Houses 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. A whole house to rent is the exception here too, and between Linz-Land and the Innviertel there are two different markets.
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These houses are currently for rent in Oberösterreich.
With 3 listings this is not yet a broad choice. A saved search reports every new house as soon as an Upper Austrian provider delivers to us.
SpallerhofVilla for rent in a quiet residential location in Wasserwald, Linz!€ 2.739/month239 m²9 rooms
SpallerhofSpacious single-family house with large garden and terraces "Spallerhof"/"Wasserwald" for rent in Linz!€ 2.739/month205 m²
4600 WelsLiving with history - charming period house in Wels with castle flair – stylish living on approx. 118 m²€ 1.701/month118 m²4 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 houses are currently listed to rent, broken down by district. The link opens the search with exactly that district.
For a house, what may happen around it is what counts. In Upper Austria that is officially recorded, and we show it per address.
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 →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.
Upper Austria publishes the zoning of every municipality. If the house sits in or next to a commercial building area, businesses may appear there, with deliveries and operating hours. That costs no rent and is still the difference between two addresses that look identical in a listing.
Statistics Austria publishes no separate house figure. For all main-residence rentals in the province together it is 6.90 euro per square metre net and 9.30 gross. At 130 square metres that would be roughly 897 euro net and 1,209 gross, but that is an extrapolation from the provincial average and not a surveyed house figure.
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.
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.
Where the purchase price is high enough that letting pays against selling, which means the central belt. A house costs 2,632 euro per square metre at the median of the districts, 4,294 in the city of Linz and 2,040 in Schärding. In the Innviertel and the Mühlviertel houses tend to be sold, in the Linz commuter belt they tend to be let.
Set your priorities once and the search orders by them: budget, quiet location, short trips, sunlight. A saved search reports new houses in your district. No account, no cost.