[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-path-rent/groningen":3,"nav-rentals":17},{"title":4,"tag":4,"location":5,"publish_date":6,"excerpt":7,"category":8,"cover_image_id":9,"body_md":10,"meta_title":4,"meta_description":7,"show_in_nav":11,"id":12,"slug":13,"published_at":14,"html":15,"read_minutes":16},"Groningen: Apartments, Rooms, Studios and Houses for Rent","Groningen","2026-07-26","How to find apartments for rent in Groningen, plus rooms, studios and houses: real market data, best neighbourhoods, RUG and Hanze student housing, the 30% ruling, room-permit rules, documents and faster search with AnyHouse.","rentals",41,"### Apartments, Rooms, Studios and Houses for Rent in Groningen\n\nGroningen is the big city of the far north, two hours by train from Amsterdam and largely content to run on its own terms. It has its own economy, its own culture and its own weather, and for most of the year it feels like one of the most liveable places in the country. Then late August arrives, tens of thousands of students pour off the trains at once, and the room market seizes up. In recent years the pressure has been sharp enough that the city has opened temporary shelter beds for students who arrived with nowhere to stay, which tells you how thin supply runs at the peak. That crunch is a student-calendar problem more than a year-round one, and it matters as much to a professional or a family timing a move as it does to a first-year: arrive outside the late-summer spike and the same city behaves very differently.\n\nThe engine behind all of this is scale. The University of Groningen enrols around 32,500 students, roughly a quarter of them international, and Hanze University of Applied Sciences adds close to 28,000 more across its campuses, most of them clustered on the Zernike site to the north. Drop all of that into a municipality of about 245,000 people and you get a city where students make up around a quarter of the population and the average age sits near thirty-six, which the city itself points to as the [youngest in the Netherlands](https://groningen.nl/internationals/about-groningen/city-and-province). Four separate scrambles run at once every autumn: students after rooms, internationals after furnished studios, young professionals after apartments, and the smaller, slower market of families after actual houses.\n\nThe University of Groningen does not sugar-coat the odds either. It tells incoming students in plain language to arrange housing before they arrive and warns that the market is genuinely tight, pointing new arrivals at the screened municipal platform [At Home in Groningen](https://www.athomeingroningen.com/) rather than pretending it will sort them out. When the institution itself is managing expectations downward, take it seriously.\n\nThis is where AnyHouse earns its place. Rather than leave you refreshing a dozen sites, it monitors more than 400 rental platforms at once, flags a matching home the moment it lists, keeps your shortlist and applications together, and can lodge applications on your behalf against the criteria you set.\n\n### Groningen rentals: the short version\n> - **What things cost:** a room averages around €430/month, a studio around €800, and a one-bedroom apartment around €1,100. Ranges run wide, and rooms that were once among the cheapest in the country have been climbing.\n> - **Red flag one:** a landlord who cannot arrange a viewing because they are abroad and wants a deposit before any contract or key handover.\n> - **Red flag two:** a listing priced well below everything comparable, especially one that also appears \"for sale\" on Funda or asks for payment by gift card or crypto.\n> - **Do this first:** students should lock the SSH Groningen registration window into their calendar as soon as their place is confirmed; professionals and families should have a full document pack and live listing alerts ready so they can respond within the hour. Whoever you are, run a private-market search alongside whatever else you do.\n> - **Before you sign:** run the address through the Huurcommissie rent check to see whether the asking rent is even legal (details further down).\n\n```listings\ncountry: NL\ncity: Groningen\ncount: 4\nh1: Fresh rentals in Groningen\nh2: Listings matched to your location and budget\n```\n\nYour next Groningen rental might appear today.\n\nAnyHouse helps you see it faster.\n\n[Get instant rental alerts in Groningen](https://anyhouse.me/)\n\n---\n\n## Current Groningen Rental Market\n\nThe shortage here has a number attached to it, and it is not small: on figures from the national student-housing monitor Kences, reported by the university paper [UKrant](https://ukrant.nl/magazine/twee-erbij-een-eraf-waarom-de-kamernood-in-groningen-maar-aanhoudt/), the city is still short of roughly 1,900 student rooms even after years of building. The pinch is worst at the affordable end, where anything advertised as a room under €500 or a studio under €800 tends to be gone before the ad has finished loading. Because the two institutions keep the top of the funnel permanently full, prices have drifted upward rather than settling, and Groningen's old reputation as the place where students could actually afford to live is now doing more work than the numbers can support.\n\nPublic rent figures rarely agree with one another, and no single source is lying to you. Each platform measures a different slice of stock: furnished mid-term lets, live private listings, rooms, studios or agency inventory. HousingAnywhere, [Pararius](https://www.pararius.com/apartments/groningen) and [Kamernet](https://kamernet.nl/en/for-rent/room-groningen) can each quote a different average for the same city because they are quietly counting different homes. One Groningen wrinkle worth knowing: a room let by [SSH Groningen](https://www.athomeingroningen.com/), the non-profit student housing provider, usually comes furnished and all-in for a fixed maximum term, which trades flexibility for the reassurance of a screened landlord and a price that does not hide surprises.\n\nPrices move in bands, not fixed points, so judge each property type on its own market. A room in the Korrewegwijk, a furnished studio near the Grote Markt, a one-bedroom in Oosterpoort and a family house in Helpman have separate prices, separate timelines and separate levels of competition. A single blended \"Groningen average\" flattens all of that into a number you cannot actually use.\n\n| Property type | Average rent | Typical range | Best for |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Room | €430/month | €350-650/month | Students / budget renters |\n| Studio | €800/month | €650-1,100/month | Solo renters / internationals |\n| Apartment | €1,100/month | €850-1,600/month | Couples / professionals |\n| House | €1,650/month | €1,350-2,500/month | Families |\n\n> These are market ranges gathered from public rental sources. For the most current figures, use the live AnyHouse Groningen data on this page, which reflects what is actually available today rather than a blended historical average.\n\nGroningen is still cheaper than Amsterdam or Utrecht, which is exactly why its room market never gets a quiet season. What it does not have is a wall of nearby big cities to spill demand into. The surrounding towns are small, the trains thin out quickly once you leave the city, and the next comparable rental market is a long way south. That isolation keeps competition concentrated right here, which is why commute planning, registration, contract quality and the legal rent matter as much as the headline number.\n\n## What Makes Groningen Different: A City That Runs on Its Own Clock\n\n\n![groningen-2.jpg](/blog/images/41.jpg)\n*Source: 20090529 Academiegebouw Groningen NL.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons*\n\nA quick \"Groningen is tight\" line would not tell you much. The detail matters here because it explains both why it is so hard and why it might loosen. This is a city built around a four-hundred-year-old university, sitting far enough from the rest of the country that it had to become self-sufficient, and now trying to build its way out of a room shortage on land its old industries left behind. Understanding that shape is what lets you read the map instead of just refreshing it.\n\n### The student ratio is the whole story, and September is when it all lands at once\n\nWhen a quarter of your city is students and two large institutions run a single shared intake, the calendar does the damage. Demand does not rise gently through the year; it spikes in a single fortnight in late August and September when the University of Groningen and Hanze arrivals hit the same streets at once. This is the window when the city has, in recent years, resorted to emergency shelter beds for students who arrived with nowhere to live. The pressure eases through autumn as the crush clears, so the cruel irony is that the worst possible moment to start looking is the exact moment most newcomers first can.\n\n### Room conversion is capped by permit, and by the 15% rule\n\nTurning an ordinary house into rented rooms in Groningen requires a conversion permit (an [omzettingsvergunning](https://gemeente.groningen.nl/omzettingsvergunning-voor-kamerverhuur-aanvragen), historically the onttrekkingsvergunning) whenever three or more people share it as non-independent rooms. The council will not grant one if room-rental homes already make up more than 15% of the dwellings on that street, a threshold built to protect livability. In practice the city has tightened this so far that new conversion permits are now issued only in rare exceptions, which means shared-room supply is effectively frozen and spread thinly across the city. That single policy explains most of why the room queue is what it is.\n\n### The gas-earthquake legacy still shapes the wider province\n\nBeneath the province sits what was once Europe's largest onshore gas field, and decades of extraction triggered induced earthquakes that damaged thousands of homes across the villages north and east of the city. Production was wound down and the field permanently closed in the mid-2020s, but the reinforcement and rebuilding programme rumbles on, and it quietly tightens the regional housing picture: homes under repair are homes not on the market. It rarely touches a student room in the city centre directly, but it is part of why the whole region feels short of stock.\n\n### Suikerzijde and Stadshavens: the supply is coming, just not this September\n\nGroningen's answer to the shortage is ambitious. On the old sugar-factory grounds south-west of the centre, [De Suikerzijde](https://gemeente.groningen.nl/de-suikerzijde) is planned for roughly 5,500 homes, while the new Stadshavens district near the Eemskanaal targets a few thousand more, part of a wider ambition of around 20,000 new homes over the next five to ten years. For anyone renting in 2026 the honest reading is patience: this is where the market eventually breathes, but a masterplan does not hand you keys next month.\n\n### Two hours from the Randstad: the problem and the blessing\n\nGroningen's distance from the western cities is its defining feature. It is a genuine drawback when you want a quick escape to Amsterdam or a job interview in Utrecht, and it means you cannot simply commute in from a cheaper big city the way renters do further south. But it is also why Groningen is a real place rather than a dormitory: it has its own hospital cluster, its own tech and energy employers, a serious music and nightlife scene, and a labour market that does not empty out on Friday afternoon. The isolation concentrates the housing pressure, but it is also what makes the city worth the fight.\n\n## Rooms, Studios, Apartments and Houses in Groningen\n\nMost Groningen renters land in one of four buckets: a room, a studio, an apartment or a house. The useful question is not only which you want, but which you can realistically get inside your budget and your timeline, because in this city those two rarely agree on the first attempt.\n\n### Rooms for Rent in Groningen\n\nRooms are the default for students, exchange students and anyone renting on a tight budget. If you rent a room in Groningen, expect shared facilities: a kitchen, a bathroom, sometimes a living room. Demand spikes viciously around the academic intake, when the combined new arrivals of the University of Groningen and Hanze land in the same neighbourhoods in the same fortnight.\n\nBecause of the conversion-permit cap described above, room supply is limited and clustered. The traditional student pockets are the Korrewegwijk and the neighbouring Indische buurt north of the centre, the streets around Oosterpoort, and Selwerd and Paddepoel out toward the Zernike campus. A distinctly Groningen ritual sits between you and many of these rooms: the hospiteeravond, an evening where current housemates interview candidates and vote on who joins. More on that below, because it genuinely changes how you should apply. Always check whether you can register at the address. Skipping registration can snarl your BSN, bank account, work, study and municipal paperwork, and you are legally required to register a Dutch address once you are here for more than four months.\n\n```listings\ncountry: NL\ncity: Groningen\ncount: 8\ntype: room\nprice:\n  min: 300\n  max: 900\nh1: Fresh rooms in Groningen\nh2: Rooms matched to your location and budget\n```\n\n### Studios for Rent in Groningen\n\nA studio in Groningen is normally self-contained: your own living and sleeping area, bathroom and kitchen. Studios draw solo renters, internationals, PhD candidates and anyone with a bit more budget who wants their own front door rather than a shared one. The catch is that plenty of people want exactly that, so self-contained studios under €800 disappear fast, especially the furnished ones close to the centre and the Zernike side. If your plan is simply to rent a studio in Groningen and skip the shared-kitchen politics of a room, budget for competition rather than choice, particularly in the weeks around the autumn intake.\n\nPaying extra for a furnished studio buys you out of the move-in hassle. Go unfurnished or semi-furnished and the headline rent drops, but flooring, curtains and appliances land on your tab instead. Huurtoeslag (rent benefit) may apply if the studio qualifies and you meet the income and asset tests. From 2026 the rules shifted: the hard rent ceiling was scrapped, the benefit is now calculated on rent up to about €932.93, and the qualifying age dropped to 21, so always confirm on the official [Belastingdienst rent benefit page](https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/belastingdienst/individuals/benefits/moving_to_the_netherlands/i_live_in_a_rented_house/rent-and-service-costs/rent-and-service-costs).