Apartments for Rent in Amsterdam

The gap between two whole homes comes first from the number of rooms and the floor area, then from what the advertised rent covers. Two listings showing the same figure do not necessarily carry the same monthly charge.

The rent on a Dutch home breaks into "kale huur", the bare rent, and "servicekosten", the charges for the shared parts of the building. The total is what the tenant pays each month. A listing states which of the two figures it is showing, and that is the first thing to check.

The list of apartments for rent filters on price, move-in date, minimum stay, furnished or not, smoking, pets and the type of property; with Quoloc Plus, also on the twenty-three amenities, the number of rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, the floor, the elevator, parking and who is letting. Moving the map narrows the list to what is in view.

The map on a listing shows a five-hundred-meter circle around the home, never an exact point: Quoloc does not publish the address, and only the person advertising can choose to give it in the exchange. A Street View tab shows the street where coverage exists.

The figures on this page are worked out from homes actually on offer, not from past transactions. An asking rent is not a signed rent, and the page does not claim to give the second. It gives what is online, as of the date shown.

The official unit in Amsterdam is the municipal district: there are seven, plus the Weesp area. A finer scale exists, that of wijken and buurten, but it serves the census and nobody uses it to place a home. A listing is therefore placed by its district, and on the map by a circle around the home.

Teaching institutions are spread over several points in the city: the Zuidas in the south for the Vrije Universiteit, Roeterseiland east of the center for the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park for Amsterdam University College. A whole home let to students is rarely placed against only one of those three.

Seven boroughs for a whole city is still a coarse mesh. It serves to steer a search, never to compare two homes with each other: for that you need the position the map on each listing shows.

For a whole home in Amsterdam, Huurcommissie is the body a case goes to; a single national Huurcommissie, where several regional ones existed before.

What the Huurcommissie looks at is bounded, and it publishes those bounds: it does not settle disputes about a holiday home, a houseboat or business premises. A residential home let on a yearly basis falls within its remit. Its past rulings can be read in the same place.

One and the same detector runs over listings, messages, comments and profiles. It recognizes an email address, a phone number, a social media handle and a web address, including ones written to fool a machine: an address broken up with "(at)" and "(dot)" is caught, and so is a number spaced out digit by digit. The exchange therefore stays where reporting and blocking exist.

An apartment listing carries the rent and its currency, whether utilities are included, the floor area, the number of rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, the floor, the elevator, parking, whether the apartment is furnished, the dates it is available, the minimum stay and who is letting it (the owner, an agency or a tenant moving out). Twenty-three amenities are ticked, from wifi to a garden, and the listing says whether pets and smoking are accepted. All of that can be read before writing.

Exchanges happen in the site's messaging. You can write from the moment you register, without the other person having to allow anything: a published listing and a published profile are both contactable. Messages stay grouped and the history remains available.

Every listing and every profile carries a report button, and a report keeps its state until it is closed. A person can also be blocked, and the block runs both ways: the person blocked receives no notification and simply can no longer write to whoever blocked them, or comment on their listings or profile.