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Apartments, rooms and studios for rent in Leiden
289 homes available in Leiden right now, updated in real time from 46 sources across the biggest Dutch portals.
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Studio, Leiden
📍 2312 ZT Leiden (Transvaalbuurt)
🗓 Published on 13.10.2026
€953/month
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Save this searchWhat renting in Leiden actually costs
Across the 310 homes we currently track in Leiden, the median advertised rent is €1.932 a month, and half of them sit between €1.260 and €2.250. 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 | 239 | 1.895 | 27.5 (239) |
| Houses | 51 | 2.080 | 28.9 (51) |
| Rooms | 17 | 750 | - |
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.
18.8 % 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.
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Measured on 2026-10-24 across 310 active listings.
Before you apply in Leiden
Three things that decide whether an application works here, explained in full.
- 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.
- Income requirements for renting in the Netherlands (2026)Free-sector landlords ask for 3 to 4 times the bare rent, in gross monthly income. Which rent, which income, and what to do when you do not reach it.
- 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.
Leiden has the oldest university in the Netherlands and a compact historic centre, which means a limited housing stock facing constant student and academic demand. It also sits between Amsterdam and The Hague, so it attracts people who work in either and prefer a smaller city. In Leiden, listings are few enough that missing one costs real time.