CARO-rents for university students: increases of +7-10% on average in all cities

Article published on September 5, 2025 on homacoop.it; the data refer to that date.

University housing emergency: data for 2025

The phenomenon of expensive rent continues to significantly affect the real estate market dedicated to university students in Italy, with increasing difficulties in accessing safe housing solutions, close to universities and sustainable from an economic point of view. A problem that affects large and medium-sized cities in a transversal way, from North to South.

An updated analysis for the 2024/2025 academic year confirms generalized increases in rents for single rooms, increasing by an average of 8.5% nationally, with increases often exceeding 10% in Central and Southern regions.

Here is an extract of the data collected by cercoalloggio.com in the year 2025 (up to August) compared to the same period of 2024:

• Milan: average single room cost 659 euros, national record (634€ in 2024)
• Turin: 497 euros average per single room (the price remained unchanged compared to 2024).
• Florence: 560 euros, with students often forced to move to the suburbs (2024 figure, 545 euros)
• Bologna: more than 600 euros for central areas.
• Bari: 370 euros average cost per single room
• Brescia: 455 euros (last year the average cost was 444 euros)

Genoa, Ancona and Siena: from 334 euros to 390 euros, a medium-sized city where the availability of rooms is often limited (all increasing by an average of about 20/24 euros)

Milan, the city with the most expensive market, records an average cost per single room of about 637 euros per month with peaks of up to 747 euros in the most central districts. Other large cities such as Rome, Florence, Bologna and Turin show significant increases, with average fees that fluctuate between 400 and 650 euros per month in the areas most frequented by students.

Even in the South and in the islands, growth is important, with increases of around 10%-15% and particularly critical situations in cities such as Palermo and Catanzaro, where prices have increased by more than 6.3% and 23.9% respectively.

This dynamic, combined with the historic scarcity of student beds, makes finding housing a real challenge for many students, so much so that “studying outside the office risks becoming a luxury for a few”, as evidenced by numerous young university students.

In response to this housing emergency, the Ministry of University and Research, through thePNRR call, has already collected about60,000 applications for the creation of new student beds, with additional resources of more than 800 million euros distributed since 2023 for funding existing and under construction structures. The goal is to reach 60,000 new beds by June 2026, a number that, however, is struggling to meet growing demand.

Universities and the central role of digital home desks

In this context, HOMA Cooperative Society promotes concrete solutions to mitigate the problem of expensive rents and the lack of beds, acting on several fronts through thecercoalloggio.comportal andAccomodation Service services with numerous universities and bodies for the right to study. Currently, HOMA is an official supplier for universities such as the University and the Polytechnic of Turin, the University of Insubria, Bergamo, Genoa, and many others.

The portal — the only one in Italy that currently verifies every property entered in person — houses more than 13,472 verified rooms and has more than 165,667 registered users, offering personalized assistance for choosing the best housing solution, with additional services such as virtual tour of the apartments (almost 92% of the ads are equipped with them), contractual support and customer care dedicated to Italian and international students.

HOMA and its commitment to the management of Residences

In addition, HOMAis one of the main national players in student housing, withresidences under management in Lecce and Brescia and new openings expected in the coming months for a total of about 2000 beds. These initiatives represent a decisive step in ensuring modern, safe and accessible housing, helping to counteract the effects of rising prices and the chronic shortage of beds.

“Our goal is to make the rental market more transparent and secure, guaranteeing students reliable solutions near university centers and at the same time protecting landlords,” explains Carlo Monticelli, President of HOMA. “Investing in new student residences, often recovering abandoned and no longer functioning spaces in the city (editor's note, as done in the cities of Brescia and Lecce), does not only mean responding to an emergency, but building a better future for Italian students and universities.”

This text is an automatic translation from Italian, produced with artificial intelligence (Amazon Translate).