New figures from property site Boligsiden have revealed that the price of a standard 80 square meter apartment in Copenhagen has risen from around 4.8 million kroner to 6 million kroner in the space of a year.
More specifically, the price per square meter of an apartment in Copenhagen has risen by DKK 15,000, according to the site.
In April 2025, homeowners paid DKK 60,054 per square meter for an owned apartment or condominium (these are different to the cheaper ones cooperative housing apartments which are often very difficult to get hold of).
New figures for April 2026 show that this figure has risen by 1.9 percent in the last month, reaching a new record ‒ 75,183 kroner per square meter.
That means that an 80 square meter apartment costs an average of 4.8 million kroner in April 2025, a figure which has now risen to six million kroner in April 2026.
In other words, the price of that same apartment has risen by around 100,000 kroner each month for the past year.
“This shows very clearly how fast prices on the Copenhagen housing market are moving,” Boligsiden’s head of communications, property economist Birgit Daetz, said in a press statement.
“This is caused by rapidly rising demand in a market where supply has been very low,” she said. “To put it this way, we’ve hit the extremes in supply and demand, which has given extra fuel to rising prices.”
Does this mean that prices will continue to rise?
According to Daetz, not necessarily.
“Only time will tell. But in the last few months we’ve seen a rise in the supply of apartments in Copenhagen, and although a lot of properties are still being sold, trade in Copenhagen isn’t at the extra high level we saw last year. If that continues, it could put a dampener on apartment prices in the capital,” she said.
The situation is similar, although less extreme, in Aarhus, where an apartment of the same size has risen in price by 50,000 kroner each month.
In the last month, prices in Aarhus have risen by 3.6 percent, reaching an average sales price of DKK 46,478 per square meter. That’s 18.8 percent more than at the same time last year, and means that an 80 square meter apartment in the city would have cost you 3.1 million kroner last year, or 3.7 million in April this year.
“Prices have risen in Aarhus, particularly in recent months,” Daetz said. “That’s related to record-low supply, while there are still buyers ready and waiting, which is pushing up prices.”
What about other properties?
Houses and summer houses have also gone up in price, according to the website’s data.
Detached houses and terraces have risen by 1.8 percent in the past month, reaching an average sale price per square meter of DKK 19,603 ‒ 8.6 percent higher than the same time last year.
Summer houses have risen in price by 2.8 percent in the past month, 9.1 percent higher than at the same time last year.
“The spring is traditionally a time when prices rise on the property market,” Daetz said. “A lot of people put their homes on sale at this point, buyers are active, and the increase in interest gives a little push to prices. We’re seeing that again this year, especially for summer houses, where there is a lot of interest at the moment.”