\n\n```listings\ncountry: NL\ncity: Groningen\ncount: 8\ntype: studio\nprice:\n  min: 500\n  max: 2000\nh1: Fresh studios in Groningen\nh2: Studios matched to your location and budget\n```\n\n### Apartments and Houses for Rent in Groningen\n\nGroningen's apartment segment belongs mainly to couples, professionals and small families, and the city's non-student economy keeps that market warm year-round. A one-bedroom is already competitive; two-bedrooms draw couples, sharers and relocation clients working at the UMCG hospital, the university itself, and the city's growing energy and digital sectors. Furnished apartments cluster in the expat-facing segment, while semi-furnished ones typically cover just the basics: flooring, curtains, a kitchen.\n\nAlways check whether an apartment's quoted rent is bare, inclusive or exclusive before comparing it to another. Bare rent (kale huur) leaves out utilities and service costs. Rent marked inclusive typically covers only part of it. The advertised figure and the real monthly bill are rarely the same thing, and the gap can run into the hundreds.\n\nHouses for rent are rarer than apartments and tend to sit in the outer neighbourhoods, above all Helpman and Beijum, with more scattered through the villages like Haren. They suit families, groups or long-term renters, and come with higher rent, higher utility bills and stricter income checks.\n\n```listings\ncountry: NL\ncity: Groningen\ncount: 8\nprice:\n  min: 500\n  max: 3000\nh1: Fresh apartments & houses in Groningen\nh2: Apartments and houses matched to your location and budget\n```\n\n## Best Areas in Groningen for Renters\n\n\n![groningen-3.jpg](/blog/images/43.jpg)\n\n*Source: 20110929 Leliesingel Noorderplantsoen Groningen NL.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons*\n\nGroningen is compact and cycle-friendly, and almost nothing is more than fifteen minutes by bike from the centre, which flattens the usual location premium. But it is still not one market. A furnished studio by the Grote Markt, a student room in the Korrewegwijk and a family house in Helpman are three different searches with three different budgets. The neighbourhood you pick sets your rent, your commute to campus and how large a crowd you are fighting for the same key.\n\n### Binnenstad\n\n**Best for:** renters who want to live inside the action and can pay for it. \n\n **Typical rentals:** canal-side apartments, studios and furnished units above shops around the Grote Markt and the old centre. \n\n **Watch out for:** premium prices, small footprints, and cheerful late-night noise around the bar streets.\n\nThis is the historic heart, with the Martinitoren, the markets and the terraces on your doorstep and the entire city walkable. Ideal if you want to step out of your door into Groningen at full volume and can absorb the centre-city premium for the privilege.\n\n### Oosterpoort\n\n**Best for:** students and young professionals who want character a short walk south of the centre. \n\n **Typical rentals:** older terraced homes, rooms and apartments on narrow streets near the station. \n\n **Watch out for:** strong competition and small, older units that go quickly.\n\nJust south-east of the centre and beside the main station, Oosterpoort mixes students, creatives and settled residents around De Oosterpoort, the 1,200-seat concert hall that hands the whole neighbourhood over to Eurosonic Noorderslag each January, when well over two hundred acts play upward of thirty venues across the city centre in a single long weekend. Central without the full Binnenstad price, which is exactly why the good listings do not linger.\n\n### Korrewegwijk and the Indische buurt\n\n**Best for:** students and budget renters after the classic shared-house experience. \n\n **Typical rentals:** rooms and shared houses in older terraces north of the Noorderplantsoen. \n\n **Watch out for:** the most contested room market in the city, and rooms that often come with a hospiteeravond.\n\nNorth of the centre across the canal, this is student heartland, lively and lived-in, with the Noorderplantsoen park as its green lung, and for eleven days every late August that quiet green lung turns into Noorderzon, a performing-arts festival that draws well over 100,000 visitors and fills the park with tents, terraces and late-night crowds. Great value and great atmosphere, but the room turnover here is brutal around intake, so preparation beats luck.\n\n### Selwerd and Paddepoel\n\n**Best for:** students who want to live close to Zernike campus and the science buildings. \n\n **Typical rentals:** post-war apartment blocks, student complexes and larger new-build studios. \n\n **Watch out for:** less charm than the old centre, and a reliance on the bike or bus into town.\n\nNorth-west of the centre on the way to Zernike, these districts are where a lot of purpose-built and complex-style student housing sits, including Proxima, SSH's newest block, built right on Zernike Campus itself. It [opened in 2024 with 401 rooms](https://northerntimes.nl/new-student-complex-opens-on-zernike-campus-with-401-rooms/), and at the height of the autumn crunch it temporarily doubles up its two-bed rooms to house as many as 802 students while they keep hunting for something more permanent, which tells you plenty about how tight the queue still is even after new supply lands. Not postcard-pretty, but hard to beat if your days are spent on campus and you would rather cycle ten minutes than pay centre-city rent.\n\n### Helpman\n\n**Best for:** couples, families and professionals who want space and quiet without leaving the city. \n\n **Typical rentals:** family houses with gardens, larger apartments and settled residential streets. \n\n **Watch out for:** thin free-sector stock that changes hands quietly and rarely stays listed long.\n\nSouth of the centre with a leafy, grown-up feel and good schools nearby, Helpman is the sensible choice for renters who have aged out of the shared house. It is one of the more desirable family areas in the city, so plan to move fast when something appears.\n\n### Beijum\n\n**Best for:** families and longer-term renters who want a house and a garden at a gentler price than Helpman. \n\n **Typical rentals:** 1970s and 80s terraced family houses with gardens, plus low-rise apartments, arranged around green courtyards. \n\n **Watch out for:** it sits on the north-eastern edge, so you lean on the bus or the bike into town, and upkeep varies street by street.\n\nBeijum is the second of the two areas this guide keeps steering families toward, a planned green suburb wrapped around the Beijumerbos woodland and next to the Kardinge sport and recreation area, with its own schools and shops rather than a nightly reason to head into the centre. The city's own neighbourhood-liveability data ([OIS Groningen](https://publicaties.oisgroningen.nl/2023/leefbaarheid-in-de-groningse-wijken-en-dorpen/23-beijum)) reads it as a broadly calm, family-oriented district where residents rate the greenery highly, while noting genuine if localised concerns about upkeep of public space and pockets of socioeconomic strain, so it is worth walking a specific street rather than judging the whole area from a single listing. On space for the money, family houses across Groningen work out at roughly €14 per square metre, so a home near the €1,650 house average lands around 110 to 120 square metres: three bedrooms and a real garden rather than a compromise, which is why families accept the longer ride in.\n\n## Nearby Alternatives: Haren, Assen and the Village Line\n\nIf Groningen's prices or availability refuse to cooperate, the honest news is that your fallback options are thinner here than in the Randstad. Groningen does not sit on a corridor of big cities; it sits at the end of the line, surrounded by small towns. Commuting in is doable, but it usually means a village or a smaller town rather than a second city with its own deep rental market.\n\n- **Haren** - roughly 10 minutes by train just south of the city, greener and calmer, popular with families and often quieter stock.\n- **Assen** - about 18 minutes by train with services every 20 minutes, a proper town with more houses and a lower price level than the city.\n- **Zuidhorn** - around 15 minutes by train to the west, a small commuter town on the line toward Leeuwarden.\n- **Winsum** - roughly 15 minutes by train to the north, a village stop for renters who genuinely prefer the quiet.\n- **Leek and Roden** - just outside the city by bus or car, sometimes cheaper for houses and family space.\n\nUse [NS](https://www.ns.nl/en) and regional operator Arriva for trains and buses, and [9292](https://9292.nl/en) to check any door-to-door journey before you commit. Frequencies drop sharply outside peak hours on the smaller lines, so a commute that looks fine at 8am can look very different at 11pm. A listing photo is easy to fall for. Standing on a dark platform in January rain is a much harder sell than the photo was.\n\n## What You Need to Rent in Groningen\n\nBuild your rental profile before you apply, not after. The best rooms go to whoever shows up complete: payslips, guarantor, enrolment letter, all in one message.\n\n### Documents Landlords Usually Ask For\n\n- Valid ID or passport\n- Proof of income\n- Employment contract or recent payslips\n- Bank statements, sometimes\n- Proof of enrollment, for students\n- Guarantor details, if your income is low or foreign\n- BSN, if already available\n- Short personal introduction\n- Preferred move-in date and household details\n- Pet information, if relevant\n\n### Income, Deposit and Contract Basics\n\nMany landlords want gross income around 3 to 4 times the monthly rent, though this shifts by agency and property. A €1,100 apartment can therefore call for roughly €3,300 to €4,400 gross monthly household income. Student and shared rentals will often take a guarantor instead. Deposits are usually one to two months' rent.\n\nOne factor worth flagging for anyone relocating here to work is the Dutch expat tax break, still widely called the 30% ruling. A recognised employer can pay an eligible skilled migrant part of their salary free of tax: that untaxed portion is 30 percent through 2026 and drops to a flat 27 percent from 1 January 2027, and the scheme only applies above a taxable-salary floor of €48,013 (or €36,497 if you are under 30 and hold a qualifying master's). It reaches a minority of Groningen renters, but a fair share of the UMCG clinicians, university researchers and energy or digital hires the city draws from abroad will qualify. The wrinkle for a rental application is that a landlord measures your gross income, whereas the ruling works on take-home pay, so it will not lift you over a gross-income threshold; it simply frees up more of your monthly take-home, which means a rent that looks stretched on the gross multiple can sit more comfortably than it first appears. Confirm your own position with a tax adviser or the official guidance rather than assuming it applies.\n\nThe [Government.nl rented housing pages](https://www.government.nl/topics/housing/rented-housing) cover the basics of Dutch rental rules, including rent, tenancy agreements, maintenance and service charges. For disputes, the [Huurcommissie](https://www.huurcommissie.nl/) is the official Dutch rent tribunal. Before signing, check:\n\n- Is the contract written?\n- Is the rent bare, inclusive or exclusive?\n- Are service costs clear?\n- Can you register at the address?\n- Is the deposit reasonable?\n- Who is responsible for utilities?\n- Are there agency or administration fees?\n\n### Registration in Groningen\n\nMove to Groningen from abroad for more than four months and you must register with the municipality, as soon as you reasonably can after arrival. Gemeente Groningen's [information for internationals](https://gemeente.groningen.nl/en/housing-foreign-students) explains that you book an appointment at the city office and bring a valid travel document and, where relevant, documents for partners and children registering with you. Registration is what unlocks your BSN, so treat it as a priority in your first weeks, not an afterthought.\n\nAny listing advertising no registration should raise your guard straight away. Stack that alongside pressure tactics, a fuzzy landlord identity, unusual payment methods or no viewing, and the pattern is unmistakable.\n\n### Rental Scams: Newcomers Are the Target\n\nGroningen's student market, like every Dutch student city, draws rental fraud, and the university and the municipality warn incoming students about it in plain terms. The script barely changes: a listing that is too good, a landlord who cannot show you around because they are conveniently overseas, a request for money before any contract or key exchange, then silence. Never pay by gift card or crypto, only transfer to a Dutch bank account belonging to the actual owner or organisation, and if a \"for rent\" property also shows up \"for sale\" on Funda, walk away.\n\n## New to the Netherlands? Start Here (Students & Internationals)\n\nGroningen is one of the most international student cities in the country, so a large share of its renters land here with no Dutch paperwork at all. If this is you, the thing to grasp early is the circular trap that catches nearly every arriving student.\n\n### The chicken-and-egg problem\n\nTo register with the municipality and get a BSN (your citizen service number), you usually need a registered address. To open a full Dutch bank account, life is easier with a BSN. And many landlords want to see a Dutch income, a Dutch guarantor or both before handing over a contract. Every requirement leans on one of the others. It is a genuine loop, and the only way to break it is doing part of it out of sequence.\n\nWhat you can do from abroad right now:\n\n- Line up your documents in English or Dutch: passport, proof of enrolment or your employment contract, and recent proof of income or funds.\n- Ask specifically about registration. Only take a room where you can register at the address, because registration unlocks the BSN, and you are legally required to register once you are here for more than four months.\n- Have a guarantor plan, and be honest about what it costs. Paying a specialist guarantor service or fronting several months' rent are both real options, but each needs cash a genuinely broke student often does not have. The zero-cost alternative is a parent or relative overseas backing you, and it hinges on presentation: give the landlord their income and bank documents already translated into Dutch or English and laid out cleanly, since a landlord staring at paperwork they cannot read, or weighing a cross-border debt they would rather not chase, tends to reach for the next name on the list. Confirm which of these a given landlord will take before you commit.\n- Register with SSH Groningen and At Home in Groningen. SSH offers furnished rooms on fixed-term student contracts and opens registration on fixed dates each spring; those dates shift from year to year but typically fall in April, with room booking following in May, so check the current ones on the SSH site and put them in your calendar the moment you are admitted. At Home in Groningen, the screened municipal platform, runs as a rolling listings site rather than a single opening day, so join it and start watching as early as you can.