Find a place to rent in a city where that is hard

The real picture, city by city: how hard and how expensive it is right now, where people actually search, the local tricks, the scams to expect and where to get help. Every figure dated and sourced.

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Ranking · October 2026Hardest cities to rent in

97 cities, rated the same way

A typical one-bed rent (with a rounded euro value where it is in another currency) and two of the four meters on every card; all four, with the inputs behind them, on the city page. How we rate.

All 97 cities

What a city page gives you

The situation right now: supply, demand, what changed this year, and what is realistic on a normal budget.
What it costs: typical asking rents for a room, a studio or one-bed and a two-bed, with the source and month.
Where to search: official queues and registers, the portals, agencies and the groups where the informal market lives.
Local tips: what people who have done it say helped, rewritten from forums and city subreddits.
Neighbourhoods, documents, timeline: where to look, what landlords ask for, and how long it takes.
Scams typical of that city and where to get help when something goes wrong.

We can never guarantee that an agency, listing or landlord is legitimate. The channels on each city page are where people actually look, not a list of safe places. Never pay a deposit, a fee or a "reservation" before you have seen the flat and met the person with the keys, and read our guide to avoiding rental scams first.

What applies everywhere

The city pages hold what is local. The guides hold the rest: how rental scams work, how to rent from abroad, what never to pay before a viewing, and how to let a place safely.

All guides

The rules, country by country

Contracts, deposits, rent increases, notice periods, registration and what landlords must do: one page per country, sourced to the law and dated.

All 40 countries

Questions people ask

What is Rentlet?

Rentlet is a guide to renting and letting in 97 of the world’s hardest rental markets, in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Each city page gives the picture right now: how hard and how expensive it is, where people actually search, local tips from forums and locals, the scams typical of that city and where tenants get help. Country pages hold the law, and guides hold what applies everywhere.

Where do the numbers come from?

Every rent range, score and rule on the site has a source and a date next to it. Rents come from the portals’ own market reports and statistics offices; scores follow the method on our How we rate page, with the inputs shown on each city page. Pages are checked oldest-first and the check date is shown.

Can Rentlet help me find a flat or check a landlord?

No. We list where people search and what to watch for, but we can never guarantee that an agency, listing or landlord is legitimate, and we don’t mediate or give legal advice. The city and country pages list the tenant unions and public services that can help.

Is Rentlet for landlords too?

Yes. The country pages cover what a landlord must do to let legally and how rental income is taxed, and the landlord guides cover letting safely, screening tenants and contracts.