Homes for rent in Göd

Göd is a town of about twenty thousand people on the left bank of the Danube, north of Dunakeszi and about twenty-five kilometres from the centre. It grew out of two villages, Alsógöd and Felsőgöd, which were merged in 1970 and still behave like two places with two stations, two centres and two sets of shops. Between the river and the railway the streets are a grid of detached houses with gardens, tall trees and a few old summer villas from the time when this was a holiday colony for Budapest families.

It is the most village-like of the three Vác-line towns near the city. There is a thermal bath by the river, a long riverside walk with a cycle path, the Huzella arboretum, two primary schools and a secondary school, a health centre and a weekly market. The battery plant on the northern edge at Bócsa has been the local argument for years and brings lorry traffic to route 2; the residential streets by the river do not notice it. Rents are a little above Dunakeszi for houses, because that is what people come here for.

Göd is a house town with a few flats. The typical home is a detached family house from the 1960s to the 1990s on a 600 to 1000 square metre plot, often extended, with gas heating and a garage or carport, on the grid of streets between route 2 and the river. Older summer villas and cottages near the water are charming and sometimes poorly insulated. The 2000s to 2020s added terraced houses and small low-rise blocks with two and three-room flats near Göd and Felsőgöd stations and along the Dunakeszi road, which is where most of the flats to rent are; a one-room flat is rare and usually a converted annexe or an upper floor of a house.

Check the heating and insulation in anything built before 1990, whether the sewer is connected on the outer streets, and how the plot drains: the streets closest to the Danube are low-lying and a few flooded in 2013. On the new small blocks ask whether the parking space and the garden section are included in the rent.