\n- Check the community channels. ESN Groningen, the university and Hanze housing pages, and the student Facebook and WhatsApp groups regularly carry rooms, sublets and hospiteeravond invitations. These are legitimate paths that work, not a sign of defeat.\n\n### The hospiteeravond, and why it changes your approach\n\nA large slice of Groningen's shared-house rooms are not simply let to the first qualified applicant. Instead the current housemates hold a hospiteeravond, an evening where shortlisted candidates come round, are asked about their studies, habits and hobbies, and are then voted on once everyone has left. It is closer to a flat interview than a viewing, and it means the \"application\" is partly social: they are choosing a housemate, not a tenant. Reply to the advert with a warm, specific introduction, show up on time, be genuinely interested in the people rather than just the room, and treat it as the two-way audition it is. For internationals it can feel odd, but it is a real and long-standing local custom, not a hoop invented to exclude you.\n\n### Paying a deposit safely, and getting it back\n\nPay a deposit only once you have a written contract, and only to the verified bank account of the actual owner or a recognised organisation. Never send a deposit by gift card, crypto or to a private account for a home you have not seen. A deposit is normally one to two months' rent, it should be written into the contract, and it must be returned after you leave once any genuine damage is settled. If a landlord refuses to return a reasonable deposit, the [Huurcommissie](https://www.huurcommissie.nl/) can rule on deposit and rent disputes.\n\n### Arriving without housing\n\nIt happens, and in Groningen it is genuinely risky, because the September crush is the one moment the city has actually run out of beds and opened emergency shelters for students. If you cannot secure a permanent room before you arrive, book a short-stay apartment, a student hotel or a hostel so you have somewhere to sleep while you view places in person, which is far safer than committing to a room sight unseen from another country. Treat it as a deliberate landing pad, not a defeat, and keep your saved searches and alerts running the entire time.\n\n### A simple timeline\n> - **Now:** gather documents, arrange a guarantor or upfront-payment plan, start saved searches and alerts, note the SSH Groningen spring registration dates and join the rolling At Home in Groningen platform.\n> - **Before you fly:** book a short-stay landing pad if you have not secured a room, and shortlist viewings and hospiteeravonden you can attend in your first week.\n> - **First 5 days:** view in person, sign only a written contract, and pay the deposit only to a verified account.\n> - **First month:** register with Gemeente Groningen, collect your BSN, open a Dutch bank account, and run the Huurcommissie rent check on your new address.\n\nBudget for the upfront hit, and keep it firmly separate in your head from the monthly rent, because they are two different numbers that catch people out. The €430 room in the headline is what you pay each month once you are in; the sum you actually need saved to get through the door is larger. Take a room first: roughly €430 for the first month plus a deposit of one to two months (€430 to €860) comes to somewhere around €860 to €1,290, before furniture. Trade up to an €800 studio and the same maths runs to roughly €1,600 to €2,400, and more again if a landlord asks for several months upfront in place of a guarantor.\n\n## Renting as a Family / Relocating with Kids\n\nGroningen works well for families who want space and calm at a price the Randstad cannot match, but the family rental market is smaller and slower than the student one, so early planning pays off.\n\n### Schools: register early, expect waiting lists\n\nFor international primary education inside the city, the **Groningse Schoolvereniging (GSV)**, a parent association founded in 1910 and now the oldest provider of international primary education in the north of the Netherlands, runs the **International Primary School Groningen (IPSG)**, a publicly funded English-language international department for children roughly aged 4 to 11 on a green city campus. For secondary education there is the **International School Groningen (ISG)**, which teaches an international programme through to the diploma years and caps each Middle Years class at 22 students, so an early application buys you a place a late one simply cannot. Between them the city covers international schooling from primary through secondary without a long commute, which is not something every Dutch city outside the Randstad can say. Places are limited, so register as early as you can and expect a waiting list rather than a same-term start.\n\n### Childcare and BSO\n\nFor younger children, daycare (kinderopvang) and after-school care (buitenschoolse opvang, or BSO) are widely used but heavily subscribed. Register well ahead of your move, because popular locations fill months in advance, and check whether you qualify for the national childcare allowance (kinderopvangtoeslag), which reimburses a large share of the cost for working parents.\n\n### What a family home actually costs per month\n\nThe quoted rent covers only part of the bill. For a €1,650 family house, gas, electricity and water typically run €250 to €350 a month, with the energy label doing most of the work in deciding which end you land on. Add municipal and water-board taxes (a few hundred euros a year) and internet and service costs, and a €1,650 house realistically costs €1,950 to €2,100 a month before childcare or schooling enters the picture.\n\n### Contracts: indefinite is now the default\n\nGood news for families who want to put down roots. Since 1 July 2024, under the Fixed-Term Tenancy Act (Wet vaste huurcontracten), an indefinite contract (onbepaalde tijd) is again the default for most new self-contained tenancies, and temporary contracts are only allowed in a limited set of cases such as student housing, a landlord's temporary absence or job-tied housing. An indefinite contract gives strong, lasting security: the landlord can only end it on specific legal grounds. If you are offered a temporary self-contained contract, ask why, because in most situations it should be indefinite.\n\n### Where the family stock is, and bridging the gap\n\nThree-bedroom-plus houses with gardens are concentrated in Helpman to the south and Beijum to the north-east, with more scattered through the village of Haren and the newer Meerstad development east of the city. Free-sector family houses are rare and go quickly, so if your move-in date is fixed, bridging with a furnished short-stay or temporary apartment is often the sensible route: it buys time to view properly and sign the right lease, not just the first one available.\n\n## How to Find Rentals in Groningen Faster\n\nA manual search in Groningen sprawls almost immediately. You are watching Pararius, Kamernet and HousingAnywhere by hand, keeping half an eye on SSH Groningen, At Home in Groningen and the ESN Groningen channels, and dropping into the city and student Facebook groups where landlords and outgoing tenants really do post rooms and sublets. These channels are real and worth checking. The trouble is not any one of them on its own. No one can manually refresh every platform fast enough, at precisely the right minute, to beat the rest of the pool running the same search.\n\n### Why Manual Search Breaks Down\n\n- You check too many platforms by hand\n- You see listings too late\n- You rewrite the same message over and over\n- You miss listings while working, studying or sleeping\n- You lose track of where you applied\n- Every intake, tens of thousands of new students join the same hunt\n- You waste time on listings outside your budget\n\nGroningen rewards speed and preparation, because a quarter of the city is students and two institutions push the renter-to-room ratio hard every intake. When a good room appears, replies land within the hour, and a hospiteeravond can be filled before you have even seen the advert. In this market the queue forms within minutes, not days, and there is no second window for latecomers.\n\n### Faster Search with AnyHouse\n\nAnyHouse folds that scattered hunt into a single workflow, adding the reach, alerts and application tracking you cannot keep up with by hand. With AnyHouse you can:\n\n- Scan 400+ rental platforms\n- Set your Groningen preferences once\n- Get fast alerts when matching homes appear\n- Track listings and applications\n- Use AI-assisted applications\n- Auto-apply to suitable homes based on your criteria\n- Search rooms, studios, apartments and houses from one flow\n\nNo tool can guarantee housing, and be sceptical of anything that says it can. What AnyHouse actually gives you is speed, wider coverage and a single place to stay organised, so you see the right listing in its first minutes, when applying still means something.\n\n```listings\ncountry: NL\ncity: Groningen\ncount: 4\nh1: Fresh rentals in Groningen\nh2: Listings matched to your location and budget\n```\n\nYour next Groningen rental might appear today.\n\nAnyHouse helps you see it faster.\n\n[Get instant rental alerts in Groningen](https://anyhouse.me/)\n\n---\n\nGroningen's reputation for cheap rooms cuts both ways: renters assume any rent here must be fair, and some landlords quietly bank on that. A student city with constant tenant turnover is precisely where overcharging thrives, because each September brings a fresh wave of newcomers who do not yet know their rights and are grateful just to have a roof. Regardless of what a listing asks for, Dutch law puts a legal cap on the rent for a large share of homes, and on shared, non-self-contained rooms almost without exception.\n\nThe cap is computed via the **woningwaarderingsstelsel (WWS)**, a points tally of floor area, facilities, energy label and more. The Affordable Rent Act (Wet betaalbare huur), in force since July 2024, widened the regulated band, so plenty of ordinary Groningen apartments now sit under a legal maximum alongside the rooms that always did.\n\nBefore you sign, feed the address into the official [Huurcommissie Huurprijscheck](https://www.huurcommissie.nl/support/huurprijscheck) to learn the maximum lawful rent. If you are asked for more, you can still take the home and then ask the [Huurcommissie](https://www.huurcommissie.nl/), the rent tribunal, to cut the rent, usually within the first months of the contract. Groningen also has an unusually strong local backstop: the municipal [Steunpunt Huren](https://gemeente.groningen.nl/en/rent-support-center-groningen) and the Groninger Studentenbond huurteam give free rent checks and advice, and have run active rent-reduction campaigns aimed squarely at overcharged students. Use them; that is what they are for.\n\n---\n\n## Groningen Rental FAQ\n\n### How much does it cost to rent in Groningen?\n\nRent depends on property type, area, furnishing and contract style. As a guide: rooms average around €430, studios around €800 and apartments around €1,100 per month, with wide ranges either side, and room prices have been rising. Use live AnyHouse data for the most current market prices, since public sources track different rental stock and show different averages.\n\n### Is it hard to find housing in Groningen?\n\nYes. Groningen is a two-institution student city still short of close to two thousand student rooms, and in recent years the crunch has been sharp enough to open temporary shelter beds for students who arrived with nowhere to sleep. Anything affordable lets almost instantly. Speed and preparation are everything, especially around the late-August and September intake.\n\n### What is a hospiteeravond?\n\nIt is a Groningen and wider Dutch custom where the current housemates of a shared house invite shortlisted candidates round for an evening, ask about your studies, habits and interests, and then vote on who joins. Treat it like a two-way flat interview: be warm, be on time, and show real interest in the people, because they are choosing a housemate, not just a tenant.\n\n### What income do I need to rent in Groningen?\n\nMany landlords expect gross income around 3 to 4 times the monthly rent, although requirements vary. A €1,100 rental may require roughly €3,300 to €4,400 gross monthly household income. Student and shared rentals may accept a guarantor.\n\n### What documents do I need to rent in Groningen?\n\nUsually ID, proof of income, an employment contract or payslips, and sometimes bank statements. Students may need proof of enrollment. Internationals may need residence documentation, employer details and confirmation that registration at the address is possible.\n\n### What are the best areas for students in Groningen?\n\nThe Korrewegwijk and Indische buurt north of the centre and the streets around Oosterpoort are the classic choices, with Selwerd and Paddepoel handy for the Zernike campus and the Binnenstad for those with a bigger budget. Pick based on which side of the city you want, your budget, and whether a room, studio or shared house works for you.\n\n### Where do professionals and families find the best fit?\n\nProfessionals and couples often look at the Binnenstad and Oosterpoort for character close to the centre. Families lean toward Helpman for space and schools, Beijum for larger homes and gardens, or the village feel of Haren just south of the city.\n\n### Is there a tax break for professionals moving to Groningen?\n\nThere can be. Recruited from abroad into a skilled role, you may fall under the Dutch expat scheme, still universally called the 30% ruling: an approved employer hands you a slice of your pay with no tax on it. That slice is 30 percent for 2026, then a flat 27 percent from 1 January 2027, and it only starts above a taxable-salary floor of €48,013, or €36,497 if you are under 30 with a qualifying master's. Because it lifts take-home pay rather than gross, it will not help you clear the gross-income bar a landlord applies, but it quietly widens what you can afford month to month. A good number of the city's UMCG, university and energy or digital hires qualify; check your own position with a tax adviser or the official guidance before banking on it.\n\n### Should I wait for SSH or search privately?\n\nDo both. Register with SSH Groningen and At Home in Groningen the moment your study place is confirmed, since SSH opens on fixed spring dates and At Home in Groningen lists screened rooms on a rolling basis, but do not rely on them alone given how tight supply is. Run a private-market hunt alongside them, with short-stay housing as your fallback if the September crush catches you out.\n\n### Can I live outside Groningen and commute?\n\nYou can, but the options are thinner than further south. Haren is about 10 minutes by train, Assen around 18, and Zuidhorn and Winsum roughly 15, though frequencies drop outside peak hours. There is no nearby second city to spill into, so widening your search usually means a smaller town rather than another big rental market.