Blog Tag - Rent

Beijing Releases Plans to Regulate Rental Market
If you've been renting in Beijing, you've probably noticed some questionable practices carried out by landlords, agents, and, more recently, online...
Our 5 Favorite Home Decoration and Furniture Stores in Beijing (That Aren't IKEA)
Almost all rentals in Beijing come furnished, but not necessarily with style, especially for western tastes. There's always the one-stop solution of...
How to Find and Rent an Apartment in Beijing: Everything You Need to Know
Whether you've arrived in Beijing as an impoverished student, a trailing spouse on a lush expat package, or you've been here for years already and...
A Beijing Rental Guide
Navigating the rental market in any big city can be a daunting task. As a foreigner, finding an apartment in Beijing compounds those difficulties...
Ziroom Allows Foreigners Outside China to Terminate Their Lease and Keep Their Deposit
China's blanket ban on foreigners entering the country has meant that many expats who departed in the early days of the pandemic are now left...
Amid Reports of Rental Discounts, Should You Too Try to Renegotiate Your Apartment Lease?
In response to a combination of the COVID-19 crisis and dipping rent prices in certain parts of Beijing, a number of Beijingers report that they have...
Beijing Outlaws Overcrowding in Rental Housing, Leaving Thousands Out of a Home
Online reports indicate that the Beijing municipal government is taking new steps to formalize and regularize rental agreements. While these rental...
R1 Beijing Landlords Now Prohibited From Changing Housing Contracts Terms During Lease
New draft regulations released on Jul 8 detail noteworthy changes to rental policies in the Beijing municipal area. Among other adjustments,...
Let Ziroom Take the Stress out of Your Beijing Rental Experience
In a recent blog, we detailed all the many places you can check out and channels you can leverage to find an apartment in Beijing but based on...
A Complete Guide to Renting an Apartment in Beijing
The task of finding an apartment to rent in any big city, especially if you’re new, is not to be sniffed at and in Beijing, in particular, it can...
Use this App to Stop Getting Ripped Off by Rental Agents
We’ve lived in three different places during our four years in Beijing and house-hunting here is up there among my most loathed pastimes. Who doesn’t...
Monthly Rent Soars To Skyscraper Heights
Monthly residential rent in Beijing rose a wallet-shrinking 25 percent last year, causing concern for the city's millions of occupants. The data...
Trending this Week: Disappearing Share Bikes, Skyrocketing Rent, and a Crackdown on Perverts 
A wrap-up of the top stories and hashtags Beijingers have been discussing on Chinese social media this week, exclusively for the Beijinger by What’s...
Beating the Landlord: New Rental Policies Tip in Favor of Tenants' Interests
Beijing is not a cheap city to live in, especially when it comes to rent prices. It always costs an arm, a leg, and a bowl of tears when you hand...
Stat: Last Year Beijing's Average Rent Per Square Meter Was RMB 71.24
Last year’s data from Diyi Caijing puts Beijing’s average rent in the not-so-desirable spotlight as China’s highest. The average rent per month, per...