Renting in Innsbruck
Innsbruck is the most expensive rental market in Austria, and it is tight: there is little room between the Nordkette and the Patscherkofel, around 30,000 students look for a place every semester, and the differences are not between districts but between two streets. We show what that means for each flat.
See all rental flats →
These rental flats are currently listed in Innsbruck.
No Innsbruck rental flat currently passes our quality check. The stock grows with every provider that joins.
The difference is not the number of listings, but what stands next to each one. In Innsbruck the key question is not what the building looks like, but where it stands: in the shadow of the mountain or in the sun.
On 21 December the sun in Innsbruck reaches 19 degrees at midday. The mountain ridges to the south rise 10 to 19 degrees above the city. Anyone living at Sieglanger barely sees the winter sun, anyone in Hötting sees it all day. That is what we calculate, instead of calling it "south facing".
Open the sun check →Innsbruck is an official agglomeration, so the environmental noise map covers the whole city area. In the valley the Inn valley motorway, the Brenner axis and the western railway run within a few kilometres of each other, and the difference between two streets is bigger than between two districts.
Open the noise map →The Inn valley traps heat between two mountain ranges, and the city keeps no official climate map. We calculate heat load from the official sealing level and state the source next to every figure.
Open the heat map →Innsbruck is the most expensive housing market in Austria, ahead of Vienna and Salzburg. What that means per district, and how far existing rents and new lettings differ, is on our price page.
See prices →For rental flats Austria applies the first-instructing-party principle: whoever hires the agent pays the agent. If you are asked for commission as a tenant although the landlord hired the agent, that is usually not lawful.
Fixed-term contracts under the full scope of the Tenancy Act run for at least three years and carry a 25 percent discount on the permitted base rent. After one year you can give notice yourself, subject to the notice period.
Listings usually quote the gross rent including running costs and VAT, but sometimes only the base rent. Only comparing the same figure across several flats tells you which one is expensive.
Three gross monthly rents is the usual deposit, interest-bearing and refundable at the end. Key money is only lawful for items actually taken over or for investments of real value, never for the contract itself.
Because supply cannot grow. The city sits in a valley bounded by mountains on both sides, and the land for new construction is essentially allocated. Add around 30,000 students, strong inward migration and a tourism region all around. The result is the highest price level in Austria, ahead of Vienna and Salzburg.
The slopes to the north (Hötting, Hungerburg, Arzl) face south and get sun even in winter. The valley floor and the locations at the foot of the southern mountains lie in shadow for hours in winter, because the midday sun only reaches 19 degrees while the southern ridge rises 10 to 19 degrees. That difference outweighs any balcony orientation.
The market is tightest in September and February. Our search treats travel time to the university at Innrain as its own anchor: instead of straight-line distance we show how long it really takes by bus, tram or bike. For rooms and halls of residence we are not the right place, for a flat of your own we are.
The asking rents here are gross rents, so service charges are included. Heating and electricity are not, and in the Inn valley they run higher in winter than in the lowlands: cold air collects on the valley floor.
The Tyrolean spatial planning act regulates USE as a second home, not the form of ownership. Anyone renting a flat as their primary residence and registering there is not affected. Anyone planning to use it only occasionally should clarify before signing whether the flat is zoned as a second home at all.
Set your priorities once and the search orders by them: a short trip to the university, a quiet location, winter sun, budget. No account, no cost.