\n\n### What is the fastest way to find rentals in Groningen?\n\nPrepare your documents, set alerts, reply within minutes and keep track of every application. AnyHouse watches 400+ platforms for you and flags matches the instant they post, so a room does not slip past while you are in a lecture or asleep.\n\n## Start Your Groningen Rental Search\n\nNow you have the real map: Groningen is a student-driven city at the end of the line, cheaper than the Randstad but supply-tight, with a room market frozen by a conversion-permit cap, a hospiteeravond culture that turns applications into interviews, big Suikerzijde and Stadshavens builds that will help later rather than now, scams that target newcomers, and speed as a genuine advantage.\n\nUnderstanding the market will not get you a room; being fast enough to catch a listing in its opening hour will. In Groningen that hour is short, and in September it can be minutes. AnyHouse helps you stop refreshing rental websites by hand: set your preferences, get alerts, track applications and search across rooms, studios, apartments and houses from one place.\n\n```listings\ncountry: NL\ncity: Groningen\ncount: 4\nh1: Fresh rentals in Groningen\nh2: Listings matched to your location and budget\n```\n\nYour next Groningen rental might appear today.\n\nAnyHouse helps you see it faster.\n\n[Get instant rental alerts in Groningen](https://anyhouse.me/)\n\nFree to install · iOS & Android · 400+ platforms · Fast alerts · AI-powered applications\n\n---\n\n## Rental Guides for Other Dutch Cities\n\nHouse-hunting beyond Groningen? AnyHouse has in-depth rental guides for cities across the Netherlands:\n\n- [Amsterdam](https://anyhouse.me/rent/amsterdam)\n- [Rotterdam](https://anyhouse.me/rent/rotterdam)\n- [The Hague](https://anyhouse.me/rent/den-haag)\n- [Utrecht](https://anyhouse.me/rent/utrecht)\n- [Delft](https://anyhouse.me/rent/delft)\n- [Leiden](https://anyhouse.me/rent/leiden)\n- [Almere](https://anyhouse.me/rent/almere)\n- [Breda](https://anyhouse.me/rent/breda)\n- [Tilburg](https://anyhouse.me/rent/tilburg)\n- [Den Bosch](https://anyhouse.me/rent/den-bosch)\n- [Arnhem](https://anyhouse.me/rent/arnhem)\n- [Maastricht](https://anyhouse.me/rent/maastricht)\n- [Eindhoven](https://anyhouse.me/rent/eindhoven)\n- [Haarlem](https://anyhouse.me/rent/haarlem)\n- [Leeuwarden](https://anyhouse.me/rent/leeuwarden)\n- [Enschede](https://anyhouse.me/rent/enschede)\n- [Egmond aan Zee](https://anyhouse.me/rent/egmond)\n- [Nijmegen](https://anyhouse.me/rent/nijmegen)\n- [Zwolle](https://anyhouse.me/rent/zwolle)\n- [Amersfoort](https://anyhouse.me/rent/amersfoort)",true,11,"rent/groningen",1785712840438,"\u003Ch3>Apartments, Rooms, Studios and Houses for Rent in Groningen\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Groningen is the big city of the far north, two hours by train from Amsterdam and largely content to run on its own terms. It has its own economy, its own culture and its own weather, and for most of the year it feels like one of the most liveable places in the country. Then late August arrives, tens of thousands of students pour off the trains at once, and the room market seizes up. In recent years the pressure has been sharp enough that the city has opened temporary shelter beds for students who arrived with nowhere to stay, which tells you how thin supply runs at the peak. That crunch is a student-calendar problem more than a year-round one, and it matters as much to a professional or a family timing a move as it does to a first-year: arrive outside the late-summer spike and the same city behaves very differently.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The engine behind all of this is scale. The University of Groningen enrols around 32,500 students, roughly a quarter of them international, and Hanze University of Applied Sciences adds close to 28,000 more across its campuses, most of them clustered on the Zernike site to the north. Drop all of that into a municipality of about 245,000 people and you get a city where students make up around a quarter of the population and the average age sits near thirty-six, which the city itself points to as the \u003Ca href=\"https://groningen.nl/internationals/about-groningen/city-and-province\">youngest in the Netherlands\u003C/a>. Four separate scrambles run at once every autumn: students after rooms, internationals after furnished studios, young professionals after apartments, and the smaller, slower market of families after actual houses.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The University of Groningen does not sugar-coat the odds either. It tells incoming students in plain language to arrange housing before they arrive and warns that the market is genuinely tight, pointing new arrivals at the screened municipal platform \u003Ca href=\"https://www.athomeingroningen.com/\">At Home in Groningen\u003C/a> rather than pretending it will sort them out. When the institution itself is managing expectations downward, take it seriously.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>This is where AnyHouse earns its place. Rather than leave you refreshing a dozen sites, it monitors more than 400 rental platforms at once, flags a matching home the moment it lists, keeps your shortlist and applications together, and can lodge applications on your behalf against the criteria you set.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Groningen rentals: the short version\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>What things cost:\u003C/strong> a room averages around €430/month, a studio around €800, and a one-bedroom apartment around €1,100. Ranges run wide, and rooms that were once among the cheapest in the country have been climbing.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Red flag one:\u003C/strong> a landlord who cannot arrange a viewing because they are abroad and wants a deposit before any contract or key handover.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Red flag two:\u003C/strong> a listing priced well below everything comparable, especially one that also appears “for sale” on Funda or asks for payment by gift card or crypto.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Do this first:\u003C/strong> students should lock the SSH Groningen registration window into their calendar as soon as their place is confirmed; professionals and families should have a full document pack and live listing alerts ready so they can respond within the hour. Whoever you are, run a private-market search alongside whatever else you do.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Before you sign:\u003C/strong> run the address through the Huurcommissie rent check to see whether the asking rent is even legal (details further down).\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003C/blockquote>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"listing-block\">\n  \u003Ch2 class=\"listing-title\">Fresh rentals in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n  \u003Cp class=\"listing-subtitle\">Listings matched to your location and budget\u003C/p>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"cards-scroll\">\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/6c5e4278-861a-4619-915a-7fa8b18bda22/0\" alt=\"Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,825\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>60 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/24b016bf-df26-4f9c-adf3-d0df9caf7425/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,995\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>103 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/a5cb295c-3f97-4803-ada0-787ac3829643/0\" alt=\"Radesingel, 9711 EJ Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Radesingel, 9711 EJ Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,995\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>103 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/951e2b68-9674-4a9b-a3d6-f06403776030/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Noord, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Noord, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€2,280\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>1 bed\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>96 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n  \u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"listing-cta\">\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more matches\u003C/a>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cp>Your next Groningen rental might appear today.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>AnyHouse helps you see it faster.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\">Get instant rental alerts in Groningen\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>Current Groningen Rental Market\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The shortage here has a number attached to it, and it is not small: on figures from the national student-housing monitor Kences, reported by the university paper \u003Ca href=\"https://ukrant.nl/magazine/twee-erbij-een-eraf-waarom-de-kamernood-in-groningen-maar-aanhoudt/\">UKrant\u003C/a>, the city is still short of roughly 1,900 student rooms even after years of building. The pinch is worst at the affordable end, where anything advertised as a room under €500 or a studio under €800 tends to be gone before the ad has finished loading. Because the two institutions keep the top of the funnel permanently full, prices have drifted upward rather than settling, and Groningen’s old reputation as the place where students could actually afford to live is now doing more work than the numbers can support.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Public rent figures rarely agree with one another, and no single source is lying to you. Each platform measures a different slice of stock: furnished mid-term lets, live private listings, rooms, studios or agency inventory. HousingAnywhere, \u003Ca href=\"https://www.pararius.com/apartments/groningen\">Pararius\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://kamernet.nl/en/for-rent/room-groningen\">Kamernet\u003C/a> can each quote a different average for the same city because they are quietly counting different homes. One Groningen wrinkle worth knowing: a room let by \u003Ca href=\"https://www.athomeingroningen.com/\">SSH Groningen\u003C/a>, the non-profit student housing provider, usually comes furnished and all-in for a fixed maximum term, which trades flexibility for the reassurance of a screened landlord and a price that does not hide surprises.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Prices move in bands, not fixed points, so judge each property type on its own market. A room in the Korrewegwijk, a furnished studio near the Grote Markt, a one-bedroom in Oosterpoort and a family house in Helpman have separate prices, separate timelines and separate levels of competition. A single blended “Groningen average” flattens all of that into a number you cannot actually use.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"blog-table-wrap\">\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Property type\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Average rent\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Typical range\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Best for\u003C/th>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/thead>\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Room\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€430/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€350-650/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Students / budget renters\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Studio\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€800/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€650-1,100/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Solo renters / internationals\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Apartment\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€1,100/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€850-1,600/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Couples / professionals\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>House\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€1,650/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>€1,350-2,500/month\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Families\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/tbody>\n\u003C/table>\u003C/div>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cp>These are market ranges gathered from public rental sources. For the most current figures, use the live AnyHouse Groningen data on this page, which reflects what is actually available today rather than a blended historical average.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/blockquote>\n\u003Cp>Groningen is still cheaper than Amsterdam or Utrecht, which is exactly why its room market never gets a quiet season. What it does not have is a wall of nearby big cities to spill demand into. The surrounding towns are small, the trains thin out quickly once you leave the city, and the next comparable rental market is a long way south. That isolation keeps competition concentrated right here, which is why commute planning, registration, contract quality and the legal rent matter as much as the headline number.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>What Makes Groningen Different: A City That Runs on Its Own Clock\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"/blog/images/41.jpg\" alt=\"groningen-2.jpg\">\n\u003Cem>Source: 20090529 Academiegebouw Groningen NL.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>A quick “Groningen is tight” line would not tell you much. The detail matters here because it explains both why it is so hard and why it might loosen. This is a city built around a four-hundred-year-old university, sitting far enough from the rest of the country that it had to become self-sufficient, and now trying to build its way out of a room shortage on land its old industries left behind. Understanding that shape is what lets you read the map instead of just refreshing it.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>The student ratio is the whole story, and September is when it all lands at once\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>When a quarter of your city is students and two large institutions run a single shared intake, the calendar does the damage. Demand does not rise gently through the year; it spikes in a single fortnight in late August and September when the University of Groningen and Hanze arrivals hit the same streets at once. This is the window when the city has, in recent years, resorted to emergency shelter beds for students who arrived with nowhere to live. The pressure eases through autumn as the crush clears, so the cruel irony is that the worst possible moment to start looking is the exact moment most newcomers first can.