Denmark real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend

• Average price: $6,537 / m²
• Gross rental yield: 4.16%
• 12-month price change (USD): 5.6%
• Net rental yield: 3.03%
• Transaction cost: 1.7%
• Price basis: national average

Residential property in Denmark averages $6,537 per square metre, +5.6% in dollar terms over the last twelve months. That makes it the 36th most expensive of the 264 markets in the set.

What a buyer pays in Denmark

The $6,537 figure is a national average across all residential property types, which flattens a wide spread — the capital typically runs far above it and small towns far below. Buying costs — transfer tax or stamp duty, notary, registration and agency — come to about 1.7% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $11,113 on top of the $653,735 purchase price. That is below the 9.6% median across the set, which shortens the time it takes for a purchase to break even. Of that, the transfer tax alone is 0.7%; the rest is notary, registration and agency fees.

What it earns

A square metre lets for about $22.7 a month. Against a purchase price of $6,537 per square metre that is 4.2% gross, before tax. Both figures come from the same source and the same period, so you can check the arithmetic yourself. It ranks 228th of 311 markets by gross yield. Rental income is taxed at 27.1–30% — the rate is not a single number here. That is the difference between 2.9% and 3% net on the same property. The 3% net figure we publish uses 27.1%.

How the tax works. Non-residents are taxed on Danish rental income under the ordinary progressive income-tax rules; qualifying costs are deductible. Global Property Guide's worked examples (with a 30% maximum cost deduction) give an effective 27.1% of gross rent at EUR 1,500 a month and 30.0% at EUR 6,000-12,000 a month. Source: Global Property Guide Denmark taxes and costs (last update Sep 2026).

How this figure is built

The price figure for Denmark is built from asking prices from listings. It was last refreshed on 2026-10-17. We rate our confidence in this market’s data low — treat the figures as indicative and check them before acting. We recompute every market the same way; a figure that fails our checks is suppressed, not guessed.

Sources: Numbeo Denmark [https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Denmark&displayCurrency=USD]; Eurostat prc_hpi_q RCH_A DK [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/prc_hpi_q?format=JSON&purchase=TOTAL&unit=RCH_A&sinceTimePeriod=2025-Q3&lang=en&geo=DK]; FX api.frankfurter.dev (2025-10-16, 2026-10-16); GPG taxes and costs [https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/europe/denmark/taxes-and-costs]; PwC [https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/denmark/individual/taxes-on-personal-income]. Snapshot: 2026-10-17.