SUMMARY
Copenhagen's build-to-rent boom will slow down. In fact, the old rental-led construction cycle has already broken: far less housing is being developed, future local plans are likely to force a more mixed tenure split, and institutional rental growth is spreading farther into Greater Copenhagen.
The sharpest evidence is construction itself. Copenhagen averaged about 316,500 m² of residential construction a year in 2020-2024, while the 2025-2027 pipeline is only around 145,500 m² a year, a fall of roughly 54%.
That slowdown does not mean investors have lost interest in rental housing. Danish residential transactions reached about DKK 37 billion in 2025, and residential investment rose again in the first half of 2026, so capital has recovered faster than development.
The city is also correcting a tenure imbalance created by the last boom. Roughly two-thirds of homes built in Copenhagen since 2011 were private rentals, even though private rentals make up only about 30% of the existing housing stock.
Tenant demand is not the weak link. Copenhagen vacancy remains around exceptionally low levels, rents have risen, and the municipality still expects major long-term housing demand, so the market looks supply-constrained rather than overbuilt.
The next rental cycle is therefore likely to be smaller but economically stronger. The construction crash reduced future competition, helped rents rise and made good rental assets more valuable again, which is why forward purchases and institutional acquisitions have started to reappear.
The proposed 25% owner-occupation power should change the shape of future projects more than the volume of projects already under way. Existing permissions and advanced schemes will largely continue under the old framework, while new local plans will gradually become more mixed.
The policy can still make marginal projects harder to finance. A pure rental scheme can be sold to one institutional buyer; a mixed project may need individual apartment sales, social-housing participation and several financing structures at once.
High condo prices give developers another reason to accept more owner-occupied housing, but affordability limits how far that switch can go. Copenhagen has strong demand for both rental and owner-occupied homes, which points toward mixed-tenure development rather than a simple conversion from one model to the other.
The suburbs are becoming part of the answer. Albertslund, Gladsaxe, Ishøj, Ballerup, Glostrup and Brøndby are already attracting the sort of institutional rental capital that once concentrated more heavily inside Copenhagen Municipality.
The result is a different build-to-rent market: fewer projects, more selective underwriting, more compact and flexible rental formats, more mixed tenure inside Copenhagen and more institutional rental development across the wider metropolitan area. Build-to-rent is losing dominance, not relevance.
Is Copenhagen's build-to-rent boom already slowing?
Yes. Copenhagen's build-to-rent boom has already slowed sharply when we look at what is actually getting built.
Colliers' Copenhagen residential data puts the change in perspective. Residential construction in Copenhagen averaged about 316,500 m² a year in 2020-2024. For 2025-2027, the expected pipeline averages only around 145,500 m² a year. That is a drop of roughly 54%.
The same thing is happening beyond the municipal boundary. Greater Copenhagen outside Copenhagen and Frederiksberg went from around 365,000 m² of annual residential construction in 2020-2024 to a projected 160,000 m² a year for 2025-2027, down about 56%.
These are much bigger moves than a normal weak quarter. Copenhagen is producing housing at less than half the pace seen during the recent construction boom.
There is one complication, and it becomes important later: money is flowing back into rental property even while construction remains depressed. Colliers recorded around DKK 37 billion of Danish residential transactions in 2025, roughly DKK 10 billion more than the year before. CBRE then reported another 17% year-on-year increase in residential investment during the first half of 2026.
So the first part of the answer is already clear. Fewer rental homes are being developed, but investors still want to own them.
| Measure | Earlier level | Current/forward level | Change | What we learn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copenhagen residential construction | 316,500 m²/year, 2020-2024 | 145,500 m²/year, 2025-2027 pipeline | -54% | Development has fallen dramatically |
| Greater Copenhagen outside city/Frederiksberg | 365,000 m²/year | 160,000 m²/year | -56% | The slowdown reaches the suburbs too |
| Danish residential transactions | ~DKK 27bn, 2024 | ~DKK 37bn, 2025 | +~37% | Investors came back strongly |
| Residential investment, H1 2026 | H1 2025 baseline | +17% YoY | Rising | Demand for rental assets remains strong |
Did private rentals really take over Copenhagen's new housing?
