,358 (1,011 listings), the size most families rent. The gap between the two is small, so a third bedroom adds little to the rent.
• Four or five bedrooms: €2,703 to €3,057 Four-bedroom houses average €2,703 (808 listings) and five-bedroom houses €3,057 (284 listings). The top tenth of the Utrecht house market asks more than €3,250.
• Furnished houses: 49% of listings A furnished house in Utrecht lets a family move in straight from the airport, and 49% of house listings come furnished: browse furnished houses in Utrecht.

Commuting from Utrecht is simple because Utrecht Centraal is the hub of the Dutch rail network, so one partner can work in Amsterdam and the other in Rotterdam from the same house. Times are by public transport, from Google Routes.

Amsterdam is about 32 minutes away (40 km), Den Haag about 40 (60 km) and Rotterdam about 42 (56 km), so the three largest Dutch cities stay within a daily commute from a Utrecht house.

Eindhoven is about 56 minutes away (81 km), a commute for engineers at the tech companies of the Brainport region. Groningen, about 114 minutes away (192 km), is a day trip rather than a commute.