Where Can You Rent Out Your Home? Your Options as a Landlord
Short answer: You can advertise on housing portals, in Facebook groups, through your network, or hand the whole thing to a rental agency. Many portals are free for landlords; the difference lies in who else pays, how much work you have to do yourself and how well the channel protects against scams. LejLet.nu is free for both landlords and tenants.
You've decided to rent out your home – but where do you advertise it, and what's really the difference between your options? Here's an honest overview of the channels available to a Danish landlord today.
Housing Portals: Free for You – but Who Pays?
The big housing portals have been around for a long time and have a large, established user base. On several of them, creating a listing is free for the landlord, but they make money in other ways: some make people looking for a home pay a subscription to be able to message landlords, and some sell add-ons that give your listing more visibility. Prices change, so check each portal's own terms before you choose.
For you as a landlord, that means two things in particular: an add-on is a real cost you need to factor in if you choose one. And when tenants have to pay to contact you, you risk missing some of them.
Facebook Groups and Your Network
Housing groups on Facebook are one of the most used channels in Denmark, especially in the big cities, and posting a home there is both free and fast. The downside is that you have to manage everything manually – messages, follow-up and keeping track of who's already asked – and the post typically drowns in the feed after a couple of days. There's also no control over who messages you. Word of mouth through your network, workplace or current tenants is also a genuine channel, especially if you're not in a hurry.
A Rental Agency
A rental agency effectively takes over the whole process – advertising, viewings, tenant selection and often the ongoing administration of the tenancy. It typically costs a fixed fee or a percentage of the rent, but in return it's the most hands-off solution if you don't have the time or inclination to handle it yourself.
What Do You Get on LejLet.nu?
LejLet.nu is free for both sides – including the tenants who message you. You don't pay to create, publish or renew a listing, and tenants don't pay to search or to message you.
- A precise address. You choose the address from Denmark's official address register via Adressevælgeren.
- Tenants right away. Tenants can set up a search agent that emails them the instant a home matching their criteria is published.
- Contact without your phone number. All contact happens in a built-in messaging feature until you choose to share your number.
- 30 days at a time. A listing is active for 30 days and can be renewed for free with "Renew" for as long as you still need a tenant.
- The "Verified landlord" badge for companies. If you're a company, we automatically check that your CVR number (Danish company registration number) is active in the CVR register and manually approve that you represent the company. If you're a private individual, there's no identity verification.
Read more in Advertise Your Home for Rent – Completely Free.
Which Channel Suits You?
If you're pressed for time, or the home is hard to rent out, an agency or a paid add-on can make sense. If you have time to handle the contact yourself and want to keep the cost at zero, LejLet.nu and Facebook groups are the obvious places to start – and nothing stops you from using several channels at once.
Whatever the channel, the same rules apply: the energy label must appear in the listing whenever the building must be energy-labelled, and if you use a standard form for the lease itself, it must be an authorised one – in practice Typeformular A, 10th edition (section 14 of the Danish Rent Act, lejeloven).