Renting in Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is Austria’s sixth largest city, and it has something no other city we cover has: a lake inside the city area and a ridge to the south that decides how much winter sun an address gets. We show what that means for every address.
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These rental flats are currently listed in Klagenfurt.
No Klagenfurt rental flat currently passes our quality check. The stock grows with every provider who joins.
The difference is not the number of listings, but what sits next to each one. These four questions are never answered honestly in a property description, because the landlord writes it.
On 21 December the sun above Klagenfurt reaches 19.9 degrees at midday. Seen from Viktring, the Sattnitz ridge to the south rises to 23.3 degrees. That means the winter sun sits behind the ridge there at noon, while two kilometres further north the sun is out all day. That is what we calculate, instead of calling it "south facing".
Open the sun check →Lake Wörthersee reaches into the city area, and no other city we cover has water of this size on its doorstep. What it means for a single address comes down to a few hundred metres. The atlas shows it per district and municipality.
Open the atlas →Klagenfurt has 105,734 inhabitants and is therefore above the EU threshold of 100,000, yet it is still not a designated agglomeration. Only the main transport routes are mapped: the loudest are the A2 motorway near St. Peter and the southern ring road, both above 75 dB. But of 6,561 inhabited locations only one in nine carries a zone at all. We state next to every address whether a measured value exists, rather than passing silence off as quiet.
Open the noise map →Building land in Klagenfurt is the cheapest of our seven markets, the flats are not. What that means for buying versus building, and why the state capital ranks only third in Carinthia, is on the price page. All figures from the purchase contracts recorded by Statistics Austria.
See the prices →Carinthia pays housing benefit under the K-WBHG, with an income scale and a flat-size rule. We rebuilt the calculation so you know where you stand before the viewing.
Calculate housing benefit →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.
There is no official rent series per Klagenfurt district, and we do not publish an estimated figure. What is documented are purchase prices: for owner-occupied flats between 59 and 81 m², Statistik Austria reports around 2,200 euros per square metre for buildings up to 1990 and around 3,300 euros from 1991 onwards, based on contracts from 2021 to 2025.
Usually not. Since 1 July 2023 the first-instructing-party principle applies to rental flats: whoever instructs the agent pays them, and that is almost always the landlord.
The province of Carinthia pays housing benefit under the Carinthian Housing Benefit Act, with an income scale, a flat-size rule and a maximum amount. We rebuilt the calculation on a page of its own.
That cannot be answered for the whole city, and we say so. The official environmental noise map only covers the main transport routes here, because Klagenfurt is not an agglomeration under the directive. Where a measured value exists we show it, and where none exists we say so, rather than passing silence off as quiet.
The lake is Klagenfurt’s biggest locational advantage and its strongest price driver. A few hundred metres make the difference, and closeness to the shore is worth something different in summer than in November. The atlas states per district how close the water really is.
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