Apartments, rooms and studios for rent in Vlissingen

Vlissingen is a port town of 44,394 people on the south coast of Walcheren in Zeeland, where container ships pass the Boulevard de Ruyter on their way up the Westerschelde to Antwerp. To rent in Vlissingen is to choose between harbor flats, family houses in the outer districts and student rooms for the HZ University of Applied Sciences, and to rent an apartment in Vlissingen is the most common case. Based on over 1,200 listings tracked in Vlissingen since February 2024, the average rent is €1,003 a month, with 80% of listings between €450 and €1,498 and an average surface of 69 m².

Apartments make up 66% of these listings, the largest segment of the Vlissingen rental market by far. About 15 homes in Vlissingen are newly listed per week on RentHunter (28 days to October 2026), and the median asking rent of new listings is €812 (90 days to October 2026).

Asking rents for new listings are 12% higher than three months earlier and 20% higher than a year earlier. A budget based on last year's listings will fall short, so check current asking rents before you plan a move.

• Apartments: 66% of listings at €980 Apartments in Vlissingen average €980 a month for 71 m², across 846 listings. Expect postwar flats in districts such as Paauwenburg, and newer buildings with harbor or sea views along the Boulevard and in the Scheldekwartier, the district built on the grounds of the former De Schelde shipyard. Browse apartments in Vlissingen to compare what is listed now.
  30% of all listings mention a balcony, so outdoor space with a flat is common but never a given. On the Boulevard, ask which side the balcony faces: the southwest wind off the Westerschelde decides how often you will sit outside.
• Houses: 106 m² for €1,580 Houses in Vlissingen average €1,580 a month for 106 m², across 219 listings, or 17% of the market. Look for them in the residential districts outside the old center, such as Oost-Souburg and Groot Abeele; 28% of all listings mention a garden. If you need three bedrooms or a garden for children, start with houses for rent in Vlissingen.
  A house costs about €600 more per month than an apartment in Vlissingen, for 35 m² more space.
• Rooms at €486, studios at €704 Rooms are the cheapest way into Vlissingen: 186 listings at an average €486 a month for 25 m², and 10% of all listings target students. Studios are scarce, with 37 listings at €704 for 35 m². A studio is a self-contained unit with its own kitchen and bathroom, which explains the jump in price from a room. Arriving for the academic year at the HZ? Start with rooms in Vlissingen well before September.

Deposits in Vlissingen are low: the average across these listings is 0.84 months of rent, well under the legal cap of two months of base rent for leases signed since 1 July 2023. On a €980 apartment that is roughly €820 up front, on top of the first month's rent.

26% of listings are furnished. The others are gestoffeerd, with floors, curtains and light fittings but no furniture, or kaal, an empty shell where you lay the floor yourself. Ask which one it is before a viewing, because new flooring for 71 m² is a real expense.

Parking comes up in 24% of listings and 6% are aimed at expats. Pets are the hardest point: 2% of listings say pets are allowed, so a dog owner should ask the landlord directly.

Vlissingen is a working port town first and a beach town second: the Boulevard looks out on the shipping lane to Antwerp, and the old center still wraps around its inner harbors. Renters here are HZ students, people who work in the port and the shipyards, and households from other parts of the country who come for the sea and for the space a Randstad budget buys in Zeeland.

Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland, is the next town on the railway from Vlissingen station, after the stop at Vlissingen Souburg, and it is home to the provincial government and University College Roosevelt. Cycling along the Kanaal door Walcheren is the other daily route between the two towns. If nothing suitable shows up in Vlissingen, compare rentals in Middelburg, the closest alternative on Walcheren.

Daily life in Vlissingen runs along the Boulevard, where the beach starts at the edge of the center, through the Walstraat, the main shopping street, and on the café terraces of Bellamypark. West of the center, runners and dog owners head for the Nollebos woods and the beach along the Nolledijk. The coastal villages of Veere, such as Zoutelande and Domburg, are within cycling distance through the dunes and have rental listings of their own.

Vlissingen station is the western end of the railway through Zeeland: trains leave from the harbor, next to the ferry for foot passengers and cyclists to Breskens, and run via Middelburg and Goes towards Roosendaal. Rotterdam, the nearest large city, is 133 km away, so a daily commute to the Randstad from Vlissingen is a serious commitment.

Rotterdam is the closest large city to Vlissingen, 133 km away and reached by train via Roosendaal. The trip is long enough that it suits a hybrid job with two or three office days a week better than a daily commute. Check your exact hours in the NS journey planner before you sign a lease on that basis.

The ferry from Vlissingen to Breskens, in the municipality of Sluis, carries foot passengers and cyclists across the Westerschelde to Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. People who work on the other side can live in Vlissingen and cross by boat instead of driving round through the Westerscheldetunnel. The ferry leaves next to Vlissingen station, so a train and boat commute works too.

Den Haag (156 km), Eindhoven (158 km), Utrecht (192 km) and Amsterdam (219 km) are all reachable from Vlissingen by train. For these cities, renting in Vlissingen works mainly if you work from home and travel to the office once a week or less.