Renting out in Eindhoven

In 2025 Eindhoven passed 250,000 residents and is the fastest-growing city in Brabant, driven by Brainport and ASML, which is adding thousands of jobs. The TU/e draws many students and knowledge workers, but the room shortage is severe: in autumn 2024 hundreds of students dropped their enrolment for lack of housing. The municipality sees hospita rental as the designated route for owner-occupiers.

Hospita rental: permit-free

You don't need a permit if you are the owner (or rent from a corporation with permission) and have lived there for at least one year in the same household, rent to a maximum of one person (optionally with up to two of that person's children), and share the kitchen, toilet and bathroom. The statutory nine-month trial period also applies here.

Renting to more people

From three rooms or residents you need an environmental permit, and a 30-metre distance rule to existing room rental applies (across the whole city, except the centre). New policy rules apply since 1 January 2026: several neighbourhoods are 'locked' for new room rental, such as Woensel-West, Limbeek-Noord and -Zuid, Bennekel-Oost and Doornakkers. A temporary transition scheme (2026) allows the legalisation of long-standing situations.

Official info: gemeente Eindhoven: hospita rental (in Dutch). As of June 2026. Always check the current rules with your municipality.

For the national rules, see General rules for room rental. Also check the impact on your municipal taxes.