Find a roommate in Utrecht, then find a place together.
Vond matches people, not rooms. Say how you actually live, see who lines up, and write to them. Free for tenants, with no paywall to send a message.
I’m a landlord- Matched on how you live
- Listings built with the owner
- No agency fees
- No pay-to-message
- GDPR-first
Finding a home in Utrecht
shouldn’t start with a fee.
€0
Agency fee
Finding a home on Vond costs you nothing. There is no agency in the middle to pay.
€0
To message a landlord
No subscription, no credits, no paying just to ask whether a place is still free.
2023
The law behind you
Art. 7:417 BW says a landlord’s agent may not charge you, the tenant, a mediation fee. Since 1 July 2023 the gemeente can enforce it too.
Roommates
Start with who you live with.
A Vond profile describes a person. Set how you actually live and see who lines up. These six are made up. The matching is the real thing.
How you live
Change anything here and the cards read themselves against you again.
Where you want to be
At home, usually
Your hours
Smoking
Fits right now: 2 of 6
Marta K. 26
Oudwijk · Wittevrouwen
Cooks most evenings. Up early.
Good roommate fit
3 of 4 habits line up
Drag the card, or use the buttons.
Invented profiles, real matching rules.
Roommates matches people to people. It is a separate thing from finding a home: whether you then go looking together or you join their place is between you.
The other half
No rooms are listed yet
Vond opens in Utrecht on a date we have not set yet. Until then there is nothing here to show you, and an empty page is the honest version of that.
See the Houses pageThe honest comparison
Somewhere else, saying hello costs €39 for four weeks.
Elsewhere, that is
€108
in fees just to be allowed to send messages, with no guarantee anyone replies.
The least that costs on their published plans: 1 × 12 weeks at €79 + 1 × 2 weeks at €29.
Dutch law (art. 7:417 lid 4 BW) forbids charging a tenant on a landlord’s listing. Vond is built on the right side of it: the landlord pays, and only once the room is actually let.
What we check
Four things, before a room reaches you.
Every listing built with the owner
Nothing goes live until the landlord presses Publish. We speak to whoever is letting the room and build the listing with them before it appears.
No verification badge, deliberately
We do not verify identity and we do not check a register. We would rather say that than imply a check we do not run.
The landlord’s contact details on every listing
You can reach them without going through us. That is deliberate: a platform that stands between you and the landlord is the thing the fee ban exists to stop.
Zero tolerance for fake listings
One ghost listing and the account is gone. Where you often cannot tell from the page whether a room is real, this is the only policy that means anything.
How a listing is made
Every listing is built with the owner.
We talk to the owner first
Nothing goes live until the landlord presses Publish. We speak to whoever is letting the place before their listing exists.
We write it together
The listing is built with them, so what you read is the flat as it is rather than the version that photographs well.
It goes live when they publish it
Fewer listings reach you, and the ones that do are real. No ghost ads, and nothing you have to pay to answer.
The honest comparison
Same hunt. Two different weeks.
Compare renting today with renting on Vond
- Messaging a landlord
- Often behind a monthly subscription.
- The agency fee
- Often charged to the renter.
- The listing
- You find out whether it is real by turning up.
- Finding a roommate
- A second search, somewhere else entirely.
I spent months hunting for a place in Amsterdam. A monthly subscription gave me the right to send messages. Half of them went into silence. Some of the listings, I am still fairly sure, never existed. To a Greek expat with no Dutch network, the market was a lottery behind a paywall. When I finally signed a lease, the sensible thing was to move on. I built what I had wanted instead. We are opening in Utrecht first: a rental market is local, and one city done properly is worth more than ten done vaguely.
Know your rights
A landlord’s agent can’t charge you a fee
Under Dutch law (art. 7:417 BW) an agent acting for the landlord may not charge you, the tenant, a mediation (bemiddelings) fee, and since 1 July 2023 the gemeente can enforce it. If you already paid one, you can often reclaim it. On Vond you talk to landlords directly, so there’s no agency in the middle and no fee to begin with.
Reclaim a fee you already paidWhere this goes
One city, in order.
Open now. We are talking to Utrecht landlords one at a time and writing each listing with them. Slow on purpose: a hundred listings we have stood behind beats a thousand we have not.
Match on how you actually live, not on who replied first. The matching rules on this page are the real ones. The six people are not, yet.
Rooms, from the people letting them, with their own contact details on every one. No rooms are listed yet, and we would rather say that plainly than let a screenshot imply otherwise.
Only once Utrecht works. A rental market is local: the law, the neighbourhoods, the way landlords behave. We would rather be right about one city than vague about ten.
Before you ask
You describe how you live: your hours, noise, tidiness, smoking, and where you want to be. We show you people whose answers line up with yours. It is labels rather than a score, and it is never a shortcut to a home.
Finding a home is free, and messaging a landlord is never behind a paywall. Landlords pay us when a listing works out. That is the whole business model.
We speak to whoever is letting the place and write the listing with them. We do not check a register and we do not hand out a badge, because we would rather show fewer listings we have actually stood behind.
Vond opens in Utrecht on a date we have not set yet. Join the waitlist and you are in on the day it does.
The first five hundred
500 windows. One of them is yours.
A drawing, not a counter: all five hundred are here whether or not anyone has taken them yet. Utrecht opens first.
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