Houses to rent in Bregenz
A whole house to rent is the scarcest thing this market offers, and the reason is the price of land: at 4,955 euro per square metre in the district of Bregenz, selling almost always pays better than letting. Anyone searching anyway should search the whole valley, not the city.
See houses to rent →These houses are currently for rent in Bregenz.
We currently hold no house to rent in Vorarlberg. Houses to rent are the scarcest segment across Austria, and in Vorarlberg especially. A saved search reports the first listing.
For a house, what counts is the land it stands on and what may happen around it. In Vorarlberg both are officially recorded.
Vorarlberg publishes the zoning of every municipality with the designation spelled out, the municipality and the plan date. We query it per address. Whether the neighbouring plot is residential, mixed or commercial decides noise, traffic and what may still be built there.
Check the zoning →For every Bregenz district and every municipality in the Rhine valley we measure noise, greenery, heat, sunlight and real transit travel times. Not from the town sign, but per cell. In a valley with the Pfänder rising to the east, sunlight is no side issue.
See the district atlas →Statistics Austria publishes a building-land price for all 96 municipalities in Vorarlberg. In a valley where the flat ground is scarce, that explains more than any district average.
See land prices →Bregenz has 29,270 inhabitants, the market 311,231. From Bregenz station Dornbirn is 11 minutes away by train, exactly as far as the Achsiedlung within Bregenz itself. The neighbouring municipality of Möggers is 8 kilometres away and takes 100 minutes. Anyone who sticks to the city limits here drops half the flats that are equally quick to reach, for no reason.
A building with no more than two self-contained dwellings is fully exempt from the Austrian Tenancy Act (§ 1 para 2 no 5 MRG). No reference rent, no ceiling, no rules on fixed terms, no statutory protection against notice. What counts is the contract, which makes it more important here than for any flat.
In an unrenovated detached house it can match the base rent in winter. The energy certificate is mandatory for every letting and belongs before the viewing, not before the signature. A house rated F costs a multiple of a renovated one to run.
No building manager settles the accounts for a house. Sewage, waste, chimney sweep, garden and snow clearing are either in the contract or they are not, and in the exempt range upkeep may be assigned differently too. Go through those lines one by one before signing.
Because land here is scarce and expensive. With house prices paid at 4,730 euro per square metre on provincial average, letting a whole house rarely pays against selling it. Anyone looking for a house finds more for sale than to rent in Vorarlberg.
Usually not. Houses with one or two dwellings are fully exempt from the Tenancy Act (§ 1 para 2 no 5 MRG). The rent is freely agreed, a fixed term needs no minimum length, and notice follows the civil code and the contract. A house with three or more dwellings is different, there the Act applies at least in part.
Statistics Austria publishes no separate house figure. For all main-residence rentals in Vorarlberg together it is 9.30 euro per square metre net and 11.80 gross. At 130 square metres that would be roughly 1,209 euro net, but that is an extrapolation from the provincial average and not a surveyed house figure.
For a house all the more. The stock is so thin that sticking to the city limits leaves the search almost empty, and Dornbirn is 11 transit minutes from Bregenz station. The market covers 38 municipalities.
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