The best way to find 5 bedroom house rentals near me is to search two or three listing sites at once, because no single site shows every home. Zillow has the widest inventory. Redfin is strongest in Boston. Realtor.com handles wide search radiuses around Taunton. Trulia suits single-family hunters in suburbs like Dedham and Newton. If you need five bedrooms for a short group stay instead of a lease, The Sanctuary at Sacred Mesa in Sedona, Arizona, is the pick.
Five-bedroom houses are rare. A search often returns a handful of listings, and many of them are duplexes or apartment units labeled as houses. Rents swing from about $2,400 to more than $10,000 a month across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and a low price often means small rooms.
This guide covers seven places to search, what each one does well, and where it trips you up. It ends with a price table for Boston, Providence and Taunton, so you know what is fair before you call a landlord. We host large groups at The Sanctuary at Sacred Mesa, so we know what to check in a big house before you commit.
1. The Sanctuary at Sacred Mesa
The Sanctuary at Sacred Mesa is the right pick when you need a five-bedroom house for a few nights or a week, not a 12-month lease. It is a luxury vacation rental just outside Sedona, Arizona. It is the one item here that is not a local lease listing, so it answers your search only if you are planning a trip.
A five-bedroom house is a different product when you rent it for a week instead of a year.
What you get
The Sanctuary is a 10,000-plus square foot estate on an elevated, private parcel. Nothing blocks the view of the red rocks.
- Five bedrooms plus a dedicated media room
- Infinity pool facing the desert and red rock landscape
- Large acreage for seclusion and quiet
- Direct booking through the website
Who it suits
Groups that want to stay under one roof suit it best. Think family reunions, multi-generational gatherings, milestone celebrations and friends or colleagues reconnecting.
Couples who want a scenic, private getaway also book it. The estate is built for privacy and tranquility, not for the shared walls and hallways of a hotel.
What to watch for
This is a vacation rental in Arizona, so it will not replace a lease in Massachusetts or Rhode Island. Treat it as a trip destination, not a housing solution.
Where you book matters too. Booking directly on the website instead of through Airbnb or similar platforms saves guests money, and you deal with the host from the first message.
2. Zillow
Zillow is the best starting point for most renters because it carries the most five-bedroom listings and the most filters. Open the rentals page for your town, set beds to 5, and work down the list. For a 5 bedroom house rentals near me search, it is the first tab to open.
Start with the biggest inventory, then use the other sites to fill the gaps.
What you get
Zillow builds separate pages for each town and category. Providence has pages for pet-friendly, by-owner, furnished, luxury and with-pool houses. Recent Providence five-bedroom listings ran from $3,100 to $4,500 a month, and some carried an "Apply instantly" tag.
- Category pages for pet-friendly, by-owner and furnished homes
- Listing age shown on each card, such as "49 days ago"
- A rent affordability calculator
- Square footage and bath counts on the card
Who it suits
Renters who want one broad search suit Zillow. It works whether you are checking Providence, Cranston, Pawtucket or Warwick, since each town gets its own page.
It also helps if you want to rent from an owner. The by-owner page is worth a look when you want to avoid an agency’s fees.
What to watch for
Zillow notes that listing order may reflect relevance, quality and paid promotion. The top result is not automatically the best deal, so sort by price and by newest too.
Check the age tag. A house sitting for 66 days is either overpriced or already gone. Also compare square footage, because five bedrooms in 1,500 square feet means small rooms.
3. Realtor.com
Realtor.com is the best pick for Taunton and the South Coast because its searches pull from a 20-mile radius. A Taunton search for five-bedroom rentals recently returned 19 listings spread across Providence, New Bedford, Swansea, Cumberland and Brockton. That reach makes it useful for 5 bedroom house rentals near me when your town has almost nothing.
In a thin market, a wider radius finds more five-bedroom houses than a tighter filter.
What you get
Each card names the listing brokerage, flags tour availability and shows pet policy tags like "PetsOK" and "CatsOK". You can sort by best match, recently added, highest price or lowest price.
