Housing

Start here if you are looking for a place to live.

Where to look for accommodation

If you are looking for accommodation, go to:

• Housing for students at RMIT: search this database for accommodation near your campus. You can also advertise your vacancies on the database. It is free to all current and future RMIT students
• Accommodation options available: resources to find student apartment complexes, student hostels, rental properties, share houses, temporary accommodation and homestay information
• crisis assistance: when you have nowhere safe to sleep tonight.

Where to live around Melbourne

Discover where to live with information on suburbs, transport and accommodation options for:

• City campus
• Brunswick campus
• Bundoora campus
• Point Cook campus
• Hamilton campus

Understanding your rights as a renter

To understand your rights and responsibilities as a renter go to:

• Consumer Affairs Victoria
• Tenants Union of Victoria.

Applying for rental properties?

Read our renters guide first.

Moving tips

See our tips for moving house successfully.

Newly arriving international students to Melbourne

See our:

• arrival services for international students page
• temporary accommodation options for when you first arrive in Melbourne
• information for under 18 international students.

Need other information and advice?

• Study and learning
• Work and careers
• Financial advice
• Scholarships
• Student legal advice
• Personal counselling
• Health
• Spirituality
• Childcare

Support for all students including:

• international student support
• students living with a disability, long-term illness or mental illness
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.