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What renting in Groningen actually costs

Across the 397 homes we currently track in Groningen, the median advertised rent is €800 a month, and half of them sit between €650 and €1.233. These figures come from our own listings and are at most an hour old, so they follow the market rather than the day someone wrote about it.

By type of home

Type	Listings	Median rent	Per m²
Apartments	246	1.072	28.1 (244)
Rooms	121	635	36.9 (116)
Houses	24	1.700	-

Prices per square metre are worked out listing by listing, then taken at the median. The figure in brackets is the number of listings that publish a surface area.

63.0 % of the independent homes advertised here stay below €1.228,07, the threshold beneath which a legal maximum rent can apply. Rooms are governed by a separate scale of their own.

Compare with the rest of the Netherlands

Measured on 2026-10-24 across 397 active listings.

Before you apply in Groningen

Three things that decide whether an application works here, explained in full.

Is my rent legal in the Netherlands? The points system explained (2026)In the Netherlands the rent is not free to set: a points system fixes a legal maximum for most homes. How to check yours, what your own maximum depends on, and which deadline applies to you.
Huurtoeslag: the Dutch housing benefit for newcomers (2026)The Dutch tax office pays part of the rent of tenants with a modest income in a self-contained home. The 2026 conditions (age, income, assets, residence permit, type of home) and how to apply, with the official figures.
Rental application documents in the Netherlands (2026)Dutch landlords ask for an employer statement, three payslips and three months of bank statements, and expect a gross income of 3 to 4 times the rent. What each document is, and where to get it.

Groningen is a student city before anything else: its university and its colleges shape the calendar, and the rental market moves with them. Rooms and shared flats make up much of the supply, and competition peaks in the weeks before the academic year begins. If you are arriving in Groningen to study, starting the search early in the summer changes far more than anything you can write in a message.

Nearby cities

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