Between the campus and Renens, and where a lot of purpose-built student housing actually is. Two M1 stops, Cerisaie and Épenex, and you can walk to EPFL in twenty minutes along the river. Quiet, residential, and the rents reflect that.
Landlords in Chavannes-près-Renens ask for the same file as anywhere in the canton: a debt-collection extract, proof of income, and a guarantor who lives in Switzerland. Two of those are impossible before you arrive, which is why flatshares and private landlords are the realistic route from abroad.
Your deposit is capped at three months of net rent — up to CHF 3'300 at the top of the range here — and it is blocked in your own name, not the landlord's. How the deposit works
We co-sign leases so the file gets accepted, and we search the market when our own rooms are full.