Student rentals, online searches in Italy +23% in May

On the national territory, the intensification of preventive research is concentrated in specific urban nodes with a high university density. Turin is positioned as the center with the most marked monthly variationrecording an increase of 54% compared to the previous month, followed by Florence with an increase of 45% and Bologna with 31%. Even the main metropolitan centers of Milan and Rome detect a constant progression in demand, reaching a mirror value of 27%, while Padua closes the list of cities monitored with an increase of 21%.. The need to anticipate contractual deadlines responds to the structural need to evaluate a more diversified rental offer within local markets often characterized by a strong asymmetry between the availability of properties and the volume of requests.

This scenario finds a partial explanation in the demographic changes of the student population recorded at an institutional level. The 2026 ANVUR Report on the higher education and research system notes that students with diplomas obtained abroad enrolled at Italian universities in the 2024/25 academic year reached 111,566 unitsa figure more than doubled compared to the 52,493 registrations recorded in the 2018/19 cycle. This component represents today 5.4% of the total enrolled and is historically concentrated in the North-West regions, a geographical area that hosts 36.3% of the entire share of international students. The strong impact of this category of users accentuates the need to have operational channels accessible remotely for the medium-term rental of properties.

In this transition framework, digital intermediation systems and online verification protocols take on a logistical support function for international mobility. Antonio Intini, CEO of HousingAnywhere, analyzed the structural complexity of the sector: “Finding accommodation as a student can be complex, especially in university cities with high demand. For this reason, technology and timing can make the difference. Platforms like HousingAnywhere respond to the concrete needs of mobile students: furnished accommodation, verified owners and a completely online process, which allows you to search and book a home even before arriving in the destination city. Those who start their search at this stage have access to a greater variety of solutions ahead of SeptemberThe reference infrastructure currently manages a portfolio of over 110,000 properties distributed in more than 170 European urban contexts, mainly intercepting a demographic range between 18 and 35 years and offering furnished housing solutions for medium-term temporal coverage, included in a standard period between 6 and 12 months.