Rent out your property furnished or unfurnished?

Are you in doubt to rent out your property furnished or unfurnished? Furnished apartments and houses are very popular with expats, expats mostly have a temporary contracts at companies in Eindhoven and surroundings.

One of the most difficult decisions that a property owner needs to take is the choice between renting out his/her property furnished or unfurnished.

About 70% of the possible tenants at Budget Housing are looking for furnished apartments or houses and 30% for unfurnished. By furnishing your property you will, without a doubt, get the interest of a lot more possible tenants. A smaller group is looking for unfurnished apartments or houses, these are relatively a lot of families and people looking to rent your property for a long amount of time. Furthermore, we see that dutch want unfurnished apartments houses , the same goes for expats which are here in the Netherlands for a long amount of time.

• In case you want to rent our your property furnished, Budget Housing’s advice is the following: design your property with the ideal tenant in your mind.
• The interior has a big influence on the chance you rent out your property fast and to the ideal tenant, mostly even more than the location, the size or the lay-out. In other words, there is no need to worry about the interior if your aim is to get tenants with a high income.
• And don’t forget, the way you arrange your property is of influence of how people will treat it: interior which is well taken care of will be used with care.

Try to keep it simple and aim for neutrality when you arrange your property. Taste is personal and neutrality is interesting for a larger group of people. Furthermore, people can easily make a neutral house their own.

Tenans expect to have modern equipment and provisions. Flatscreen-tv’s and microwaves are considered as standard. Equipment such as a toaster and a coffee machine needs to be in a good state.