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Room conversion is capped by permit, and by the 15% rule\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Turning an ordinary house into rented rooms in Groningen requires a conversion permit (an \u003Ca href=\"https://gemeente.groningen.nl/omzettingsvergunning-voor-kamerverhuur-aanvragen\">omzettingsvergunning\u003C/a>, historically the onttrekkingsvergunning) whenever three or more people share it as non-independent rooms. The council will not grant one if room-rental homes already make up more than 15% of the dwellings on that street, a threshold built to protect livability. In practice the city has tightened this so far that new conversion permits are now issued only in rare exceptions, which means shared-room supply is effectively frozen and spread thinly across the city. That single policy explains most of why the room queue is what it is.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>The gas-earthquake legacy still shapes the wider province\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the province sits what was once Europe’s largest onshore gas field, and decades of extraction triggered induced earthquakes that damaged thousands of homes across the villages north and east of the city. Production was wound down and the field permanently closed in the mid-2020s, but the reinforcement and rebuilding programme rumbles on, and it quietly tightens the regional housing picture: homes under repair are homes not on the market. It rarely touches a student room in the city centre directly, but it is part of why the whole region feels short of stock.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Suikerzijde and Stadshavens: the supply is coming, just not this September\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Groningen’s answer to the shortage is ambitious. On the old sugar-factory grounds south-west of the centre, \u003Ca href=\"https://gemeente.groningen.nl/de-suikerzijde\">De Suikerzijde\u003C/a> is planned for roughly 5,500 homes, while the new Stadshavens district near the Eemskanaal targets a few thousand more, part of a wider ambition of around 20,000 new homes over the next five to ten years. For anyone renting in 2026 the honest reading is patience: this is where the market eventually breathes, but a masterplan does not hand you keys next month.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Two hours from the Randstad: the problem and the blessing\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Groningen’s distance from the western cities is its defining feature. It is a genuine drawback when you want a quick escape to Amsterdam or a job interview in Utrecht, and it means you cannot simply commute in from a cheaper big city the way renters do further south. But it is also why Groningen is a real place rather than a dormitory: it has its own hospital cluster, its own tech and energy employers, a serious music and nightlife scene, and a labour market that does not empty out on Friday afternoon. The isolation concentrates the housing pressure, but it is also what makes the city worth the fight.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>Rooms, Studios, Apartments and Houses in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Most Groningen renters land in one of four buckets: a room, a studio, an apartment or a house. The useful question is not only which you want, but which you can realistically get inside your budget and your timeline, because in this city those two rarely agree on the first attempt.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Rooms for Rent in Groningen\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Rooms are the default for students, exchange students and anyone renting on a tight budget. If you rent a room in Groningen, expect shared facilities: a kitchen, a bathroom, sometimes a living room. Demand spikes viciously around the academic intake, when the combined new arrivals of the University of Groningen and Hanze land in the same neighbourhoods in the same fortnight.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Because of the conversion-permit cap described above, room supply is limited and clustered. The traditional student pockets are the Korrewegwijk and the neighbouring Indische buurt north of the centre, the streets around Oosterpoort, and Selwerd and Paddepoel out toward the Zernike campus. A distinctly Groningen ritual sits between you and many of these rooms: the hospiteeravond, an evening where current housemates interview candidates and vote on who joins. More on that below, because it genuinely changes how you should apply. Always check whether you can register at the address. Skipping registration can snarl your BSN, bank account, work, study and municipal paperwork, and you are legally required to register a Dutch address once you are here for more than four months.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"listing-block\">\n  \u003Ch2 class=\"listing-title\">Fresh rooms in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n  \u003Cp class=\"listing-subtitle\">Rooms matched to your location and budget\u003C/p>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"cards-scroll\">\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/0c3fbeba-1ff2-4365-8536-37d292af67a0/0\" alt=\"Rembrandt van Rijnstraat, 9718 NV Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Rembrandt van Rijnstraat, 9718 NV Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€539\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>9 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/bc744187-cab7-4704-93fe-0d8f97586978/0\" alt=\"Paterswoldseweg, 9727 BR Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Paterswoldseweg, 9727 BR Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€580\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>10 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/60c6cee6-972c-4663-8507-28450b8008cf/0\" alt=\"9722 EP, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">9722 EP, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€558\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>11 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/d3fbabfb-d116-4293-9e7f-f665ca03dd3a/0\" alt=\"9726 HL, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">9726 HL, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€590\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>15 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/b2df8b44-8298-49e1-9da6-d124ffa29288/0\" alt=\"Boterdiep, 9712 LP Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Boterdiep, 9712 LP Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€632\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>15 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/e52394b8-4bc7-4b32-9b7c-2b928d9a022e/0\" alt=\"Almastraat, 9716 CM Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Almastraat, 9716 CM Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€600\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>18 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/0fece392-1a77-4a20-9da5-3e6b0a737bda/0\" alt=\"Gorechtkade, 9713 CG Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Gorechtkade, 9713 CG Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€540\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>11 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/87c14a1a-1aa4-4c2c-a2f4-b2f68f0119cb/0\" alt=\"Industriestraat, 9744 BP Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Room\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Industriestraat, 9744 BP Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€675\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>10 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n  \u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"listing-cta\">\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more matches\u003C/a>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Ch3>Studios for Rent in Groningen\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>A studio in Groningen is normally self-contained: your own living and sleeping area, bathroom and kitchen. Studios draw solo renters, internationals, PhD candidates and anyone with a bit more budget who wants their own front door rather than a shared one. The catch is that plenty of people want exactly that, so self-contained studios under €800 disappear fast, especially the furnished ones close to the centre and the Zernike side. If your plan is simply to rent a studio in Groningen and skip the shared-kitchen politics of a room, budget for competition rather than choice, particularly in the weeks around the autumn intake.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Paying extra for a furnished studio buys you out of the move-in hassle. Go unfurnished or semi-furnished and the headline rent drops, but flooring, curtains and appliances land on your tab instead. Huurtoeslag (rent benefit) may apply if the studio qualifies and you meet the income and asset tests. From 2026 the rules shifted: the hard rent ceiling was scrapped, the benefit is now calculated on rent up to about €932.93, and the qualifying age dropped to 21, so always confirm on the official \u003Ca href=\"https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/belastingdienst/individuals/benefits/moving_to_the_netherlands/i_live_in_a_rented_house/rent-and-service-costs/rent-and-service-costs\">Belastingdienst rent benefit page\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"listing-block\">\n  \u003Ch2 class=\"listing-title\">Fresh studios in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n  \u003Cp class=\"listing-subtitle\">Studios matched to your location and budget\u003C/p>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"cards-scroll\">\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/71a7b0e8-705b-4190-bacb-75f5b0a504df/0\" alt=\"Froukemaheerd, 9736 RH Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Froukemaheerd, 9736 RH Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€900\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>32 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/28a7fccb-c7e5-465f-8656-86b2f3092aca/0\" alt=\"Robijnstraat, 9743 KN Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Robijnstraat, 9743 KN Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€851\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>40 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/fd826581-4118-48ef-8e45-d12d10798613/0\" alt=\"Tweede Willemstraat, 9725 JK Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Tweede Willemstraat, 9725 JK Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€985\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>40 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/4dc397de-653c-4118-a6a1-31888ffdb03c/0\" alt=\"9712 EW, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">9712 EW, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€985\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>20 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/54079c13-628a-42df-9e58-77ddc187df98/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,055\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>41 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/e2224404-9cea-43a9-970c-cefd14f50597/0\" alt=\"9718 ED, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">9718 ED, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,058\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>25 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/e52992e8-1bbf-4271-991d-e7b924deefb9/0\" alt=\"Rivierenbuurt, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Rivierenbuurt, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€905\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>31 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/2395495b-ecb1-42fc-8e40-0cc7be9089c9/0\" alt=\"9717 NC, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Studio\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">9717 NC, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,040\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>32 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n  \u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"listing-cta\">\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more matches\u003C/a>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Ch3>Apartments and Houses for Rent in Groningen\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Groningen’s apartment segment belongs mainly to couples, professionals and small families, and the city’s non-student economy keeps that market warm year-round. A one-bedroom is already competitive; two-bedrooms draw couples, sharers and relocation clients working at the UMCG hospital, the university itself, and the city’s growing energy and digital sectors. Furnished apartments cluster in the expat-facing segment, while semi-furnished ones typically cover just the basics: flooring, curtains, a kitchen.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Always check whether an apartment’s quoted rent is bare, inclusive or exclusive before comparing it to another. Bare rent (kale huur) leaves out utilities and service costs. Rent marked inclusive typically covers only part of it. The advertised figure and the real monthly bill are rarely the same thing, and the gap can run into the hundreds.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Houses for rent are rarer than apartments and tend to sit in the outer neighbourhoods, above all Helpman and Beijum, with more scattered through the villages like Haren. They suit families, groups or long-term renters, and come with higher rent, higher utility bills and stricter income checks.