These can usually provide the quickest and easiest, though not necessarily best value solution to finding a home in Leiden. For a fee (usually about 20 - 50 euro) the agency will give you access to their lists of available properties and help set up viewing appointments with the owners. Beware though: they will not ring you when something comes up, it is up to you to keep ringing to ask what is new (almost on a daily basis!) if you are to get a place. These agencies include:
Kamerraad
Narmstraat 3b (Near Lido cinema in centre of Leiden)
Tel: 5130887
Enroll for 4 months for 35 euro, during this period one can look at
the flats that they have to offer. Extension for a further 4 months is
free (and such extensions can be made again and again) but if you
forget to extend then you have to pay the enrollment fee again. The
flats are a bit downmarket of the other places in the list, but
occasionally have some nice places. They specialise in rooms in
shared houses and small flats in the centre of Leiden. The rooms are
semi-furnished (i.e. stove and fridge, but maybe no chairs!) or
fully-furnished. Definitely worth trying. Rooms in the range
150-350 euro and flats from 400-800 euro. They produce a new list of
available flats twice a week, and the day after the list is made you
can go with a group of all other interested people to see the flat.
The flats are offered in strict order of enrollment date: your chances
improve the longer you're enrolled.
Buro Hogeland
Molensteeg 14
phone: 071 5134654
Enroll for 1 year for 50 euro, during this period one can look at the
flats that they have to offer. Ring (daily if you want) to see what
new flats they have, and call the landlords direct. First come first
served. They have mostly un- and semi-furnished 1 and 2 bedroom
places for 400-800 euro in the centre of Leiden. Most are fully
self-contained, though in some cases an entrance, a kitchen or
bathroom can be shared with another flat.
Others agencies are