A lease that ends when the semester does.

Take the place for a semester or a placement, furnished, with no rental history needed.

Typical stay: One semester
Shortest booking: 1 week
Included: Bills, furniture, Wi-Fi

Browse 97 furnished homes How medium-term renting works

A semester is not twelve months. Neither is an exchange, a clinical rotation or a regional placement. Yet the standard rental market offers one lease length, and student housing often wants a full academic year signed before you have arrived.

A medium-term rental matches the term to the study. Take a furnished home for the semester, the placement or the exchange, with bills and Wi-Fi already connected and no rental history required.

Homes can be searched by suburb, so you can stay near campus or near the placement rather than wherever happened to be available.

Why this is hard to solve

Leases do not match semesters: A twelve-month lease over a six-month exchange means paying for a home you are not in, or breaking it.
No rental history yet: First-time and international renters rarely have the local references agencies ask for.
Furnishing a place for one semester: Buying a household for six months, then selling it again, is a bad trade.
Placements move you around: Clinical and regional placements put you in a different town for weeks at a time.

How it usually goes

Four steps, in the order they actually happen.

Book before you arrive
Particularly from overseas. Landing without somewhere to live, in the same fortnight as every other new student, is the hardest version of this.
Start the semester from a home
Furnished, connected and ready, so week one is orientation rather than furniture shopping.
Use it while you find a share house
Most people end up in a share house eventually. Doing that from a fixed address, having met people, beats doing it from a hostel in your first week.
End it with the semester
The term matches the study period instead of running through a summer you are not here for.

How EzyFlats fits

Terms from one week to 24 months — a semester, a placement or a full year
Fully furnished with bills and Wi-Fi included, nothing to buy or connect
No local rental history required; verification is ID and income based
Search by suburb to stay near campus or a placement
Move-In Guarantee on every booking

What to check before you book

Worth asking of any home you are considering, here or anywhere else.

How long does it take to get to campus on public transport?: At the times of your actual timetable, including the early ones.
Is there somewhere to study?: A desk and a door matter more than they sound like they do by week ten.
Does the term cover the exam period?: Teaching weeks and the semester are not the same length. Check the end date against the exam timetable, not the last lecture.
How fast is the internet, really?: Recorded lectures, submissions and online exams all assume it works.
Are the bills included?: A weekly rate with electricity and Wi-Fi in it is much easier to budget against than a rent plus four variable accounts.

What it costs, and who usually pays

The weekly rate includes furniture, electricity, gas, water and Wi-Fi, which makes the comparison against purpose-built student accommodation reasonably direct. The difference is usually the term: you take a semester rather than a full year, so you are not paying through a summer you spend at home.

No twelve-month lease, no rental history required, and no need to sign anything before you have seen the country.