Finding an Apartment in Frankfurt: High Rents, ABG, and the Taunus

Cold rents near €17.80/m², ABG municipal allocation, and when expanding into Bad Homburg or Darmstadt is the realistic family search.

Updated on 3 August 2026

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Frankfurt's housing market moves like its finance sector: international, expensive, and impatient. If you need a multi-bedroom family flat inside the city limits, you will feel that scarcity fast. For national rules on SCHUFA, deposits, and scams, see Finding an Apartment in Germany.

Frankfurt is Germany's second most expensive rental market after Munich. In Q1 2026, average cold rent for existing apartments was about €17.80 per m². New builds averaged €20.60 per m². In expatriate favourites such as Westend, Nordend, or Sachsenhausen, rents often exceed those averages, and well-located or furnished flats commonly run from about €900 to over €2,200 per month.

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