Monthly and long term stays in Birmingham
1 month rentals in Birmingham, without a tenancy
Furnished apartments let by the month in Birmingham. Bills, wifi and cleaning included, no twelve month commitment, and no referencing or deposit scheme to get through first.
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The short answer
A furnished flat in Birmingham you can take for a month.
A one month rental sits in the gap the normal rental market leaves open. Letting agents want a twelve month assured shorthold tenancy, referencing, a guarantor and a protected deposit. A hotel will take you for a month but will charge you as though you were there for three nights. What we do is let whole furnished apartments in Birmingham by the month: you arrive with a suitcase, everything is already there, every bill is in the price, and when the month is up you either extend or you hand the keys back. Our Birmingham properties are in the Jewellery Quarter, walking distance from the centre.
Called a few different things
People search for this in a dozen ways and mean the same thing. A 1 month rental Birmingham listing, short stay apartments Birmingham, short term apartment rentals Birmingham, short term apartments Birmingham, monthly rentals Birmingham, short let apartments Birmingham, long stay apartments Birmingham, temporary accommodation Birmingham, a one month short term rental, a 1 month apartment rental Birmingham, a month to month lease, a monthly let, or simply a flat for a month.
Why the normal route does not work
You do not need a twelve month tenancy. You need somewhere to live for a month.
That mismatch is the whole problem. A letting agent cannot help you, because their product is a year. A hotel can help you but the arithmetic is unpleasant by week two, and you still cannot cook. A monthly rental is the thing in between, and it tends to suit people in one of these situations:
Where you would be
What a month in Birmingham actually puts you near.
The centre is genuinely walkable
The core of Birmingham is smaller than the city's reputation suggests. New Street to the Jewellery Quarter is about a fifteen minute walk, Brindleyplace and the Mailbox are closer than that, and Digbeth sits at the other end of the same stroll. Stay a month and you stop using transport for most of your week, which is the biggest single difference from visiting.
Doing a real weekly shop
The city centre runs largely on smaller convenience shops, which is fine for a weekend and irritating by week three. A proper weekly shop usually means one of the larger stores outside the core, out towards Selly Oak or Perry Barr, or a delivery slot, which is what most people staying a month settle into. Worth sorting in the first few days rather than the third week.
The canals are the good secret
Birmingham's towpaths start at Gas Street Basin in the middle of town and run out in several directions, almost entirely away from traffic. They are the best walking and running routes in the city and most short stay visitors never find them. They are also unlit in long stretches, so they work far better in daylight than late on a winter evening.
Getting out of the city
A month is long enough that you will want some weekends elsewhere. Sutton Park to the north is one of the largest urban parks in Europe and feels like open country once you are inside it. The Lickey and Clent Hills sit to the south west, and trains from Moor Street run down towards Stratford upon Avon and the Warwickshire countryside.
Laundry, late shops and Sundays
Launderettes are thin on the ground in central Birmingham, so you rely on the machine in the flat and on the fact that nothing dries quickly indoors in winter. Convenience shops stay open late all over the centre, larger supermarkets do not, and Sunday trading hours catch most people out exactly once. None of that matters for three nights and all of it matters by week two.
Eating well over a month
The city rewards a long stay because the best food is not in the middle. The Balti Triangle along Ladypool Road and Stratford Road is where the balti genuinely comes from, Stirchley and Kings Heath have turned into independent territory, and Digbeth covers the street food end. A month is long enough to get past the chains around the Bullring, which is rather the point.
A day off in the city
The things worth an afternoon sit close together. The Library of Birmingham has a rooftop garden most people walk straight past, the Ikon Gallery is at Brindleyplace, and the Jewellery Quarter still has working workshops alongside the museum explaining them. Past that, a Chiltern train out of Snow Hill or a walk south along the towpath does more for a Sunday than the shops will.
The centre is always half built
Something to accept rather than fight: Birmingham rebuilds itself continuously, and over a month a hoarding will go up across a route you had started using. Paradise, Smithfield and the HS2 works have all moved pavements around in recent years. It is properly noisy near the active sites during the working day, which is the one thing a photograph taken from indoors will never tell you.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Birmingham stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
For a month or more, message reservations rather than booking night by night online. Monthly rates are not the nightly rate multiplied out, and they are not always shown on the booking calendar. Tell us the dates and how many of you and we will quote the month properly.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Birmingham questions
What people ask about staying in Birmingham.
Which part of Birmingham should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the Jewellery Quarter, the city core, Digbeth and Edgbaston. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close.
Can I park in Birmingham?
The Clean Air Zone covers the city centre inside the A4540 ring road and charges older vehicles daily, which is a real cost if you are driving in every day. Check your vehicle before you book. Outside the zone it is ordinary city parking, tight in the residential streets and paid in the centre.
How easy is it to get around Birmingham without a car?
New Street puts London inside an hour and twenty, the NEC and the airport are ten minutes on the train, and the tram runs through the centre.
What is there to do in Birmingham on a day off?
The canals, the Jewellery Quarter, Digbeth and the Bullring are all inside a walk of the core, and the Lickey Hills, Cannock Chase and Stratford are inside an hour. Birmingham rewards a bit of exploring on a long stay, because almost none of the good parts are the parts on a postcard.
Questions we get asked
What people ask before taking a month.
What does a 1 month rental in Birmingham actually cost?
Less per night than the same flat taken for a weekend, and it varies by property, by size and by time of year. If you searched for a cheap 1 month rental Birmingham, the honest answer is that a monthly figure is worth asking for rather than guessing, because the price on the booking calendar is a nightly rate and a month is priced differently. Message us with your dates and you will get a single number with everything in it.
Is there a deposit, referencing or a credit check?
No. This is a booking, not a tenancy, so there is no referencing, no guarantor and no protected deposit scheme to get your money back out of at the end. Some properties hold a small damage deposit that is released after checkout, and we will say so before you book rather than after.
Are bills and council tax included?
Yes, all of them. Gas, electricity, water, council tax and wifi are in the price. There is nothing to set up in your name and nothing to close down when you leave, which is most of the reason people choose this over a short tenancy.
Can I take it for three or six months?
Yes. A 3 month rental Birmingham booking and a 6 month rental Birmingham booking are both normal here, and the rate improves again past the first month. Tell us the full length at the start rather than extending a month at a time and you will get a better price and keep the same flat.
Check availability
Tell us the month you need.
Check what is available on the booking site, or message reservations with your dates and we will come back with a monthly price that includes everything.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213