Living (Stay) in Nijmegen
Gelderland, The Netherlands

If you are coming to Nijmegen to live here, be it few days or several months/years, it has a lot of accomodations to offer. There is shortage for accomodation in the public sector houses and the government has imposed several regulation on them.

Short Stay:

Unfortunately, there is only one hostel in Nijmegen Barbarossa (started in July 2013), but there are several hotels and Bed & Breakfasts available for short stay purposes for a wide range of budget. From about EUR 15.90 p.p. you can get a shared room (incl. breakfast) for a single night or 165 per week or EUR 360 for a whole month.
For all the details see B&B Nijmegen.

Some of the Budjet accomodations listed in the above site are:

Wennekes, Nimrodstraat 119, 6531 LE Nijmegen. Tel. + 31 - 24-3554391 Dorm-style EUR 15.90 p.p.p.n.

Plekker, Weezenhof 68-54, 6536 BN Nijmegen. Tel. +31- 24 - 344 2057 EUR 17.50 incl. breakfast

Sanderse, Wachterslaan 325, 6523 RW Nijmegen. Tel +31 - 24 - 323 5171 EUR 25 p.p.p.n. incl breakfast

Schoenmakers, Hengstdalseweg 207, 6523 EH Nijmegen. Tel +31 - 6 1316 7008 EUR 25 p.p.p.n.

La Résidence, Burghardt v. d. Berghstraat 50, 6512 DN Nijmegen. Tel: + 31 - 6 546 83 882 Dorm-style EUR 30 p.p.p.n

Long Stay:

Nijmegen being an International city has several stuidos as well as normal apartments along with many student rooms,for rent. If you're a student you would've already in contact with SSHN for your student accomodation. This is exclusive for students studying in Nijmegen. The following section deals with the private housing agencies. You've to pay registration fee to join the site that are mentioned below (they are brockers) as well as upto 1 month rent as commission when you take something through them. This is one advantage when dealing directly with the landlords, which you can sometimes find in Marktplaats or other notice boards. You can also ask your Dutch collegues if they know of any landloards who has free space. Some of the B&B listed above also allows longterm stay, but you lack a kitchen in many cases. The following site www.Entree.nu is the organisation for public-sector housing in and around Nijmegen, since the waiting list is more than 7 years, most of you won't be able to make use of its services.

Direct Wonen is the biggest (and efficient even though expensive) agency for private housing. Please beware that there have been complaints about payments relating to thier automatic-account renewals. To see the available places in nijmegen go here. You have to keep in mind that most contracts are for 1 year and then for permanent, some might allow a contract less than 1 year.

Other prominant sites are:

Funda

Pararius

24Living Nijmegen (Rots-vast)

ACM (Verbeek)

Other smaller agencies:

WFA

Hestia

If you are just looking for a room to share you can also have a look at kamernet.nl or kamer.nl.

There is another type of renting called temporary renting (Tijdelijk huur). You've less rights with this type of renting and is NOT advisable if you're looking for a long term rent. But these are much cheaper alternative due to this fact and is available quickly. See Interveste for more details. You've to pay a registration fee to see the details of available houses.

For more information on living in Nijmegen for students from the RUN Vox magazineIntroduction Issue 2016

If you need further info or advice please contact and we'll try the best to help you.