Rental flats in Vorarlberg
Vorarlberg is expensive, and measurably so: €9.30 per square metre net, 21 per cent above the Austrian average. Only Tyrol and Salzburg sit higher. Per flat, Vorarlberg is in fact the most expensive province at €619.90 net a month, because flats here are larger than in Tyrol or Salzburg. These figures come from the Statistics Austria microcensus and are what is actually paid under current tenancies.
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These flats are currently for rent in Vorarlberg.
We currently hold no rental flat in Vorarlberg: our providers are so far mostly in eastern Austria. The official rent figures below still apply, they come from Statistics Austria and not from our own stock. A saved search reports the first listing.
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 €2,60 per m², giving €11,80 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.
A rent is one number. What it is worth is decided by the location, and we measure that: noise, greenery, sunlight, real travel times.
Vorarlberg pays housing benefit as the difference between the recognised and the reasonable housing cost, and lends up to 100,000 euro per unit for a new home, graded by land consumption. The limits, the income table and a calculator following the 2026 guideline are on our own page.
See the subsidy →Statistics Austria publishes a building-land price for all 96 municipalities in Vorarlberg. It explains rents too: where land is expensive, new builds are expensive, and they pull rents up with them.
See land prices →Every listing with us carries its location, the energy certificate with class and value, the features from the feed and the check by our quality gate. What a provider does not deliver stays empty instead of being guessed. On a rental, the energy certificate is the second rent: it says what the heating will cost.
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.
In Vorarlberg service charges add €2.60 per square metre, almost exactly the Austrian average of €2.60. What is expensive here is the net rent, not the extras. So compare two offers on the net rent, and ask to see last year’s service-charge statement.
Vorarlberg has the highest monthly rent in Austria, but not the highest rate per square metre. Arithmetically the Vorarlberg rental flat measures 66.7 square metres, the Tyrolean 64.4 and the Viennese 65.8. Anyone looking for a small flat pays less here than the provincial figure suggests.
On provincial average €9.30 per square metre net, plus €2.60 in service charges, so €11.80 gross. Per flat that is €619.90 net a month. Statistics Austria surveyed this in the 2025 microcensus across all 62,200 main-residence rentals in the province.
No, and the gap is large. These are the rents of all current tenancies. A contract less than two years old costs €9.70 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.
Not officially. Statistics Austria surveys rents in the microcensus, and its sample does not support a district level. Purchase has district figures, rent does not. We do not invent them either.
Because space is scarce. The Rhine valley is a narrow valley floor between Lake Constance and the mountains, where settlement, farming and industry compete. Purchase shows the same scarcity: at €4,730 per square metre paid for houses, Vorarlberg is almost twice Lower Austria.
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