Homes for rent in Fót

Fót is a town of about twenty thousand people east of Dunakeszi and north-east of district XV, inland from the Danube. It is best known for the Károlyi castle and its park, and for the Roman Catholic church designed by Miklós Ybl in the 1850s, which stands on the hill above the old village. Around that historic core the town has grown in the same way as its neighbours: family houses on the old streets, new estates at Fótliget and along the road to Dunakeszi, and a retail zone where route 2 and the M2 meet the Dunakeszi border.

Unlike Dunakeszi and Göd, Fót does not sit on the Vác railway. The line 71 station is on the western edge, a good walk from the centre, so most people here drive or take the bus. That keeps rents a step below the river towns and gives Fót a more village-like rhythm: a market square, a handful of small shops, the children's home in the castle grounds, the Somlyó hill above the town, and the annual fair.

Fót is a house town. Most of the stock is detached family houses from the 1960s to the 1990s on the old streets around the centre, in Kisalag and on the slopes below the church, many with big gardens and outbuildings, and a lot have been renovated or extended. The 2000s and 2010s brought the Fótliget and Királydomb estates: terraced and semi-detached houses and small blocks with two to four-room homes, gas heating and a parking space, mostly rented by families. Flats are few: a couple of 1970s blocks near the centre, some new small blocks at Fótliget, and converted upper floors of older houses.

In the older houses check the roof, the insulation, the heating (gas convectors are common) and whether the water and sewer are connected on the outer streets. On the new estates ask about traffic noise from the M2 and route 2, which run close to Fótliget, and about the commute time to the nearest bus stop.