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If you’re keen to scratch that itch of moving abroad for a while but don’t want to stray too far afield, resettling in Europe is a brilliant option. However, rental prices in the continent’s cities are hugely varied, and a fair few places have seen rents rise quite significantly in 2024.
To shed some light on where it’s the most expensive to live, HousingAnywhere produces a quarterly report which ranks 28 European cities on their rent prices, based on analysis of tens of thousands of apartment listings, and also divulges any changes in price compared to the year before.
The company has just published its findings for the last three months of 2024, and it was Amsterdam which topped the list as the priciest city. Renting in the Dutch capital will set you back an average of €2,164 per month, and while that does sound steep, it actually has decreased by 1.6 percent compared to the same period in 2023.
In fact, the Netherlands dominates the ranking, with The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht all claiming a place in the top 10, and all costing an average of at least €1,798 per month.
What might come as more of a surprise is the second-place entry – Rome. Renting here costs around €2,000 per month, according to HousingAnywhere, but that’s pretty much the same rate as the previous year.
The biggest rise? That was in Stuttgart, where rent prices increased by an eye-wateringly steep 26 percent to €1,890 – the fifth most expensive city overall.
Noticed some glaring omissions of notoriously spenny cities from this list? Us too. There’s no London, no Copenhagen, no Oslo, and no Dublin, simply because those cities aren’t factored into the report – definitely something to bear in mind!
These are the most expensive European cities to rent, according to the study
- Amsterdam
- Rome
- The Hague
- Rotterdam
- Stuttgart
- Paris
- Milan
- Utrecht
- Munich and Florence
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