A lot has been written about short-term rental in Copenhagen over the past six months. Much of it is wrong, and some of it became wrong after it was written. Here is the status as it stands at the end of July 2026, with sources you can check yourself.
No, the cap was not raised. On 13 May 2026 Liberal Alliance tabled a motion in the City Council to use section 6 of sommerhusloven and raise the cap from 70 to 100 nights a year when rental goes through an intermediary. It was heard on 21 May and rejected 50 votes to 3. The same motion had a second point asking the tax minister to double the tax-free allowance from 35,100 kr to 70,200 kr. That point never came to a vote. The cap in Copenhagen is therefore still 70 nights.
The three figures people mix up: without a reporting platform the cap is 30 nights a year, through an intermediary that reports automatically it is 70 nights, and a municipality can raise it to 100 nights. Twenty have, including Odense, Roskilde and Bornholm. Copenhagen and Frederiksberg have not.
The 100,000 kr fines are not current law. In January 2026 a political agreement was reached on significantly higher fines, with indicative rates from around 5,000 kr for small overruns up to 100,000 kr at 180 days or more, plus 50,000 kr a year for so-called shadow hotels. The agreement was never turned into legislation before the general election of 24 March 2026, as Dansk Erhverv reported on 2 July 2026. The Danish Planning and Rural Districts Agency published an evaluation in October 2025: between 2019 and May 2025 thirteen cases about renting out one's own year-round home were closed, with zero enforcement notices, zero fines and zero police reports.
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