FAQ Kamernet Rent Report

This FAQ page is updated quarterly. The latest version, from August 2025, includes data from the Q2 2025 report.

August 2025. The Kamernet Rent Report is a quarterly publication that highlights price trends for rooms and apartments listed on Kamernet, the largest student rental platform in the Netherlands. This initiative has been ongoing for two years.

Properties and advertisers

What type of properties does the report analyze?

The report analyzes rooms and apartments advertised via Kamernet’s platform, which are typically listed by private landlords, real estate agents, or roommates. The report does not include rooms advertised by social student housing providers, which generally have lower prices than those offered on commercial rental platforms such as Kamernet.

How many properties were analyzed?

The Kamernet Rent Report for Q2 2025 analyzed 17,441 properties listed on the platform during Q2 2025 and Q2 2024. This total includes 14,619 rooms and 2,822 apartments.

Are the rooms analyzed in the report furnished?

The rooms analyzed can be furnished or unfurnished, sometimes without floor covering. Of all the rooms analyzed in Q2 2025, 47% were furnished, compared to 51% in Q2 2024.

Are the apartments analyzed in the report furnished?

The apartments analyzed can be furnished or unfurnished, sometimes without floor covering. Of all the apartments analyzed in Q2 2025, 63% were furnished, compared to 58% in Q2 2024.

Which advertiser types are included in the report?

In 2025 so far, 37% of the rooms advertised in Kamernet were listed by private landlords, 50% by roommates, and 7.4% by real estate agents, with the remaining 5% listed by others. For apartments, 67% were listed by private landlords, 20% by real estate agents, and the remainder by roommates or other parties.

Which segment of the room rental market in the Netherlands does the report represent?

The report represents rooms advertised by private individuals, including private landlords, roommates, and real estate agents. It does not include rooms advertised by student housing associations, which generally have lower prices. According to the Landelijke Monitor Studentenhuisvesting 2024/25 by Kences, more than 400,000 students in the Netherlands live away from home. Of these, 43% live in rooms offered by private landlords, nearly 40% live in rooms provided by housing associations, and the rest stay in rooms rented informally, with landlady rentals or via other arrangements.

Geographic scope and methodology

How many cities does the report cover?

The Q2 2025 report covers 18 cities for rooms and 11 cities for apartments. The cities analysed for rooms are: Amsterdam, Arnhem, Breda, Delft, Den Haag, Ede, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Haarlem, Leeuwarden, Leiden, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Utrecht, and Wageningen. The cities for apartments are: Amsterdam, Breda, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Groningen, Haarlem, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Tilburg, and Utrecht.

How many properties does the report analyze per city?

The number of properties varies per city. In the room category, in the biggest cities, such as Amsterdam, more than 1,000 rooms are usually analyzed in each quarter. In other popular student cities, like Utrecht, Groningen and Rotterdam, the units are usually between 300 and 800. Smaller cities may have less than 100 units, but always more than 30. In the apartments category, the most popular cities can have up to 500 listings to a minimum of 30.

How are the prices per city calculated?

The absolute rent price for a city in either the room or apartment category is calculated as a median across all listed units in that city. The square meter rent price for a city is also calculated as a median of the per-square-meter prices from all listings.

Why do some city rent prices not match the ones Kamernet reported in August 2024?

Starting with the Q2 2025 report, Kamernet began reporting city rents using the median instead of the average. While the rent prices for Q2 2024 reported in 2024 were calculated using the average, the Q2 2024 prices included in the 2025 report (for year-over-year comparison) were recalculated using the median.

This is why some prices differ. Both calculation methods are valid, but the change was introduced to provide a more accurate representation of reality by reducing the impact of outliers.

How is the national room rent price calculated?

The national room rent price is calculated as a weighted average, which takes into account the number of units in each city. To calculate the yearly variation in the national price, the weighted average from Q2 2025 is compared to the weighted average from Q2 2024 to determine the percentage change.

Are Kamernet users students only?

Not only, but predominantly. While the platform is particularly popular among students, anyone can rent a property listed on Kamernet.

Press contact

If you have more questions, do not hesitate to reach out to the Kamernet press team at pers@kamernet.nl.