# Student housing in Belgium

> How student housing works in Belgium, including providers, queues, deposits, contracts and practical risks to check before signing.

Source of record: https://versityspot.com/study-abroad/belgium/housing
Confirmation: 16 of 16 sections confirmed against their official source (last 2026-08-08).

## Housing

The kot, the Belgian student room, is the housing unit of student life: university-listed kots in Leuven, Ghent and Louvain-la-Neuve run cheaper than Brussels' open market. Registered rental contracts and deposits held in blocked accounts are the norm and protect you.

Brussels is the expensive outlier with the EU-bubble competing for the same flats; the university cities are markedly kinder to student budgets.

*Source: https://www.studyinflanders.be/practical-info/housing*

## Common questions

### What should international students know about housing in Belgium?

Find a kot through the university lists; Brussels costs EU-bubble money.