Airbnb in Frederiksberg: what you may do, what it pays, and who is watching

Updated 8 September 2026. Written by Nico Rossetti, Arnor.

Frederiksberg is a city within the city. Its own municipality, its own town hall, its own rules for parking and building permits. So it is a fair question whether anything special applies when you want to rent out your apartment on Airbnb.

The short answer: the caps are the same as everywhere in Denmark, but enforcement is handled by Frederiksberg Kommune with its own routines and contact points. And your housing association often matters more than either.

The interest is certainly there. The local paper FrederiksbergLIV counted around 9,100 Airbnb listings with a Frederiksberg address in the autumn of 2025, roughly one in six homes in the municipality. Renting out is not unusual here. It is common, and it can be done both legally and sensibly.

Here is what applies in 2026.

The short answer

• You may rent out your primary home to holiday guests for 30 days per year privately or 70 days per year through a platform like Airbnb that reports your income to the Danish Tax Agency. The 70 days apply when all your letting goes through the platform, and the caps do not stack.
• Frederiksberg has not raised the cap to 100 days. The official list of 100 day municipalities is published by the Danish Planning and Rural Affairs Agency, and Frederiksberg is not on it.
• The first 35,100 kr are tax free in 2026 when you rent out through a platform that reports.
• The home must still be used as a year round residence. The residency requirement does not disappear because you rent out.
• If you live in an andelsbolig or owners' association, the bylaws often matter more than the law.

Frederiksberg is its own municipality, and it matters

The 30 and 70 day caps are national rules. But the residency requirement, the duty to use the home for year round living, is enforced by each municipality. In Frederiksberg it is not Copenhagen's housing patrol that knocks. It is Frederiksberg Kommune itself that handles empty home cases from the town hall at Smallegade 1.

Two things are worth knowing.

Homes without a residency requirement barely exist here. According to figures from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing, cited by FrederiksbergLIV, 99.2 percent of Frederiksberg homes carry the residency requirement. The idea of buying an apartment without bopælspligt and running it purely as an Airbnb is not a model that exists in Frederiksberg in practice. The home must be lived in, and any renting happens alongside your own use.

The six week rule has teeth. The municipality states it plainly: homes may not stand empty, or only partly used, for more than six weeks. It is a punishable offence not to notify the municipality if your home will stand empty longer. And in some cases, after six weeks with no one registered at the address, the municipality can assign the empty home to a person on the housing list. That is the part few people have heard: in the extreme case, a stranger can be assigned to live in your empty apartment.

If a posting abroad, studies or anything else will keep you away for longer, you can apply for permission to leave the home empty, or for an exemption from the residency requirement, through the municipality's "Anmeld tom bolig" page using MitID. A small task that removes a large problem before it appears.

The 70 nights apply in Frederiksberg too

The rules for holiday letting of your own home are national: 30 days privately, 70 days through an intermediary that reports to the tax authorities. A municipality can choose to raise the cap to 100 days. Twenty have done so, including Odense, Roskilde and Glostrup. Neither Frederiksberg nor Copenhagen is on the list, so the number here is 70.

Also note what is coming. On 22 January 2026 the government and a broad majority agreed to tighten control of short term rentals: access to platform data, removal of illegal listings, and guideline fines from 5,000 kr up to 100,000 kr for large overruns. The agreement still needs to become law, so the fines do not apply yet. But the direction is clear, and with platforms reporting income, the number of rented nights becomes visible on its own. Assume the cap will be enforced, and plan accordingly.

We have written a full guide to the residency rules and enforcement if you want the complete picture.

Your association often decides more than the municipality

Frederiksberg is the city of andelsboliger. A large share of its apartments sit in cooperative or owners' associations, and one simple rule applies: the bylaws beat the law.

The law gives you 70 nights, but your association may have adopted three weeks, board approval for every stay, or an outright ban. Many associations have no short term rental rules at all, in which case the legal framework applies. Read the bylaws before you do anything else. It takes ten minutes and decides whether the rest of this guide is even relevant to you.

Our guide to Airbnb in housing associations covers what to look for and what to do when the rules are unclear.

What can a Frederiksberg apartment earn?

Frederiksberg sits at the good end of the market. Guests are often families and business travellers who want green, quiet surroundings with the metro close by: CBS and the Forum venue bring students, researchers and conference guests, the Zoo and Frederiksberg Gardens bring families, and the metro runs directly to both the city centre and the airport.

Realistic 2026 numbers, based on Copenhagen market data and our own operations:

• A nice two room apartment typically achieves 1,300 to 1,600 kr per night across the year, with summer prices above 1,800 kr and winter prices well below.
• Occupancy swings hard with the season: August around 64 percent, February under 30. With a 70 night cap, the art is not to fill the calendar but to sell the right nights. We have a full pricing guide on exactly that.

A worked example. Rent out all 70 nights at an average of 1,400 kr and gross income is 98,000 kr. The first 35,100 kr are tax free in 2026, and only 60 percent of the rest is taxed. It is taxed as capital income whether you own, are an andelshaver or rent with permission to sublet, which puts the bill somewhere around 13,000 to 16,000 kr depending on your finances. Airbnb's fee and cleaning also take their share, so a realistic net for an average two room apartment is typically around 70,000 to 80,000 kr per year. To run the numbers on your own home, use our calculator or read our guide to Airbnb tax.

Away for longer? Think months, not nights

Frederiksberg has an advantage few talk about: the city is full of people who need a furnished home for three to ten months. Visiting researchers and lecturers at CBS, relocated employees, families between two homes.

If you rent out your home on an ordinary lease to someone who will actually live there, it is not holiday letting. It does not count towards the 70 nights, because what matters is the purpose of the stay, not its length. The home is being used for residence, which is exactly what the residency requirement asks for. If you will be away for six or twelve months, mid term rental is often the right answer, combined with short term letting in the periods when you are home.

Checklist before you rent out in Frederiksberg

1. Read your association's bylaws, or ask the board in writing.
2. Track your nights: 70 through the platform, and keep your own record.
3. If the home will stand empty for more than six weeks, apply to the municipality first.
4. Check your home insurance, and read what AirCover actually covers.
5. Calculate the tax in advance: 35,100 kr tax free, then tax on 60 percent.
6. Price by season and events, not one flat rate all year.

Want it all handled?

Arnor is based in Frederiksberg, on H.C. Ørsteds Vej. We handle the listing, pricing, guests, cleaning and the night count for homeowners in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, and we know both the municipality's rules and the reality inside housing associations.

If you are considering renting out, start with a free, no obligation estimate: we will tell you what your home can realistically earn in 2026 and what needs to be in place before the first guest checks in.

Sources: Frederiksberg Kommune (Anmeld tom bolig, frederiksberg.dk), Danish Planning and Rural Affairs Agency (plst.dk, list of 100 day municipalities and the agreement of 22 January 2026), Danish Tax Agency (skat.dk, 2026 allowances), FrederiksbergLIV (September 2025).

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