Please note that the housing situation in our capital is one of the most severe ones in Europe. Rooms at a lower price level in Copenhagen are hard to find. Aalborg University International Accommodation Office (AAU IAO) CPH disposes at the moment of a limited number of 1 person rooms in a student hall situated outside the city centre. Please note that the IAO AAU CPH has no apartments or rooms in the city centre. The student hall is situated outside the city, in a suburban area, but with a reasonable low rent.

We have to stress the fact that the AAU CPH does not offer any housing guarantee along with your place of study. It will not be possible for our office to find and secure an accommodation for all applicants during their time and study here, but we will assist and guide you as much as we can in the process.

The best way to prepare for your accommodation search is by reading the short accommodation guide from the International House Copenhagen.

https://international.kk.dk/  
https://lifeindenmark.borger.dk/

Here you can also read more about the Danish Housing Benefit system and if you qualify for receiving a monthly benefit.   

Join our FB group today for networking about accommodation

Since Danish law requires that you apply for a Civil Registration number (CPR number) if you stay more than three months in Denmark, you must be allowed to register the CPR number at your accommodation address in Denmark.

If you rent a private room or apartment please take care to ask the landlord in advance in writing about the possibility to registre the adress at the CPR registe before signing any contracts or transferring a deposit. If you cannot registre for the CPR you should not sign the contract. 

Read more about the CPR number here

HOUSING SCAMS

Although crime-rates in Denmark are low, scams unfortunately do occur. Please make sure to prepare against scams by researching online. 

Scammers
To help home seekers steer free of the most obvious pitfalls - these TIPS were issued by the Copenhagen Police:

• Get a Dane to help you check the quality of the website where you found the advert for renting a room/apartment. Does the website seem odd, is it written in bad and faulty Danish, or is the graphic design of bad quality?
• You can try calling the person mentioned or the company contact person to double-check the information.
• Meet your potential landlord face to face, never pay up the deposit without having a signed contract; this is also important if you have only had mail or phone contacts. Ask for a picture ID from the landlord, this can be a passport, or a driver’s licence, check that the picture resembles the person you are meeting.
• With the exact address of the apartment/house, you can check who is the actual owner of a property on the site www.tinglysning.dk or at www.boligejer.dk
• If your contact person asks for the deposit to be paid in cash or to a foreign account then you should be very careful, many of these fake landlords have foreign accounts. Transfers to foreign accounts are virtually impossible to get back. Remember: If you made the transfer as a regular transfer, you cannot claim the money back from the bank as fraud, but are accountable for it yourself and thus risk losing your money.
• Use your good sense, don’t let anyone put you under pressure and remember the saying – if something appears too good to be true – it probably is.
• Many websites list the warning signs for rental scams, make sure to do your research. 

LEGAL HELP

If you need legal aid with contracts or other issues, you can contact Copenhagen Legal Aid. Copenhagen Legal Aid provides free legal advice. 

There are also other services in Copenhagen where you can get advice free of charge. Some of the sites are only in Danish, but they speak English - contact them and inquire directly through email or phone:

www.lejerens-fr.dk/

digura.dk/en/

www.socialeretshjaelp.dk/

borgerretshjaelpen.dk

You can go online and check who owns the apartment, building or facilieties at www.boligejer.dk the site is primarily in Danish, but you can search on properties and find more information on house owners. The same owner or company (that officially owns the building/apartment/house) should be mentioned in your rental contract by name. 

In Denmark a standard renting contract (in Danish language only) that has been approved by the authorities should be used.

Find a Danish template for a standard contract here.
Find an unauthorised English translation here.

We recommend you use the standard contract as this is viewed as valid by Danish law in case of a dispute. However, we advise you to wait to sign it until someone fluent in Danish has gone through all the parts of it with you. You should ask for time to read through the contract before you sign it. Take care to especially read §11 for any unusual remarks. 

If the landlord is not willing to give you a contract we recommend you find another landlord. If you get evicted without further notice, you do not have any rights if you cannot prove that you are a tenant. Furthermore, you cannot register with the authorities and obtain a CPR number.

The university does not have an insurance that will cover you and your belongings while staying in Denmark. This likewise applies if you are renting accommodation.

We recommend drawing as a minimum a so-called “indboforsikring”. This insurance covers your personal belongings inside your accommodation in case of burglary, but might also include things like a bicycle, which could get stolen from the street. Many are also happy to secure having the funds for a new laptop in case it gets stolen. Make sure to ask the insurance company about the possibilities for coverage in public areas.

The university is not able to recommend any companies as such, but we advise you to search online for “forsikringsselskab” and call them – they all speak English. Some offer a student discount - hence make sure to ask as prices vary a lot already between the different companies.