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"listing-block\">\n  \u003Ch2 class=\"listing-title\">Fresh apartments & houses in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n  \u003Cp class=\"listing-subtitle\">Apartments and houses matched to your location and budget\u003C/p>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"cards-scroll\">\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/6c5e4278-861a-4619-915a-7fa8b18bda22/0\" alt=\"Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,825\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>60 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/b6e30649-45e4-4a9c-8a51-035ca5be63ef/0\" alt=\"Aweg, 9718 CS Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Aweg, 9718 CS Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,525\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>1 bed\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>57 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/336359c3-b24c-44a8-84f8-ad287631ec1e/0\" alt=\"Reitemakersrijge, 9711 HT Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Reitemakersrijge, 9711 HT Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,750\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>139 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/d9df235c-3d7e-4b50-b83d-a777ebf1430b/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,750\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>139 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/f1c322c5-4591-49a5-a9cf-de70485e4c43/0\" alt=\"Oosterhamrikkade, 9713 KC Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Oosterhamrikkade, 9713 KC Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,349\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>79 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/1650cdbc-1840-4c7e-b1d4-013cef9d542f/0\" alt=\"Het Hout 167, 9723 LC Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Het Hout 167, 9723 LC Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,650\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>3 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>128 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/8c62842c-e16f-4489-b6a2-a0c8a2da9dd7/0\" alt=\"Boumaboulevard, 9723 ZT Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Boumaboulevard, 9723 ZT Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,499\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>89 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/c8019a0d-d07e-4111-9bfd-fddca0e32d10/0\" alt=\"Haren-Centrum, Haren Gn, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Haren-Centrum, Haren Gn, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Haren Gn\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,750\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>3 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>135 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n  \u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"listing-cta\">\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more matches\u003C/a>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Ch2>Best Areas in Groningen for Renters\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"/blog/images/43.jpg\" alt=\"groningen-3.jpg\">\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Source: 20110929 Leliesingel Noorderplantsoen Groningen NL.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Groningen is compact and cycle-friendly, and almost nothing is more than fifteen minutes by bike from the centre, which flattens the usual location premium. But it is still not one market. A furnished studio by the Grote Markt, a student room in the Korrewegwijk and a family house in Helpman are three different searches with three different budgets. The neighbourhood you pick sets your rent, your commute to campus and how large a crowd you are fighting for the same key.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Binnenstad\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Best for:\u003C/strong> renters who want to live inside the action and can pay for it.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Typical rentals:\u003C/strong> canal-side apartments, studios and furnished units above shops around the Grote Markt and the old centre.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Watch out for:\u003C/strong> premium prices, small footprints, and cheerful late-night noise around the bar streets.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>This is the historic heart, with the Martinitoren, the markets and the terraces on your doorstep and the entire city walkable. Ideal if you want to step out of your door into Groningen at full volume and can absorb the centre-city premium for the privilege.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Oosterpoort\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Best for:\u003C/strong> students and young professionals who want character a short walk south of the centre.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Typical rentals:\u003C/strong> older terraced homes, rooms and apartments on narrow streets near the station.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Watch out for:\u003C/strong> strong competition and small, older units that go quickly.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Just south-east of the centre and beside the main station, Oosterpoort mixes students, creatives and settled residents around De Oosterpoort, the 1,200-seat concert hall that hands the whole neighbourhood over to Eurosonic Noorderslag each January, when well over two hundred acts play upward of thirty venues across the city centre in a single long weekend. Central without the full Binnenstad price, which is exactly why the good listings do not linger.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Korrewegwijk and the Indische buurt\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Best for:\u003C/strong> students and budget renters after the classic shared-house experience.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Typical rentals:\u003C/strong> rooms and shared houses in older terraces north of the Noorderplantsoen.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Watch out for:\u003C/strong> the most contested room market in the city, and rooms that often come with a hospiteeravond.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>North of the centre across the canal, this is student heartland, lively and lived-in, with the Noorderplantsoen park as its green lung, and for eleven days every late August that quiet green lung turns into Noorderzon, a performing-arts festival that draws well over 100,000 visitors and fills the park with tents, terraces and late-night crowds. Great value and great atmosphere, but the room turnover here is brutal around intake, so preparation beats luck.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Selwerd and Paddepoel\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Best for:\u003C/strong> students who want to live close to Zernike campus and the science buildings.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Typical rentals:\u003C/strong> post-war apartment blocks, student complexes and larger new-build studios.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Watch out for:\u003C/strong> less charm than the old centre, and a reliance on the bike or bus into town.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>North-west of the centre on the way to Zernike, these districts are where a lot of purpose-built and complex-style student housing sits, including Proxima, SSH’s newest block, built right on Zernike Campus itself. It \u003Ca href=\"https://northerntimes.nl/new-student-complex-opens-on-zernike-campus-with-401-rooms/\">opened in 2024 with 401 rooms\u003C/a>, and at the height of the autumn crunch it temporarily doubles up its two-bed rooms to house as many as 802 students while they keep hunting for something more permanent, which tells you plenty about how tight the queue still is even after new supply lands. Not postcard-pretty, but hard to beat if your days are spent on campus and you would rather cycle ten minutes than pay centre-city rent.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Helpman\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Best for:\u003C/strong> couples, families and professionals who want space and quiet without leaving the city.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Typical rentals:\u003C/strong> family houses with gardens, larger apartments and settled residential streets.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Watch out for:\u003C/strong> thin free-sector stock that changes hands quietly and rarely stays listed long.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>South of the centre with a leafy, grown-up feel and good schools nearby, Helpman is the sensible choice for renters who have aged out of the shared house. It is one of the more desirable family areas in the city, so plan to move fast when something appears.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Beijum\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Best for:\u003C/strong> families and longer-term renters who want a house and a garden at a gentler price than Helpman.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Typical rentals:\u003C/strong> 1970s and 80s terraced family houses with gardens, plus low-rise apartments, arranged around green courtyards.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Watch out for:\u003C/strong> it sits on the north-eastern edge, so you lean on the bus or the bike into town, and upkeep varies street by street.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Beijum is the second of the two areas this guide keeps steering families toward, a planned green suburb wrapped around the Beijumerbos woodland and next to the Kardinge sport and recreation area, with its own schools and shops rather than a nightly reason to head into the centre. The city’s own neighbourhood-liveability data (\u003Ca href=\"https://publicaties.oisgroningen.nl/2023/leefbaarheid-in-de-groningse-wijken-en-dorpen/23-beijum\">OIS Groningen\u003C/a>) reads it as a broadly calm, family-oriented district where residents rate the greenery highly, while noting genuine if localised concerns about upkeep of public space and pockets of socioeconomic strain, so it is worth walking a specific street rather than judging the whole area from a single listing. On space for the money, family houses across Groningen work out at roughly €14 per square metre, so a home near the €1,650 house average lands around 110 to 120 square metres: three bedrooms and a real garden rather than a compromise, which is why families accept the longer ride in.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>Nearby Alternatives: Haren, Assen and the Village Line\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>If Groningen’s prices or availability refuse to cooperate, the honest news is that your fallback options are thinner here than in the Randstad. Groningen does not sit on a corridor of big cities; it sits at the end of the line, surrounded by small towns. Commuting in is doable, but it usually means a village or a smaller town rather than a second city with its own deep rental market.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Haren\u003C/strong> - roughly 10 minutes by train just south of the city, greener and calmer, popular with families and often quieter stock.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Assen\u003C/strong> - about 18 minutes by train with services every 20 minutes, a proper town with more houses and a lower price level than the city.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Zuidhorn\u003C/strong> - around 15 minutes by train to the west, a small commuter town on the line toward Leeuwarden.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Winsum\u003C/strong> - roughly 15 minutes by train to the north, a village stop for renters who genuinely prefer the quiet.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Leek and Roden\u003C/strong> - just outside the city by bus or car, sometimes cheaper for houses and family space.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>Use \u003Ca href=\"https://www.ns.nl/en\">NS\u003C/a> and regional operator Arriva for trains and buses, and \u003Ca href=\"https://9292.nl/en\">9292\u003C/a> to check any door-to-door journey before you commit. Frequencies drop sharply outside peak hours on the smaller lines, so a commute that looks fine at 8am can look very different at 11pm. A listing photo is easy to fall for. Standing on a dark platform in January rain is a much harder sell than the photo was.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>What You Need to Rent in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Build your rental profile before you apply, not after. The best rooms go to whoever shows up complete: payslips, guarantor, enrolment letter, all in one message.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Documents Landlords Usually Ask For\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Valid ID or passport\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Proof of income\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Employment contract or recent payslips\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Bank statements, sometimes\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Proof of enrollment, for students\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Guarantor details, if your income is low or foreign\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>BSN, if already available\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Short personal introduction\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Preferred move-in date and household details\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Pet information, if relevant\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Ch3>Income, Deposit and Contract Basics\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Many landlords want gross income around 3 to 4 times the monthly rent, though this shifts by agency and property. A €1,100 apartment can therefore call for roughly €3,300 to €4,400 gross monthly household income. Student and shared rentals will often take a guarantor instead. Deposits are usually one to two months’ rent.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>One factor worth flagging for anyone relocating here to work is the Dutch expat tax break, still widely called the 30% ruling. A recognised employer can pay an eligible skilled migrant part of their salary free of tax: that untaxed portion is 30 percent through 2026 and drops to a flat 27 percent from 1 January 2027, and the scheme only applies above a taxable-salary floor of €48,013 (or €36,497 if you are under 30 and hold a qualifying master’s). It reaches a minority of Groningen renters, but a fair share of the UMCG clinicians, university researchers and energy or digital hires the city draws from abroad will qualify. The wrinkle for a rental application is that a landlord measures your gross income, whereas the ruling works on take-home pay, so it will not lift you over a gross-income threshold; it simply frees up more of your monthly take-home, which means a rent that looks stretched on the gross multiple can sit more comfortably than it first appears. Confirm your own position with a tax adviser or the official guidance rather than assuming it applies.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The \u003Ca href=\"https://www.government.nl/topics/housing/rented-housing\">Government.nl rented housing pages\u003C/a> cover the basics of Dutch rental rules, including rent, tenancy agreements, maintenance and service charges. For disputes, the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.huurcommissie.nl/\">Huurcommissie\u003C/a> is the official Dutch rent tribunal. Before signing, check:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Is the contract written?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Is the rent bare, inclusive or exclusive?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Are service costs clear?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Can you register at the address?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Is the deposit reasonable?