Yes. Private rental housing became the dominant product of Copenhagen's last building cycle.
Copenhagen Municipality says roughly two-thirds of the homes built in the city since 2011 have been private rentals. That is a much larger share than private rentals hold in the existing housing stock.
By 2025, about 30.3% of Copenhagen's roughly 346,500 homes were private rentals, ahead of cooperatives at 28.2%, owner-occupied homes at 22.2% and social housing at 19.3%. That works out to around 105,000 private rental homes already in the city.
New construction was even more tilted toward renting. Colliers calculated that about 84% of the 7,574 homes completed across Greater Copenhagen in 2024 were rental properties. That is roughly 6,360 rental homes in one year.
This helps explain why the political response has become much stronger. Copenhagen is dealing with a housing shortage, but city politicians also think the housing being added has become too concentrated in one tenure. The proposed owner-occupation rule is aimed directly at that imbalance.
| Copenhagen housing tenure | Share of existing stock | Approximate homes | Recent direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private rental | 30.3% | ~105,000 | Grew strongly |
| Cooperative | 28.2% | ~97,700 | Very little new supply |
| Owner-occupied | 22.2% | ~76,900 | Much smaller share of new construction |
| Social housing | 19.3% | ~66,900 | Below political ambitions |
| Private rentals among homes built since 2011 | Roughly two-thirds | — | Dominant new-build tenure |
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Is Copenhagen's housing construction slump just temporary?
Probably not over the next few years. Copenhagen's housing pipeline is too weak for a quick return to boom-era construction.
The downturn began well before the latest political fight over tenure. Copenhagen Municipality reported that 2,600 fewer homes were completed in 2022 than in 2021, making 2022 the weakest completion year in six years at the time.
The pipeline then stayed weak. Colliers reported low housing starts and building permits through 2025, while its 2025-2027 construction forecast for Copenhagen sits 54% below the 2020-2024 annual average.
Even an immediate jump in permits would take time to reach tenants. Large Copenhagen apartment projects often spend years moving through planning, financing and construction. A forward-purchase deal can be agreed well before completion, and physical construction itself commonly takes around two years.
We can see that lag in Ørestad today. Urban Partners agreed to buy Skanska's Ørestads Boulevard 31 development through a forward purchase, building permission was secured, and construction eventually started in June 2026. The 210 apartments and 143 long-stay hotel units are still scheduled for completion in 2028.
Copenhagen therefore has a genuine supply hole ahead. Better investor sentiment can restart projects, but it cannot instantly refill several weak years in the development pipeline.
Why did Copenhagen's build-to-rent boom break in the first place?
The Copenhagen build-to-rent boom broke because projects stopped making financial sense, even though plenty of people still wanted apartments.
From 2022 onward, developers were hit from several directions. Construction became more expensive. Borrowing costs jumped. Institutional property investors demanded higher yields, which meant they were willing to pay less for the same stream of future rent.
That combination hurt Copenhagen particularly badly because large rental developments often depend on forward transactions. A developer can agree to sell a project to an institutional investor before the building is finished, which makes financing much easier. The investor pays for a future income-producing property, while the developer gets enough certainty to move ahead.
Once investors started demanding substantially better returns, that equation broke. The completed building was no longer worth enough to cover the land price, construction bill, financing and developer margin on many sites.
Construction costs are still creating pressure today. Statistics Denmark recorded another 2.4% quarterly rise in residential construction costs in the second quarter of 2026. Financing conditions have improved from the worst point of the shock, but developers have not returned to the extraordinarily cheap capital environment that powered the earlier boom.
That is how Copenhagen ended up with a housing shortage and a construction slump at the same time. People still needed apartments; developers simply could not make enough new projects stack up financially.
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Is Copenhagen actually running out of tenants for all these rental apartments?
No. Copenhagen's rental market looks tight rather than oversupplied.
Vacancy gives us the cleanest answer. Colliers estimated residential vacancy in Copenhagen proper, excluding the central K district, at around 2% in late 2024. By late 2025, the firm was still describing residential vacancy as exceptionally low and reported typical market-rent increases of about 5-10% over the previous year.
