Guides to Renting and Letting a Home in Denmark

How to rent safely in Denmark: view the home in person, check the owner in the land registry, get a written lease, and pay last – to a Danish bank account.

See step by step how to report a suspicious listing or user on LejLet.nu, which reasons you can choose from, and what happens after you've submitted it.

What the "Verified landlord" badge means, and what LejLet.nu checks on addresses, deposits and messages. An honest rundown – including what we don't check.

Learn the 7 warning signs of a rental scam in Denmark, and what to do today if you've already paid: call your bank, keep the evidence and report it to police.

How to find a rental home in Denmark fast: search several places at once, set up search agents, write a first message that gets a reply, have your papers ready.

Checklist for your new rental: the lease, deposit, insurance, move-in inspection, a defects list within 14 days, and registering your move within 5 days.

Landlords with several apartments must hold a move-in inspection and give you a report. The rules, deadlines, and why the inspection matters for your deposit.

Go through Typeformular A section by section – rent, deposit, notice, maintenance and section 11 – plus the red flags to catch before you sign a Danish lease.

Deposit, prepaid rent, first month's rent and on-account payments: what you pay when moving in, the limits set by law, and a worked example in Danish kroner.

Register your move within 5 days. How to do it on borger.dk, the earliest you can report it, the free choice of doctor, and who you must notify yourself.

Faults in your new rental? You have 2 weeks from the tenancy's start to report defects – in writing. The deadline, a checklist, your options and a template.

New to Denmark? How to rent a home before you have a CPR number, the authorised English lease, what you can be asked to pay, and how to spot rental scams.

A deposit may be at most 3 months' rent, excluding on-account payments. The rule, how it differs from prepaid rent, what it covers, and what if it's too high.

When must a landlord repay your deposit? Deadlines for inspection and claims, what can be deducted, a worked example, and what to do if the money never comes.

A deposit is security; prepaid rent is rent paid in advance. The caps, why prepaid rent may never exceed your notice period, and how to set it off at the end.

Free rent, cost-based rent or the value of the tenancy: how your rent may rise under each of Denmark's three rule sets, and why the 6-week deadline matters.

Heating and water from your landlord are usually paid a conto with a yearly statement, while electricity is often your own contract. See rules and deadlines.

Can you get Danish housing benefit for a rented home, a room or a shared flat? The 2026 rules: own kitchen, income, assets, maximum amounts and when to apply.

When must your heating statement arrive, when is it invalid, and how do you object? The 4-month and 6-week deadlines, and your right to pay in instalments.

How the move-out inspection works: the deadlines for the inspection, report and claims, a checklist for cleaning and meters, and what to do if you disagree.

As a tenant you have 3 months' notice to the first working day of a month. See the rule with date examples, the 1-month rule for rooms and your obligations.

You don't pay for ordinary wear and tear – but with interior maintenance you'll usually have to paint and treat floors at move-out. The rules, with examples.

Is your landlord withholding your deposit? Check the deadlines were met, object in writing, and complain to the rent tribunal for 367 kr. (2026). Step by step.

No – it's illegal to take money for passing on your tenancy. See the lawful alternatives: swapping, subletting and succession on death or separation.

Who paints, repairs appliances and replaces locks? The legal default, what your lease can change, the maintenance account of 54 kr./m², and handling faults.

Your key rights as a tenant in Denmark – termination, deposit, defects, the rent tribunal and subletting – plus the 2-week, 6-week and 1-year deadlines.

Huslejenævnet, the local rent tribunal, settles most Danish tenant-landlord disputes. What it can and can't decide, the 2026 fees, processing times and appeals.

Is your rent too high? Find out which Danish rent rules apply to your home, the 1-year deadline to meet, and what a rent tribunal case costs in 2026.

As a rule no – but a room in the landlord's home, a two-family house and the landlord's own owned or co-op flat have special rules. Grounds, notice, deadlines.

You may sublet up to half your home, and the whole home for up to 2 years during a temporary absence. See the conditions, landlord refusals and the tax rules.

Your lease and the house rules decide whether you may keep pets. Danish rent law sets out what happens if a pet is a nuisance or kept in breach of the lease.

A fixed-term lease needs a reason on the landlord's side and can't be ended early unless agreed. See the rules on expiry, extensions and lock-in periods.

Your landlord may only enter your flat when circumstances require it, and must give 6 weeks' or 3 months' notice of works. Rules on keys and viewings.

Practical advice for landlords on the title, photos, description, price and energy label that make your rental listing stand out and get taken seriously.

The energy label must appear in a rental listing whenever the building must be energy-labelled – whatever the apartment's size. Rules, exemptions and scale.

A step-by-step guide to renting out your home for the first time: permission, rent, energy label, listing, lease, deposit and tax – in the order you need them.

Create a free rental listing on LejLet.nu with no payment card and no subscription. It's free for landlords and tenants – see what you get and how long it runs.

Renting out a room in your home has special rules: 1 month's notice, at most 1 month's prepaid rent, and subletting at most half the rooms if you rent.

Renting out your home? Choose between the section 15 Q allowance, section 15 P or accounts. See the whole-home rules, the 12-month rule and the 2026 figures.

Rental income allowance 2026: 13,800 kr. privately, 35,100 kr. via a reporting platform, plus section 15 P for owners and tenants – with worked examples.

Renting out a room? You can deduct 13,800 kr. (2026) – or ⅔ of your own rent if you rent the home yourself. See the rules for rooms, rental platforms and VAT.

Typeformular A9 may no longer be used. Today it's Typeformular A, 10th edition – also in English. See where to get it and what you must fill in correctly.

As a landlord, you can require a deposit of at most 3 months' rent. The cap on prepaid rent, adjustments, safekeeping, and how to settle it at move-out.

How to give a tenant notice: the grounds the Danish Rent Act allows, the notice period for each, the formal rules, and termination with vs without notice.

Subletting an andelsbolig is decided by your cooperative's bylaws. See ABF's rules on a 2-year maximum and board approval – and what applies to rent and tax.

As a rule you may rent out your ejerlejlighed, but the owners' association and the cost-based rent rules can set limits. See what to check before you advertise.

A sommerhus is legally different from a year-round home: the Rent Act doesn't cover holiday lets, but the winter rule, the 1-year limit and tax do apply.

Going abroad or working elsewhere for a while? How to rent out your home temporarily in Denmark: fixed-term leases, termination, ejerlejlighed rules and tax.

How to assess a tenant before you sign: income, a reference, their own RKI credit report and red flags – and what you as a landlord aren't allowed to weigh.

Housing portals, Facebook groups, your network, a rental agency or LejLet.nu: an honest overview of what each channel costs – and who ends up paying for it.

The checklist before you rent out: legal rent, caps on deposit and prepaid rent, Typeformular A, the energy label, tax and tenant screening – all in one place.

When your tenant moves out: the 2-week deadline for claims, the move-out inspection rules, what you can require refurbished, and how to settle the deposit.

When your tenant doesn't pay: deadlines for a påkrav (payment demand), the 335 kr. fee (2026), the paper-post rule, termination and the bailiff's court.