Luxembourg Report Shows Rental Prices Vary Sharply Across Greater Region

On Wednesday 30 September 2026, Luxembourg’s Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning published its Housing Observatory Report on “Advertised Rents in 2025 in Luxembourg’s Functional Area”.

The ministry said the study highlights the considerable diversity of apartments offered for rent in 2025 across Luxembourg’s functional area. The differences concern not only Luxembourg and the neighbouring border regions, but also the border regions themselves, in terms of advertised rent levels, floor areas and the energy performance of apartments offered for rent.

According to the report, the median advertised rent per m² for apartments (€33/m²) is three times higher in Luxembourg than in the neighbouring regions. Rent levels also differ between the border regions. Advertised rents per m² are particularly high in Northern Lorraine, where the median rent reaches €12/m², compared with around €10/m² in Wallonia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Northern Lorraine is nevertheless characterised by a smaller supply of housing, with a median floor area of 59 m², compared with 89 m² in Wallonia. The advertised monthly rent per dwelling is therefore higher in south-eastern Wallonia (€850) and, to a lesser extent, in western Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate (€750) than in Northern Lorraine (€680). 

The report highlighted that comparing floor areas and rents per m² therefore shows that differences in monthly rents between areas cannot be interpreted independently of the size of the housing offered. These differences in size are also reflected in the composition of the supply according to the number of bedrooms: dwellings with three or more bedrooms are less frequently represented in rental advertisements in Northern Lorraine, Wallonia and Luxembourg than in those in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Advertised rent levels also show significant contrasts at local level. A comparison of French municipalities in the immediate vicinity of the Luxembourg border reveals particularly high advertised rents per m², for example in Audun-le-Tiche (€20/m²), Cattenom (€19/m²), Entrange (€18.50/m²) and Volmerange-les-Mines (€17/m²). Rent levels there are significantly higher than the average and median levels observed across groups of municipalities and in the main towns and cities. These rent levels may be considered in the context of the proximity of Luxembourg’s labour market and its influence on residential demand, but also in relation to the composition of the supply and the specific characteristics of the different local markets.

The ministry said that analysis of these differences is all the more relevant because they may influence households’ residential choices and thereby contribute to differences in the socio-demographic profiles of populations settling in these areas. In Northern Lorraine in particular, the strong representation of smaller dwellings and the limited availability of housing better suited to families contrasts with the structure of supply observed in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate, while south-eastern Wallonia is characterised by a generally more spacious supply of apartments, but with few bedrooms. This structure of supply can be considered in the context of cross-border demand: some advertisements explicitly refer to cross-border workers as a household profile for which the housing is particularly suitable.