A room for rent in the 19th usually belongs to a larger scheme of life: the district inherited ample flats — rehabilitated towers and blocks of the place des Fêtes, workshop buildings, seventies residences — where the four-or-five flatshare is the norm rather than the exception. Lines 5 and 7 frame the territory, the 7bis and the 11 serve the heights, the tram runs the Maréchaux and the RER E puts Rosa-Parks ten minutes from Saint-Lazare.
What budget in the kingdom of the divided rent?
About the gentlest in Paris: the 19th is the flagship of the accessible band of our district-by-district price guide — €500 to €700 per room across most of the territory — and dividing by four or five widens the gap further on the charges. Rent control locks the ceilings address by address; on large surfaces, the per-square-metre reference makes excesses easy to spot.
Laumière, place des Fêtes or La Villette: where to moor your crew?
Laumière-Ourcq first, the hinge between the two parks: markets, a quiet avenue, and the Buttes-Chaumont lawns as a Sunday garden. Then the place des Fêtes, discreet capital of the big flatshare: its rehabilitated towers hide luminous five-room flats that four flatmates afford for the price of a studio in the centre. Finally the Villette plateau, to live on an open-air campus — that is where the Cité des sciences, inaugurated on 13 March 1986 as Halley's comet passed, inside the former slaughterhouses, anchors Europe's largest science museum, surrounded by the conservatoire and the architecture school.
How do you make a four-or-five flatshare work?
By checking three numbers before the charm: the count of bathrooms — one for two is the comfort threshold —, the surface of the shared spaces, and the lease type, individual or joint, which changes everything when someone leaves. Ask about the cleaning rota without embarrassment: a big household with its answer ready is a household that works. And follow the stream of rooms for rent in flatshares with the flatmate-count filter on: in the 19th, the good room usually frees up inside a crew already running smoothly.
Frequently asked questions
How cheap can a room for rent get in Paris 19?
Among the lowest in the capital: in Paris 19, a room for rent in a flatshare commonly settles between €500 and €700 all charges included, far under the LocService average of €744 — and the big households of four or five shrink each person's share further.
A flatshare of four or five: which traps to avoid?
Three classics: a single bathroom for everyone, a joint lease signed without measuring its reach, and no written rules for the shared spaces. All three can be checked in one visit and two questions — the durable crews settled them long ago.
Does the place des Fêtes live up to its contrasted reputation?
It exceeds it: behind the tower façades, through-flats, renovated and bright, a market three times a week and the metro at the door. Those who visit discover one of the best space-for-price ratios in Paris — those who judge on photos miss it entirely.
Which campuses and schools sit within reach of the 19th?
More than you would guess: the national conservatoire and the architecture school at La Villette, the Condorcet campus one stop from the porte de la Chapelle, and the eastern faculties along line 5. Many of the sector's big flatshares actually form around a shared student timetable.