- Property type tags: house, apartment or other
- Tour and virtual tour badges
- Median rent for the town, about $2,200 in Taunton
- Average days on market, about 37 in Taunton
Who it suits
Renters in the Taunton area who will commute 20 miles for the right house will get the most from it. The wider net turns a handful of local results into a real comparison.
Pet owners also benefit. The pet policy tags on the card save you a phone call, and the "New" badge tells you which listings to call the same day.
What to watch for
Results labeled "apartment" often have five bedrooms in about 1,140 square feet. That is roughly 230 square feet per bedroom, so the cheapest listing is often the most cramped.
Pending listings also appear in the results. One Swansea house showed as pending at $3,750, so confirm availability before you plan a tour.
4. Redfin
Redfin is the best choice for Boston because its five-bedroom page lists 51 rentals and shows details Boston renters care about, including transit, walkability, laundry and air conditioning. It is the strongest answer to the 5 bedroom house rentals near me search if you are inside Route 128.
In Boston, the neighborhood and the move-in date matter as much as the rent.
What you get
Cards carry walkability and transit labels plus amenity tags like laundry in unit, A/C and dishwasher. Many show a listing agent phone number. Rents on the first page ran from about $4,000 in Mission Hill to $10,500 in Brighton.
- Walkability and transit notes on each card
- Amenity tags: in-unit laundry, A/C, dishwasher
- Pet notes, such as "Pets welcome" or "Cats welcome"
- An average rent page for Boston
Who it suits
Students and young professionals sharing a place do well here. Allston, Brighton and Mission Hill hold clusters of five-bedroom units near Boston College and Northeastern. A $5,000 unit split five ways is $1,000 each.
Families should look at Roslindale and Dorchester. A three-story single-family in Roslindale with 3.5 baths and about 3,200 square feet recently listed at $5,500.
What to watch for
Most "houses" here are apartment units, duplexes or triple-decker floors. Descriptions can contradict the headline. One listing advertised five bedrooms and described a six-bedroom home, and another described two huge bedrooms and one small room.
Ask these questions before you tour:
- Who pays the broker fee? Some listings say the landlord does, others list a fee of thousands.
- Are heat and utilities included?
- Is the move-in date September 1? Many are, so start early.
5. Homes.com
Homes.com works best as a price check. Its Providence rental page showed 12 homes for rent, with a median rent of $2,195 a month and townhouses at $2,100. Use it to sanity-check a five-bedroom quote before you negotiate.
A median rent tells you the market, not the price of a five-bedroom house.
What you get
Homes.com has a dedicated five-bedroom page for Providence. It pairs the listings with summary rent figures for the city and for property types.
- A five-bedroom filtered page by city
- Median rent for the whole city
- Median rent by property type, such as townhouses
Who it suits
Renters who want a benchmark before they call a landlord should start here. If a five-bedroom house is quoted at $3,500 and the city median is $2,195, you know you are paying about 1.6 times the median. That is normal for five bedrooms.
It also helps you compare property types. A townhouse at $2,100 median gives you a sense of what you give up for a detached house.
What to watch for
The median covers every unit size, from studios up, so it will understate what a five-bedroom costs. On Zillow, recent Providence five-bedroom homes ran about 1.4 to 2 times that median.
Inventory is also small. Twelve homes is a thin sample, so cross-check any number you plan to rely on with another site.
6. Trulia
Trulia is the best choice when you want a single-family home and nothing else. Its search pages let you set five beds and a single-family type together, which cuts out apartment units labeled as houses. That makes it a sharp tool for 5 bedroom house rentals near me in the suburbs.
Filter by home type first, and half the noise in a five-bedroom search disappears.
What you get
A search around Dedham, Massachusetts, returned one result, a $12,000 a month rental at 103 Levbert Rd in Newton. It has 6.5 baths and 6,343 square feet, and Trulia shows the total monthly price on the card.
- Beds and single-family home type set in the search
- Total monthly price displayed on the card
- Baths and square footage on the card
Who it suits
Families who want a true house with a yard, driveway or garage should start here. Suburbs like Dedham and Newton are where five-bedroom single-family rentals tend to appear.
