Flats to rent in Lower Austria
Renting in Lower Austria usually means renting along a railway to Vienna or in one of the district towns. The reference rent only applies to pre-war buildings here, new builds and cooperatives work differently, and the walk to the suburban railway shapes daily life more than the place name. Here are the flats to rent by district and the travel time you buy with them.
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3430 NeuaigenModern. Spacious. High quality. – New build apartment with large terrace!€ 1.250/month91 m²3 rooms
3264 ReinsbergFirst occupancy - 4-room apartment in Reinsberg, balcony & loggia, subsidized, rental with purchase option€ 877/month82 m²4 rooms
3264 ReinsbergLiving in the countryside - subsidized, first occupancy/rent with purchase option€ 740/month71 m²3 rooms
3264 ReinsbergFirst occupancy in 3264 Reinsberg: Living with elevator & underground garage, subsidized, rent with purchase option€ 531/month51 m²2 rooms
3264 ReinsbergFirst occupancy in a quiet location with underground garage, subsidized, rental with purchase option€ 539/month52 m²2 rooms
3264 ReinsbergRural living with culture in Reinsberg, subsidized, first occupancy, rent-to-own option€ 525/month49 m²2 roomsListings come directly from estate agents and private owners, via feeds and our own editor. We do not copy portals, and we take no commission.
Not what is asked, but what is actually paid under current tenancies. Statistics Austria surveys this in its microcensus across every main-residence rental in the province, most recently for 2025.
Service charges add €2,50 per m², giving €9,20 gross. A contract less than two years old costs €9,70 per m² net across Austria, one running over twenty years €4,70: what you rent today therefore sits above the figure for existing tenancies.
Statistics Austria, microcensus on housing 2025: average rent across all main-residence rentals per province, euro per m². No finer level than the province exists for this.
Where flats to rent are currently listed, broken down by political district. The link opens the search with exactly that district.
A flat outside the city is rented together with travel time. We compute how much, per municipality and per inhabited area.
For every municipality around the city, the real public transport time to Stephansplatz, computed per inhabited area rather than from the town sign. Between the station and the edge of town there is often half an hour.
See the municipality ranking →Statistics Austria publishes a building-land price for 573 municipalities in Lower Austria, from 12 to 879 euro per square metre. No other figure explains as well why two places in the same district differ in price.
See land prices →Lower Austria subsidises renting and buying through its housing subsidy scheme, with its own income limits and deadlines. Who qualifies for what is on our own page.
See the subsidy →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.
The reference rent of the Tenancy Act caps only flats in buildings permitted before 1945 and a small number of subsidised ones. Most of the rental supply in Lower Austria is younger; there the rent is free: a matter of negotiation, not of law.
There is no official province-wide figure. Rents follow purchase prices: highest around Vienna and in the district towns, lowest in the Waldviertel and the northern Weinviertel. The list above shows today’s listings with the price per square metre.
Yes, but only to flats in buildings permitted before 1945. The Lower Austrian reference rent is one of the lowest in Austria, but it applies to the smallest part of the supply. New builds, cooperatives and single-family houses are not covered.
It varies a lot by municipality and location, from around half an hour to over an hour at the edge of poorly connected municipalities. We computed the public transport time for every inhabited area, not from the town centre.
Yes, and more per head than in Vienna. They are not advertised in listings but allocated by the non-profit housing associations through waiting lists. What we show is the freely offered segment: agents and private owners.
Set your priorities once and the search orders by them: short trip to Vienna, quiet location, budget. A saved search reports every new flat in your district. No account, no cost.