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Who is responsible for utilities?\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Are there agency or administration fees?\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Ch3>Registration in Groningen\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Move to Groningen from abroad for more than four months and you must register with the municipality, as soon as you reasonably can after arrival. Gemeente Groningen’s \u003Ca href=\"https://gemeente.groningen.nl/en/housing-foreign-students\">information for internationals\u003C/a> explains that you book an appointment at the city office and bring a valid travel document and, where relevant, documents for partners and children registering with you. Registration is what unlocks your BSN, so treat it as a priority in your first weeks, not an afterthought.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Any listing advertising no registration should raise your guard straight away. Stack that alongside pressure tactics, a fuzzy landlord identity, unusual payment methods or no viewing, and the pattern is unmistakable.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Rental Scams: Newcomers Are the Target\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Groningen’s student market, like every Dutch student city, draws rental fraud, and the university and the municipality warn incoming students about it in plain terms. The script barely changes: a listing that is too good, a landlord who cannot show you around because they are conveniently overseas, a request for money before any contract or key exchange, then silence. Never pay by gift card or crypto, only transfer to a Dutch bank account belonging to the actual owner or organisation, and if a “for rent” property also shows up “for sale” on Funda, walk away.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>New to the Netherlands? Start Here (Students & Internationals)\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Groningen is one of the most international student cities in the country, so a large share of its renters land here with no Dutch paperwork at all. If this is you, the thing to grasp early is the circular trap that catches nearly every arriving student.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>The chicken-and-egg problem\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>To register with the municipality and get a BSN (your citizen service number), you usually need a registered address. To open a full Dutch bank account, life is easier with a BSN. And many landlords want to see a Dutch income, a Dutch guarantor or both before handing over a contract. Every requirement leans on one of the others. It is a genuine loop, and the only way to break it is doing part of it out of sequence.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>What you can do from abroad right now:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Line up your documents in English or Dutch: passport, proof of enrolment or your employment contract, and recent proof of income or funds.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Ask specifically about registration. Only take a room where you can register at the address, because registration unlocks the BSN, and you are legally required to register once you are here for more than four months.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Have a guarantor plan, and be honest about what it costs. Paying a specialist guarantor service or fronting several months’ rent are both real options, but each needs cash a genuinely broke student often does not have. The zero-cost alternative is a parent or relative overseas backing you, and it hinges on presentation: give the landlord their income and bank documents already translated into Dutch or English and laid out cleanly, since a landlord staring at paperwork they cannot read, or weighing a cross-border debt they would rather not chase, tends to reach for the next name on the list. Confirm which of these a given landlord will take before you commit.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Register with SSH Groningen and At Home in Groningen. SSH offers furnished rooms on fixed-term student contracts and opens registration on fixed dates each spring; those dates shift from year to year but typically fall in April, with room booking following in May, so check the current ones on the SSH site and put them in your calendar the moment you are admitted. At Home in Groningen, the screened municipal platform, runs as a rolling listings site rather than a single opening day, so join it and start watching as early as you can.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Check the community channels. ESN Groningen, the university and Hanze housing pages, and the student Facebook and WhatsApp groups regularly carry rooms, sublets and hospiteeravond invitations. These are legitimate paths that work, not a sign of defeat.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Ch3>The hospiteeravond, and why it changes your approach\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>A large slice of Groningen’s shared-house rooms are not simply let to the first qualified applicant. Instead the current housemates hold a hospiteeravond, an evening where shortlisted candidates come round, are asked about their studies, habits and hobbies, and are then voted on once everyone has left. It is closer to a flat interview than a viewing, and it means the “application” is partly social: they are choosing a housemate, not a tenant. Reply to the advert with a warm, specific introduction, show up on time, be genuinely interested in the people rather than just the room, and treat it as the two-way audition it is. For internationals it can feel odd, but it is a real and long-standing local custom, not a hoop invented to exclude you.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Paying a deposit safely, and getting it back\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Pay a deposit only once you have a written contract, and only to the verified bank account of the actual owner or a recognised organisation. Never send a deposit by gift card, crypto or to a private account for a home you have not seen. A deposit is normally one to two months’ rent, it should be written into the contract, and it must be returned after you leave once any genuine damage is settled. If a landlord refuses to return a reasonable deposit, the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.huurcommissie.nl/\">Huurcommissie\u003C/a> can rule on deposit and rent disputes.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Arriving without housing\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>It happens, and in Groningen it is genuinely risky, because the September crush is the one moment the city has actually run out of beds and opened emergency shelters for students. If you cannot secure a permanent room before you arrive, book a short-stay apartment, a student hotel or a hostel so you have somewhere to sleep while you view places in person, which is far safer than committing to a room sight unseen from another country. Treat it as a deliberate landing pad, not a defeat, and keep your saved searches and alerts running the entire time.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>A simple timeline\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Now:\u003C/strong> gather documents, arrange a guarantor or upfront-payment plan, start saved searches and alerts, note the SSH Groningen spring registration dates and join the rolling At Home in Groningen platform.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Before you fly:\u003C/strong> book a short-stay landing pad if you have not secured a room, and shortlist viewings and hospiteeravonden you can attend in your first week.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>First 5 days:\u003C/strong> view in person, sign only a written contract, and pay the deposit only to a verified account.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>First month:\u003C/strong> register with Gemeente Groningen, collect your BSN, open a Dutch bank account, and run the Huurcommissie rent check on your new address.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003C/blockquote>\n\u003Cp>Budget for the upfront hit, and keep it firmly separate in your head from the monthly rent, because they are two different numbers that catch people out. The €430 room in the headline is what you pay each month once you are in; the sum you actually need saved to get through the door is larger. Take a room first: roughly €430 for the first month plus a deposit of one to two months (€430 to €860) comes to somewhere around €860 to €1,290, before furniture. Trade up to an €800 studio and the same maths runs to roughly €1,600 to €2,400, and more again if a landlord asks for several months upfront in place of a guarantor.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>Renting as a Family / Relocating with Kids\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Groningen works well for families who want space and calm at a price the Randstad cannot match, but the family rental market is smaller and slower than the student one, so early planning pays off.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Schools: register early, expect waiting lists\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>For international primary education inside the city, the \u003Cstrong>Groningse Schoolvereniging (GSV)\u003C/strong>, a parent association founded in 1910 and now the oldest provider of international primary education in the north of the Netherlands, runs the \u003Cstrong>International Primary School Groningen (IPSG)\u003C/strong>, a publicly funded English-language international department for children roughly aged 4 to 11 on a green city campus. For secondary education there is the \u003Cstrong>International School Groningen (ISG)\u003C/strong>, which teaches an international programme through to the diploma years and caps each Middle Years class at 22 students, so an early application buys you a place a late one simply cannot. Between them the city covers international schooling from primary through secondary without a long commute, which is not something every Dutch city outside the Randstad can say. Places are limited, so register as early as you can and expect a waiting list rather than a same-term start.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Childcare and BSO\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>For younger children, daycare (kinderopvang) and after-school care (buitenschoolse opvang, or BSO) are widely used but heavily subscribed. Register well ahead of your move, because popular locations fill months in advance, and check whether you qualify for the national childcare allowance (kinderopvangtoeslag), which reimburses a large share of the cost for working parents.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>What a family home actually costs per month\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>The quoted rent covers only part of the bill. For a €1,650 family house, gas, electricity and water typically run €250 to €350 a month, with the energy label doing most of the work in deciding which end you land on. Add municipal and water-board taxes (a few hundred euros a year) and internet and service costs, and a €1,650 house realistically costs €1,950 to €2,100 a month before childcare or schooling enters the picture.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Contracts: indefinite is now the default\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Good news for families who want to put down roots. Since 1 July 2024, under the Fixed-Term Tenancy Act (Wet vaste huurcontracten), an indefinite contract (onbepaalde tijd) is again the default for most new self-contained tenancies, and temporary contracts are only allowed in a limited set of cases such as student housing, a landlord’s temporary absence or job-tied housing. An indefinite contract gives strong, lasting security: the landlord can only end it on specific legal grounds. If you are offered a temporary self-contained contract, ask why, because in most situations it should be indefinite.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Where the family stock is, and bridging the gap\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Three-bedroom-plus houses with gardens are concentrated in Helpman to the south and Beijum to the north-east, with more scattered through the village of Haren and the newer Meerstad development east of the city. Free-sector family houses are rare and go quickly, so if your move-in date is fixed, bridging with a furnished short-stay or temporary apartment is often the sensible route: it buys time to view properly and sign the right lease, not just the first one available.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>How to Find Rentals in Groningen Faster\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>A manual search in Groningen sprawls almost immediately. You are watching Pararius, Kamernet and HousingAnywhere by hand, keeping half an eye on SSH Groningen, At Home in Groningen and the ESN Groningen channels, and dropping into the city and student Facebook groups where landlords and outgoing tenants really do post rooms and sublets. These channels are real and worth checking. The trouble is not any one of them on its own. No one can manually refresh every platform fast enough, at precisely the right minute, to beat the rest of the pool running the same search.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Why Manual Search Breaks Down\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>You check too many platforms by hand\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>You see listings too late\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>You rewrite the same message over and over\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>You miss listings while working, studying or sleeping\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>You lose track of where you applied\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Every intake, tens of thousands of new students join the same hunt\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>You waste time on listings outside your budget\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>Groningen rewards speed and preparation, because a quarter of the city is students and two institutions push the renter-to-room ratio hard every intake. When a good room appears, replies land within the hour, and a hospiteeravond can be filled before you have even seen the advert. In this market the queue forms within minutes, not days, and there is no second window for latecomers.