It also suits renters at the top of the market. That Newton listing works out to about $1.89 per square foot per month, which is a useful reference if you are asking what it costs to rent a mansion.
What to watch for
Results can be extremely thin. One home in a search is normal, so widen the radius or search four bedrooms plus a den.
Trulia’s listings often overlap with Zillow’s. Seeing a house on both sites does not mean there are two houses.
7. Apartments.com
Apartments.com is the best pick for houses in smaller towns like Taunton, where it surfaces amenity detail. Its Taunton houses page lists five single-family homes and notes 25 more rentals nearby. It is a good last stop in a 5 bedroom house rentals near me search.
Smaller towns reward a house-only search, because apartments crowd out everything else.
What you get
The Taunton houses page focuses on single-family rentals. Amenities such as private pools and attached garages show up in the results.
- A house-only page for each town
- Amenity features in the listing results
- Suggested nearby rentals when local inventory runs short
Who it suits
Renters who want a garage, a pool or a private yard should check it. It also suits families in smaller Massachusetts and Rhode Island towns, where large houses rent out quietly and quickly.
What to watch for
The page covers all bedroom counts. Five homes on the page does not mean five five-bedroom homes, so apply the bedroom filter right away.
Income-restricted sites show how rare five bedrooms are. A Taunton search on AffordableHousing.com returned a single five-bedroom property. If your budget is tight, expect to widen the radius or share the rent.
What 5 bedroom house rentals cost in MA and RI
Expect roughly $2,400 to $4,500 a month in Providence and the Taunton area, and $4,000 to $10,500 in Boston. Those ranges come from recent listings on the sites above. They move with the season, the neighborhood and the listing itself, so treat them as a starting point for your 5 bedroom house rentals near me budget.
Five bedrooms often work out to $700 to $1,000 per bedroom, so how many people split the rent decides what you can afford.
Typical rents by market
The table puts recent figures side by side. The medians for all unit sizes ($2,200 in Taunton, $2,195 in Providence) sit well below these numbers, because five-bedroom homes are the top of each market.
| Market | Rent range seen | What drives it |
|---|---|---|
| Providence, RI | $2,650 to $4,500 | Houses and multi-unit homes, 1,100 to 2,700 sq ft |
| Taunton area (New Bedford, Swansea, Cumberland, Brockton) | $2,400 to $3,750 | Mix of houses and apartment units |
| Boston, MA | $4,000 to $10,500 | Duplex and triplex units, student demand near campuses |
| Newton, MA | $12,000 | 6,343 sq ft single-family home with 6.5 baths |
How to find the cheapest listings
The cheapest places to look are outside the Boston core. Taunton, Cumberland and parts of Providence beat Boston by $1,000 or more a month.
Sort by lowest price, then check square footage. A $2,400 five-bedroom in 1,140 square feet is a tradeoff, not a bargain. Also ask about pet fees. One Allston listing added $100 a month for pets.
Move-in costs and search habits
Rent is only part of the cost. Massachusetts landlords can collect first month, last month, a security deposit and a lock fee at move-in. Add a broker fee if the agent works for you, and ask early who pays it.
Search smarter with these habits:
- Allow location access and set a radius of about 20 miles.
- Save the search and turn on alerts, so you see new listings first.
- Check the listing age and confirm availability before you tour.
- Search two sites, because the same house often appears on both.
- Get fees and utilities in writing before you pay a deposit.
Where to start your search
Start with Zillow for breadth, add Redfin for Boston or Realtor.com for Taunton, and use Trulia when you want a true single-family home. Use Homes.com to sanity-check prices, and watch square footage, listing age and fees on every card. Five-bedroom houses are scarce, so be ready to act when a good one appears.
If what you really need is five bedrooms for a reunion, a celebration or a getaway with friends, skip the lease and look at vacation rentals for large groups. You can book The Sanctuary at Sacred Mesa directly and enjoy over 10,000 square feet of private space with red rock views near Sedona.