An overbuilt rental market usually starts behaving very differently. Empty units sit for longer, landlords offer incentives and rent growth weakens. Copenhagen has instead been dealing with scarce availability while the construction pipeline has shrunk.
The longer-term demand numbers point the same way. Copenhagen Municipality estimates that the city will need around 77,000 additional homes through 2060 to meet projected housing demand as the population grows by roughly 113,000 people. Much of that need is expected to come from smaller and medium-sized homes.
Affordability is the harder part. The municipality estimates that asking rents on available private rental homes are around 135% above rents in social housing. A strong rental market does not mean Copenhagen households find these homes cheap.
For build-to-rent investors, though, the immediate issue is simpler: there is no broad tenant-demand collapse killing the model today.
Are property investors pulling away from Copenhagen rentals?
No. Investors are paying more attention to Copenhagen and Danish rental housing again.
Residential property accounted for more than half of the growth in Denmark's real-estate transaction market in 2025, according to Colliers. Total Danish residential transactions reached roughly DKK 37 billion, around DKK 10 billion above the previous year.
The recovery carried into 2026. CBRE recorded 17% year-on-year growth in Danish residential investment during the first half of the year even though total commercial-property investment fell 14%. In June alone, residential accounted for 85% of Danish real-estate transaction volume.
The individual deals are useful because they show several types of capital doing the same thing. M&G Real Estate acquired Banehaverne, a 667-home rental development spanning Glostrup and Brøndby. CBRE Investment Management bought 132 newly completed apartments in Ishøj. Quantum acquired 46 rental apartments in Frederiksberg. Formuepleje bought a fully let 153-unit development in Ballerup at an underlying property value of DKK 437 million.
Colliers' latest investor research goes even further. At the beginning of 2026, an INREV survey ranked Danish residential property as the most sought-after real-estate investment market in Europe.
Investors have clearly returned. The shortage is more about finding enough attractive rental assets and viable developments than finding capital willing to buy them.
| Recent investment | Location | Rental homes | Buyer | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banehaverne | Glostrup/Brøndby | 667 | M&G Real Estate | Large international capital is active |
| Residential asset | Ishøj | 132 | CBRE Investment Management | Investors will buy newly completed stock |
| Bernhards Have | Frederiksberg | 46 | Quantum | Demand extends into expensive inner locations |
| Telegrafvej | Ballerup | 153 | Formuepleje | Fully let suburban projects remain attractive |
| Danish residential market | Nationwide, Copenhagen-heavy | — | Many buyers | ~DKK 37bn transacted in 2025 |
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Are developers finally starting Copenhagen rental projects again?
Yes, but today's restart looks selective rather than boom-like.
Ørestads Boulevard 31 is probably the clearest recent example. Skanska sold the project to Urban Partners for DKK 608 million through a forward-purchase agreement. The scheme contains 210 compact rental apartments and 143 long-stay hotel apartments.
More importantly, the project has moved beyond an announcement. Skanska and Urban Partners broke ground in June 2026, and the development is scheduled to take about 24 months to build. Urban Partners will take ownership when it is completed, while Juli Living is expected to lease the residential portion.
Sydhavnen provides another example. NPV sold the second stage of its Trekantgrunden micro-living project to an institutional investor managed by Thylander. That phase includes 98 residential units and seven hotel apartments, while the broader site contains 455 units.
At Amager Strand, AG Gruppen has also forward-funded a 95-unit serviced-apartment development to Swiss Life Asset Managers.
These projects show that the financing model behind Copenhagen build-to-rent works again in certain cases. Investors will commit to unfinished residential assets when the location, rents, construction price and purchase price line up.
The type of housing is changing as well. Smaller apartments, long-stay accommodation and flexible rental concepts appear repeatedly in these recent deals. They fit demand from students, young professionals, international workers and smaller households, while allowing developers to squeeze more units into expensive sites.
What we have not seen is anything close to the broad building wave of the early 2020s. Developers are getting projects started again, but they are picking their spots.
Will Copenhagen really force 25% owner-occupied housing into new developments?
Copenhagen is clearly preparing to use the new 25% owner-occupation power as soon as national legislation allows it.
