Flats to rent in Upper Austria
After Vienna, Upper Austria has the most rental dwellings in the country, 237,300 by the count of Statistics Austria. The average paid is 6.90 euro per square metre net, noticeably below the national average of 7.70. Between the Linz central belt and the Mühlviertel there are two different markets.
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BulgariplatzAir-conditioned 3-room penthouse apartment with approx. 60m² terrace for rent near Hummelhofwald in Linz!€ 1.804/month93 m²3 rooms
SpallerhofSpacious 2-room apartment with terrace and loggia for rent in Linz!€ 888/month65 m²2 rooms
EnnsCozy 1-room apartment in Enns, 52m², top location€ 462/month52 m²1 rooms
KaplanhofCharming 2.5-room apartment with cozy south-facing private garden in Linz for rent!€ 960/month55 m²2.5 rooms
4400 SteyrCharming 3-room apartment with loggia in Steyr, 76m², bathtub, shower, district heating!€ 738/month76 m²3 rooms
GramastettenLiving close to nature at Pöstlingberg - charming maisonette apartment with good infrastructure in Linz for rent!€ 899/month78 m²2.5 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 €9,30 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 are currently listed to rent, broken down by district. The link opens the search with exactly that district.
What a flat really costs is not the rent alone. Three things about that are officially documented.
Upper Austria maintains the zoning of every municipality in a single provincial service. For a rented house it tells you what may appear next door: residential, mixed and commercial building areas are three different neighbourhoods.
See the zoning →Upper Austrian housing benefit goes to tenants in privately owned older stock as well. It depends on income, household size and an eligible dwelling size, and on a house that last limit is the decisive one.
See housing benefit →For every Linz district and surrounding municipality we measure noise, greenery, heat, sunlight and real transit travel times, per 250-metre cell and not from the town sign. None of that is in a listing.
See the district atlas →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.
For purchases the range runs from 3,640 euro per square metre in the city of Linz down to 1,738 in Rohrbach, more than double. For rents there is no district figure, but the same gradient. Search the commuter belt and you pay Linz prices; half an hour further out it is a different market, with different transit.
Statistics Austria measures 6.90 euro per square metre net and 9.30 gross, on average 461.40 euro net per dwelling. The national average is 7.70 net. No figure per district is surveyed for rents.
No. These are the rents of all current tenancies. A contract less than two years old costs 9.70 euro per square metre net across Austria, one running over twenty years 4.70: more than double. Anyone renting anew today sits above the provincial figure.
Usually not. Since 1 July 2023 the first-instructing-party principle applies to rentals: whoever instructs the agent pays them, and that is almost always the landlord.
For rents no district figure is published. For purchases the median across the districts is 2,639 euro per square metre, from 3,640 in the city of Linz down to 1,738 in Rohrbach. The central belt around Linz is expensive; the Mühlviertel and the Innviertel are cheap.
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