Apartments, rooms and studios for rent in Zundert

Rent in Zundert and you will most likely rent a house: based on over 100 listings tracked by RentHunter since March 2024, houses make up 59% of the rental market and apartments 37%. The overall average rent is €1,357 a month, with 80% of listings between €503 and €2,000, and the average home measures 91 m².

Zundert is a municipality of 21,657 inhabitants on the Belgian border in western Noord-Brabant, between Breda and Antwerp. It groups five villages, Zundert, Rijsbergen, Klein-Zundert, Achtmaal and Wernhout, set among tree nurseries, farmland and woods. The renters who land here are mostly families and couples who work in Breda or the wider region and want room outside: 60% of listings mention a garden and 52% mention parking.

Beyond the Netherlands, Zundert is known as the birthplace of Vincent van Gogh and for its Bloemencorso, the dahlia parade on the first Sunday of September. To understand the rental market, the practical facts matter more: there is no train station, the bus runs to Breda, and a house here rents for 24% less than in Breda.

• Houses: 59% of the market, 112 m² Houses are the core of the Zundert rental market, with 112 listings at an average of €1,621 a month for 112 m². That is 24% cheaper than a house in Breda, where houses average €2,135. Most are family houses with a garden in one of the five villages; browse houses for rent in Zundert for the current offer and the details of each home.
• Apartments: 37% of the market, 63 m² Apartments account for 71 listings in Zundert, at €1,038 a month on average for 63 m². An apartment suits singles, couples and older residents who want to stay in the village without a garden to keep up. Furnished letting does exist: 16% of all Zundert listings are furnished and 19% mention a balcony, so check the details of each listing for both.
• Rooms and social housing: outside these listings Rooms are scarce in Zundert, which has no college or university; students at the universities of applied sciences in Breda usually rent their rooms in the city itself. Social rental homes in Zundert are allocated through a regional waiting list and are not among these listings. To get one, you need to register with the regional housing allocation system, often years in advance.

Zundert is a green border municipality where most residents live in one of five villages and many work in Breda, Etten-Leur or the local tree nurseries. Daily life is quieter than in a city and more car-based, and neighbours tend to know each other through schools, sports clubs and the corso teams. If you want a larger town nearby with more shops, Etten-Leur lies just north of Rijsbergen.

Zundert has no train station, so the bus to Breda station is the main public transport link for anyone without a car. From Breda, trains run to Rotterdam, Eindhoven and the rest of the country, and the bus ride is part of every trip. Over half of listings, 52%, mention parking, which shows how many residents also drive.

Village life in Zundert centres on the Markt, where the Van Gogh Huis stands on the site of the parsonage in which Vincent was born in 1853, with Zadkine's statue of Vincent and Theo nearby. On the first Sunday of September the Bloemencorso parades huge floats covered in dahlias, built over the summer by teams from the different hamlets, and many residents spend their evenings helping. The tree nurseries around the villages are a large local employer, and the woods and heath towards the Belgian border are a short bike ride from most addresses.

Commuting from Zundert by public transport always starts with a bus to Breda station, so door-to-door times are longer than the distances suggest. To read the times below correctly: they are Google public transport times between town centres.

Rotterdam is 65 km from Zundert and about 78 minutes away by public transport, with the bus to Breda and a fast train onward. It is the most realistic Randstad city for a daily commute from Zundert, and the train part of the trip leaves time to work or read.

Den Haag, 87 km away, takes about 94 minutes, and Eindhoven, 77 km away, about 104 minutes, both with a change in Breda. These trips suit a hybrid schedule with two or three office days a week better than a daily commute.

Utrecht (111 km) and Amsterdam (134 km) are close to two hours away by public transport. Renters who work there every day usually look closer to the office; Breda saves the bus leg and has its own station, but a house there costs €2,135 on average against €1,621 in Zundert.