For medical students, residents & fellows
Moving to Boston for Medical School, Residency or Fellowship?
Choose Boston helps medical students and healthcare professionals find legitimate housing, understand Boston neighborhoods and commutes, tour apartments remotely and navigate the rental process with confidence.
- Licensed Massachusetts brokerage
- Rentals across Greater Boston
- Virtual tours for out-of-town moves
How we help
Housing help built around a training schedule.
Apartment search assistance
Tell us your budget, move-in date and must-haves. We shortlist apartments that fit and line up showings.
Neighborhood and hospital commute guidance
Where people at your hospital actually live, and what the walk, T or drive looks like at 6 a.m.
See the commute guideVirtual apartment tours
Live video walk-throughs for people relocating from outside Boston, with an agent in the room answering questions.
Listing and landlord verification
We confirm the unit exists, the landlord or manager is real, and the terms match before you pay anything.
How we prevent scamsApplications, leases, deposits and broker fees
What to send, what to sign, what you can be asked to pay up front, and who pays the broker fee.
Available rentals throughout Greater Boston
Live MLS rentals across Greater Boston, from Longwood studios to Cambridge two-bedrooms.
Browse rentalsRental safety
Avoid Boston Rental Scams
Moving from another city makes it difficult to know whether an apartment, landlord or agent is legitimate. Choose Boston can help verify listings and provide a local point of contact before someone sends deposits or signs a lease.
Common warning signs
- You're asked to wire money, pay by gift card or use a payment app before seeing the unit.
- The landlord is “out of the country” and will mail you the keys.
- Rent is far below similar apartments in the same neighborhood.
- Nobody can show you the inside, in person or on live video.
- You're pushed to decide today, before a lease exists.
In Massachusetts, a landlord can collect at most first month’s rent, last month’s rent, a security deposit no larger than one month’s rent, and the cost of a new lock before you move in.
Relocating from out of town
Finding an apartment before you get to Boston
We can help clients tour apartments virtually, understand neighborhoods and commute times, verify properties and coordinate the rental process remotely so they don’t have to navigate everything on their own.
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Tell us your program and dates
Your hospital or school, move-in date, budget and who you're living with.
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Tour on video
An agent walks each shortlisted apartment live, opening closets and checking water pressure.
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We verify it
Ownership, the landlord or manager, and the lease terms, before any money moves.
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Apply, sign and get your keys
Applications and leases signed online; we coordinate the key handoff for move-in day.
Neighborhoods & commutes
Live close to where you train.
Boston’s teaching hospitals cluster in four areas. These are the neighborhoods people at each one tend to choose.
Longwood Medical Area
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Children's, Dana-Farber
Popular nearby
Green Line E · Longwood Medical Area
Mass General
Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass Eye and Ear
Popular nearby
Red Line · Charles/MGH
Boston Medical Center
BMC, BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Popular nearby
Silver Line SL4/SL5 · Newton Street
Tufts Medical Center
Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine
Popular nearby
Orange Line · Tufts Medical Center
Browse rentals across Greater Boston
Live rental listings from MLS PIN, with the same map and filters as our search page.
About Choose Boston
Local expertise you can trust
Choose Boston is an established Massachusetts real estate brokerage helping renters, buyers and property owners throughout Greater Boston. Alan Nguyen, Partner at Choose Boston, has extensive experience throughout the Boston market and was recognized by Boston Magazine as a 2026 Top Real Estate Producer.
Get started
Moving to Boston? Let us help make housing the easy part.
Tell us about your program and your move. A Choose Boston agent will get back to you within one business day.
Discounted brokerage fees
For participating medical students, residents and fellows.
For schools and programs
Are you a school, residency program or hospital interested in providing this resource to your incoming students or trainees?
Contact us about partnering with Choose Boston.
Photos: Harvard Medical School by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Massachusetts General Hospital by Whoisjohngalt, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped. Other medical photos from Unsplash.
