How to Rent Out Your Home – Step by Step

Last updated October 10, 2026

Short answer: As a rule you may rent out your home, but first check whether your owners' association, housing cooperative or own landlord has a say, and whether the rent is regulated. Show the energy label in the listing, use Typeformular A as the lease, and keep the deposit and prepaid rent to at most 3 months' rent each.

You've moved in with your partner, but you're not ready to sell your flat. It shouldn't sit empty, so you want to rent it out – and suddenly you're a landlord for the first time. Where do you even start? Here are the practical steps, from the first thought to the moment the keys change hands.

Are you allowed to rent out – and do you want the home back?

Who you need to ask depends on how you live yourself:

Ejerlejlighed (condominium apartment): As a general rule, the owners' association (ejerforening) can't ban ordinary, longer-term letting, but its bylaws can set requirements. See Renting Out an Ejerlejlighed.
Andelsbolig (housing cooperative unit): Subletting requires the board's permission and is typically only possible during a temporary absence.
Rented home: Then it's a sublet. You may sublet the whole home for at most 2 years during a temporary absence, and your landlord can object, among other things if the building has fewer than 13 flats (section 158 of the Danish Rent Act, lejeloven).

If you'll live in the home again, the lease decides whether you get it back. A fixed-term lease requires a specific reason in your own circumstances – see Rent Out Your Home Temporarily – and Get It Back.

What can you charge in rent?

Start by comparing homes similar to your own – same neighbourhood, roughly the same size and condition. Set the rent too high, and the home sits empty for months; set it too low, and you lose money every month.

But the rent isn't always yours to set. If the building was taken into use after 31 December 1991, the rent can as a general rule be agreed freely (lejeloven section 54). In older buildings in regulated municipalities – most of them – the rent may be bound by the rules on cost-based rent (omkostningsbestemt leje), and the tenant can have an excessive rent reduced. If you're unsure, ask the municipality before you set the price.

What goes in the listing?

Have the precise address (floor and door), the home's size in square metres and the number of rooms ready – plus the energy label. When you advertise a home for rent, including online, the energy label from a valid energy labelling must appear in the ad, and the tenant must receive the energy labelling before the lease is signed. The requirement doesn't depend on the flat's size, because the label belongs to the building; exemptions include detached buildings under 60 m² and holiday homes. If you live in an ejerlejlighed, it's the owners' association that must arrange the energy labelling.

Take photos in daylight, tidy up first, and show every room – including the kitchen and bathroom. If you have a floor plan, it's often the first thing a serious tenant looks for.

Create the listing

When you create a listing on LejLet.nu, you choose the address from Denmark's official address register in the listing form. You can upload up to 12 photos plus a floor plan, and creating the listing is free – no payment card and no subscription. You log in with a one-time code or a login link sent to your email, so there's no password to remember.

LejLet.nu's listing wizard currently requires the energy label when the home is 60 m² or larger, but the law applies regardless of size – so always fill in the field. When the listing goes live, tenants with a matching saved search get an email straight away. The listing stays up for 30 days and can be renewed for free with "Renew".

How to choose a tenant

Inquiries come in through LejLet.nu's built-in messaging, so all contact is in one place. Book a viewing, ask when the person needs to move, and trust your instincts – a tenant who's hard to get a clear answer from now rarely gets easier later. As a private landlord you can't look another person up in RKI (the Danish register of bad payers) yourself, but you can ask the applicant to fetch their own record free of charge with MitID on dininfo.dk and show you the printout.

Lease, deposit and prepaid rent

Use Typeformular A, 10th edition – the authorised standard lease for private rental homes, which also exists in an authorised English version. Fill it in carefully, and pay particular attention to section 11 on special terms: that's where any fixed term and the reason for it must be written.

The deposit may be at most 3 months' rent. Prepaid rent may be at most 3 months' rent, and at the same time no more than the rent due in the tenant's notice period (lejeloven section 59). LejLet.nu's listing wizard rejects a deposit or prepaid rent that on its own exceeds 3 months' rent, but it doesn't know the notice period in your lease – that limit is yours to keep.

Don't forget tax

The rental income must go on your tax return, and the rules depend mainly on whether you let the whole home for less or more than 12 months. If you let your owner-occupied home for at least 12 months, it's business letting, with accounts and personal income. Update your preliminary income assessment as soon as the lease is in place – see Tax on Renting Out Your Home.