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What renting in The Hague actually costs

Across the 1,193 homes we currently track in The Hague, the median advertised rent is €2.200 a month, and half of them sit between €1.500 and €2.750. 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	1,038	2.200	23.9 (1,038)
Houses	95	3.250	21.4 (95)
Rooms	51	808	46.4 (49)

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.

16.0 % 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 2026-10-25 across 1,193 active listings.

Before you apply in The Hague

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

Moving to the Netherlands: BSN, registration and the housing catch (2026)Registering with your municipality gives you a BSN, but it requires an address, and an address requires housing that often asks for a BSN. How to break the loop, in order.
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.

The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government and of a dense cluster of international institutions, embassies and courts, so a large share of its tenants arrive from abroad on a contract. Agencies here are used to foreign applicants and to the paperwork that comes with them. In The Hague, the practical question is less whether an agency will consider you than whether your file is complete on the day you write.

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