Houses to rent in Innsbruck
Innsbruck is built narrow between the Nordkette and the Patscherkofel, so a house almost always sits either on the valley floor or on the slope. Both have measured consequences: the valley floor carries the motorway, the railway and the through roads at once, the slope carries the official hazard zones of the Province of Tyrol. We show both per address.
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These houses are currently available to rent in Innsbruck and its surroundings.
We currently have no house to rent in Innsbruck. Houses to rent are the scarcest segment there is, and all the more so in the tightest housing market in Austria. We do not pretend otherwise. A saved search will tell you as soon as one comes in.
With a house the neighbourhood decides the years you spend there, and no brochure writes anything verifiable about it. These sources are official and available for every address.
On 21 December the sun in Innsbruck reaches 19 degrees at midday. The mountain ridges to the south rise 10 to 19 degrees above the city. Anyone living at Sieglanger barely sees the winter sun, anyone in Hötting sees it all day. That is what we calculate, instead of calling it "south facing".
Open the sun check →Innsbruck is an official agglomeration, so the environmental noise map covers the whole city area. In the valley the Inn valley motorway, the Brenner axis and the western railway run within a few kilometres of each other, and the difference between two streets is bigger than between two districts.
Open the noise map →The Inn valley traps heat between two mountain ranges, and the city keeps no official climate map. We calculate heat load from the official sealing level and state the source next to every figure.
Open the heat map →Innsbruck is the most expensive housing market in Austria, ahead of Vienna and Salzburg. What that means per district, and how far existing rents and new lettings differ, is on our price page.
See prices →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.
Avalanche, torrent and rockfall are officially mapped in Tyrol, and at the foot of a slope that is not a side issue but a hard criterion. We show the zones per address. With a rented house this is the question you ask before signing, not after the first winter.
Innsbruck is a designated agglomeration, so the noise map covers the whole city area, unlike in our two youngest markets. The loudest corridor is in Wilten, where motorway, railway and road come together: there the map shows the top band of both scales. Aircraft noise additionally reaches the western districts.
Anyone who does not intend to use a house around Innsbruck as their main residence runs into the Tyrolean second-home rules. They are strict and differ from municipality to municipality. For renting this comes up less often than for buying, but it is worth asking before a contract exists.
Hardly in the city itself: Innsbruck is densely built, and detached houses are mainly in Hötting West, Amras, Igls and on the Mittelgebirge terraces. The surrounding area is more realistic, so Völs, Rum, Thaur, Aldrans, Lans and towards Hall.
Because houses to rent are the scarcest segment across Austria, and Innsbruck is additionally the most expensive flat market of our seven cities. A house worth 7,655 euros per square metre is rarely let. So we show what exists and do not claim a market that does not.
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.
Through our hazard zone page for Tyrol, which shows the official provincial zones per address. The binding answer comes from the municipality, but for a shortlist before a viewing the map is enough.
Set your priorities once and the search orders by them: a quiet location, sun against the mountain horizon, short journeys, budget. And because rented houses go quickly, a saved search is especially worthwhile here. No account, no cost.