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Faster Search with AnyHouse\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>AnyHouse folds that scattered hunt into a single workflow, adding the reach, alerts and application tracking you cannot keep up with by hand. With AnyHouse you can:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Scan 400+ rental platforms\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Set your Groningen preferences once\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Get fast alerts when matching homes appear\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Track listings and applications\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Use AI-assisted applications\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Auto-apply to suitable homes based on your criteria\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Search rooms, studios, apartments and houses from one flow\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>No tool can guarantee housing, and be sceptical of anything that says it can. What AnyHouse actually gives you is speed, wider coverage and a single place to stay organised, so you see the right listing in its first minutes, when applying still means something.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"listing-block\">\n  \u003Ch2 class=\"listing-title\">Fresh rentals in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n  \u003Cp class=\"listing-subtitle\">Listings matched to your location and budget\u003C/p>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"cards-scroll\">\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/6c5e4278-861a-4619-915a-7fa8b18bda22/0\" alt=\"Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,825\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>60 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/24b016bf-df26-4f9c-adf3-d0df9caf7425/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,995\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>103 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/a5cb295c-3f97-4803-ada0-787ac3829643/0\" alt=\"Radesingel, 9711 EJ Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Radesingel, 9711 EJ Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,995\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>103 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/951e2b68-9674-4a9b-a3d6-f06403776030/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Noord, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Noord, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€2,280\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>1 bed\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>96 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n  \u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"listing-cta\">\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more matches\u003C/a>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cp>Your next Groningen rental might appear today.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>AnyHouse helps you see it faster.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\">Get instant rental alerts in Groningen\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Cp>Groningen’s reputation for cheap rooms cuts both ways: renters assume any rent here must be fair, and some landlords quietly bank on that. A student city with constant tenant turnover is precisely where overcharging thrives, because each September brings a fresh wave of newcomers who do not yet know their rights and are grateful just to have a roof. Regardless of what a listing asks for, Dutch law puts a legal cap on the rent for a large share of homes, and on shared, non-self-contained rooms almost without exception.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The cap is computed via the \u003Cstrong>woningwaarderingsstelsel (WWS)\u003C/strong>, a points tally of floor area, facilities, energy label and more. The Affordable Rent Act (Wet betaalbare huur), in force since July 2024, widened the regulated band, so plenty of ordinary Groningen apartments now sit under a legal maximum alongside the rooms that always did.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Before you sign, feed the address into the official \u003Ca href=\"https://www.huurcommissie.nl/support/huurprijscheck\">Huurcommissie Huurprijscheck\u003C/a> to learn the maximum lawful rent. If you are asked for more, you can still take the home and then ask the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.huurcommissie.nl/\">Huurcommissie\u003C/a>, the rent tribunal, to cut the rent, usually within the first months of the contract. Groningen also has an unusually strong local backstop: the municipal \u003Ca href=\"https://gemeente.groningen.nl/en/rent-support-center-groningen\">Steunpunt Huren\u003C/a> and the Groninger Studentenbond huurteam give free rent checks and advice, and have run active rent-reduction campaigns aimed squarely at overcharged students. Use them; that is what they are for.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>Groningen Rental FAQ\u003C/h2>\n\u003Ch3>How much does it cost to rent in Groningen?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Rent depends on property type, area, furnishing and contract style. As a guide: rooms average around €430, studios around €800 and apartments around €1,100 per month, with wide ranges either side, and room prices have been rising. Use live AnyHouse data for the most current market prices, since public sources track different rental stock and show different averages.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Is it hard to find housing in Groningen?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Yes. Groningen is a two-institution student city still short of close to two thousand student rooms, and in recent years the crunch has been sharp enough to open temporary shelter beds for students who arrived with nowhere to sleep. Anything affordable lets almost instantly. Speed and preparation are everything, especially around the late-August and September intake.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>What is a hospiteeravond?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>It is a Groningen and wider Dutch custom where the current housemates of a shared house invite shortlisted candidates round for an evening, ask about your studies, habits and interests, and then vote on who joins. Treat it like a two-way flat interview: be warm, be on time, and show real interest in the people, because they are choosing a housemate, not just a tenant.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>What income do I need to rent in Groningen?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Many landlords expect gross income around 3 to 4 times the monthly rent, although requirements vary. A €1,100 rental may require roughly €3,300 to €4,400 gross monthly household income. Student and shared rentals may accept a guarantor.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>What documents do I need to rent in Groningen?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Usually ID, proof of income, an employment contract or payslips, and sometimes bank statements. Students may need proof of enrollment. Internationals may need residence documentation, employer details and confirmation that registration at the address is possible.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>What are the best areas for students in Groningen?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>The Korrewegwijk and Indische buurt north of the centre and the streets around Oosterpoort are the classic choices, with Selwerd and Paddepoel handy for the Zernike campus and the Binnenstad for those with a bigger budget. Pick based on which side of the city you want, your budget, and whether a room, studio or shared house works for you.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Where do professionals and families find the best fit?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Professionals and couples often look at the Binnenstad and Oosterpoort for character close to the centre. Families lean toward Helpman for space and schools, Beijum for larger homes and gardens, or the village feel of Haren just south of the city.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Is there a tax break for professionals moving to Groningen?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>There can be. Recruited from abroad into a skilled role, you may fall under the Dutch expat scheme, still universally called the 30% ruling: an approved employer hands you a slice of your pay with no tax on it. That slice is 30 percent for 2026, then a flat 27 percent from 1 January 2027, and it only starts above a taxable-salary floor of €48,013, or €36,497 if you are under 30 with a qualifying master’s. Because it lifts take-home pay rather than gross, it will not help you clear the gross-income bar a landlord applies, but it quietly widens what you can afford month to month. A good number of the city’s UMCG, university and energy or digital hires qualify; check your own position with a tax adviser or the official guidance before banking on it.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Should I wait for SSH or search privately?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Do both. Register with SSH Groningen and At Home in Groningen the moment your study place is confirmed, since SSH opens on fixed spring dates and At Home in Groningen lists screened rooms on a rolling basis, but do not rely on them alone given how tight supply is. Run a private-market hunt alongside them, with short-stay housing as your fallback if the September crush catches you out.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>Can I live outside Groningen and commute?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>You can, but the options are thinner than further south. Haren is about 10 minutes by train, Assen around 18, and Zuidhorn and Winsum roughly 15, though frequencies drop outside peak hours. There is no nearby second city to spill into, so widening your search usually means a smaller town rather than another big rental market.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>What is the fastest way to find rentals in Groningen?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Prepare your documents, set alerts, reply within minutes and keep track of every application. AnyHouse watches 400+ platforms for you and flags matches the instant they post, so a room does not slip past while you are in a lecture or asleep.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>Start Your Groningen Rental Search\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Now you have the real map: Groningen is a student-driven city at the end of the line, cheaper than the Randstad but supply-tight, with a room market frozen by a conversion-permit cap, a hospiteeravond culture that turns applications into interviews, big Suikerzijde and Stadshavens builds that will help later rather than now, scams that target newcomers, and speed as a genuine advantage.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Understanding the market will not get you a room; being fast enough to catch a listing in its opening hour will. In Groningen that hour is short, and in September it can be minutes. AnyHouse helps you stop refreshing rental websites by hand: set your preferences, get alerts, track applications and search across rooms, studios, apartments and houses from one place.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"listing-block\">\n  \u003Ch2 class=\"listing-title\">Fresh rentals in Groningen\u003C/h2>\n  \u003Cp class=\"listing-subtitle\">Listings matched to your location and budget\u003C/p>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"cards-scroll\">\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/6c5e4278-861a-4619-915a-7fa8b18bda22/0\" alt=\"Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Damsterdiep, 9713 EJ Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,825\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>60 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/24b016bf-df26-4f9c-adf3-d0df9caf7425/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Zuid, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,995\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>103 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/a5cb295c-3f97-4803-ada0-787ac3829643/0\" alt=\"Radesingel, 9711 EJ Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Radesingel, 9711 EJ Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€1,995\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>2 beds\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>103 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n\u003Ca class=\"listing-card\" href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-img-wrap\">\u003Cimg src=\"/api/listings/img/951e2b68-9674-4a9b-a3d6-f06403776030/0\" alt=\"Binnenstad-Noord, Groningen, Groningen\" loading=\"lazy\" />\u003Cspan class=\"card-badge\">Apartment\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"card-body\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-title\">Binnenstad-Noord, Groningen, Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-city\">Groningen\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price\">€2,280\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-price-label\">per month\u003C/div>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"card-details\">\u003Cspan>1 bed\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"card-details-dot\">\u003C/span>\u003Cspan>96 m²\u003C/span>\u003C/div>\n  \u003C/div>\n\u003C/a>\n  \u003C/div>\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"listing-cta\">\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more matches\u003C/a>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cp>Your next Groningen rental might appear today.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>AnyHouse helps you see it faster.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/\">Get instant rental alerts in Groningen\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Free to install · iOS & Android · 400+ platforms · Fast alerts · AI-powered applications\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>Rental Guides for Other Dutch Cities\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>House-hunting beyond Groningen? AnyHouse has in-depth rental guides for cities across the Netherlands:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/amsterdam\">Amsterdam\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/rotterdam\">Rotterdam\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/den-haag\">The Hague\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/utrecht\">Utrecht\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/delft\">Delft\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/leiden\">Leiden\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/almere\">Almere\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/breda\">Breda\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/tilburg\">Tilburg\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://anyhouse.me/rent/den-bosch\">Den Bosch\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca 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