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Houses for rent in Cleveland bungalow

A bungalow is a compact, one-to-one-and-a-half-story house style built widely across American cities, including Cleveland, from roughly the 1910s through the 1930s. Bungalow-style rental houses in Cleveland are typically 2- or 3-bedroom homes and generally rent from about $750 to $1,300 a month, with the exact style always confirmed on the specific listing.

What is a bungalow, and does Cleveland have them?

A bungalow is a house style — generally a one-story or one-and-a-half-story home with a low-pitched roof, a front porch, and a compact, efficient floor plan — that was built in large numbers across American cities during the early 20th century, roughly the 1910s through the 1930s. Cleveland's housing stock from that era includes plenty of these homes, since the city's population and housing construction both grew heavily during that period.

If you're searching specifically for a bungalow, you're really searching for a house-building era and layout, not a guarantee that appears on every listing. The style, floor plan, and exact age of any individual rental should always be confirmed directly with the leasing team rather than assumed from the word "bungalow" alone.

What renters usually like about a bungalow layout

Bungalows tend to have main living space, a kitchen, and one or more bedrooms on the ground floor, sometimes with an additional bedroom tucked under the roofline upstairs. Many were built with a front porch and a full basement below, which is common practice for houses of that era in Cleveland. Yard size, porch condition, and any upstairs space vary widely from house to house, so it's worth asking about the specific layout on any listing that interests you.

We manage 90-plus rental homes across Greater Cleveland — a mix of single-family houses, duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes, some of which reflect this early-20th-century bungalow style — and every home accepts Housing Choice Vouchers and is HUD-inspection-ready. Book a free showing to see a specific home's layout in person.

Typical rent for a bungalow-style house in Cleveland

Bungalow-style rentals are generally 2- or 3-bedroom homes, and rent lands in a similar range to other older Cleveland houses of comparable size. Here is a general guide, based on our current portfolio (roughly $700–$1,800/mo citywide) alongside Zumper's citywide median asking-rent report dated July 4, 2026.

Where bungalow-era housing shows up in Cleveland

Early-20th-century bungalow-style construction is common across many of Cleveland's older residential neighborhoods on both sides of the Cuyahoga River. Our current inventory is concentrated on the East and Southeast Side — Slavic Village (44105), Collinwood (44110), Glenville (44108), Fairfax/Central (44104), Hough (44103), and Buckeye-Shaker (44120) — with additional homes on the West Side around Cudell/Detroit-Shoreway (44102) and Old Brooklyn (44109). Browse the full range on our Cleveland houses for rent pillar page, or compare against ranch-style homes if a single-story layout without an upper half-floor is more your fit.

Section 8 vouchers and bungalow rental houses

Style aside, every home we manage — bungalow or otherwise — accepts Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and is HUD-inspection-ready. Ohio has no statewide law requiring landlords to accept vouchers, and the City of Cleveland does not currently have its own source-of-income protection ordinance, while a few nearby suburbs (Cleveland Heights and South Euclid among them) do. See our full Section 8 housing guide for what that means for your search.

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