The political direction has become unusually explicit. In March 2026, Copenhagen City Council unanimously approved a proposal instructing the municipal administrations to prepare measures so the city can incorporate requirements for up to 25% owner-occupied housing into new local plans once the national legal change takes effect.
The reason written into the proposal is revealing. Copenhagen politicians pointed directly to the fact that far more private rental homes have been built over the past decade than owner-occupied, cooperative or social homes.
The planned national mechanism would resemble the power municipalities already have to require up to 25% social housing in qualifying local plans. Copenhagen actively uses that existing tool. For example, the 2026 local-plan proposal for Langelinie Nord contains around 230 family homes, with 25% set aside as social housing.
If Copenhagen combines the two powers in future development areas, some sites could carry both an owner-occupation requirement and a social-housing requirement. That would leave a much smaller portion available for conventional private build-to-rent than developers became used to during the last boom.
The exact impact will depend on how Copenhagen writes each local plan, but the political intention is no longer vague. City Hall wants future neighbourhoods to contain fewer purely private-rental developments.
| Planning tool | Maximum share | Copenhagen's position | Likely effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Existing social-housing requirement | Up to 25% | Already actively used | Reduces private component on qualifying sites |
| New owner-occupation power | Up to 25% | City preparing to use it | Directly limits pure build-to-rent |
| Combined theoretical allocation | Up to 50% across both categories | Depends on each local plan | Could materially change project tenure mix |
| Remaining private component | Potentially 50%+ depending on plan | Project-specific | BTR remains possible but less dominant |
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Will the 25% owner-occupation rule hit Copenhagen projects that are already planned?
Mostly no. The new Copenhagen owner-occupation rule should take time to work through the development pipeline.
The draft national framework focuses on new local planning rather than rewriting the tenure of everything already permitted or already moving through development.
That creates a sizeable transition period. Projects with existing planning rights, schemes already far enough through the local-plan process and developments sitting inside established residential areas will not all suddenly lose 25% of their rental units.
This distinction is important because several large projects scheduled for completion over the next few years were conceived under the previous planning regime. Ørestads Boulevard 31, for example, already has its building permit and construction is underway. Its 210 apartments are planned as rental housing under Urban Partners.
So anyone expecting Copenhagen's rental pipeline to fall by another 25% overnight is reading the policy too literally. The change should become more visible as new districts and new local plans enter the system.
For a while, Copenhagen will effectively have two development markets: older projects progressing under existing rules and newer areas being designed around a more mixed tenure model.
Could Copenhagen's 25% rule make the housing shortage worse?
Yes. Requiring owner-occupied housing could delay some Copenhagen projects, especially where developers were relying on one institutional buyer for the whole scheme.
The financial issue is practical. A 100% rental project can sometimes be sold in one transaction to a pension fund, insurance company or residential fund. That buyer gives the developer much more certainty before construction begins.
Owner-occupied projects depend more heavily on individual sales and often require presales before lenders are comfortable funding construction. Splitting a development between rental, owner-occupied and potentially social housing adds complexity too.
The Danish government's work on the policy has acknowledged that risk. The analysis behind the proposed legislation found that owner-occupation requirements could reduce developer returns, make some projects less attractive and weaken housing construction. Policymakers still chose a maximum of 25%, rather than the much more aggressive option of allowing municipalities to demand up to 100% owner occupation.
There is no evidence yet that Copenhagen's rule has actually stopped a wave of projects because the new regime has not had enough time to affect completed development data. Claiming a large measured impact today would be getting ahead of the evidence.
But the risk is real. On marginal sites, taking away the possibility of selling the entire building to one rental investor can be enough to delay a project until sale prices, land values or financing conditions improve.
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Will Copenhagen developers prefer condos now that apartment prices have surged?
More of them probably will. Copenhagen's soaring apartment prices have made building homes for sale much harder for developers to ignore.
Colliers reported roughly 20% year-on-year growth in Copenhagen owner-occupied apartment prices during 2025. Copenhagen Municipality's longer-term figures show an even more dramatic shift: apartment prices have almost tripled since 2010.
That can radically change a developer's calculation. Selling 100 apartments one by one at very high prices may generate more value than selling the entire building to one rental investor.
There is an obvious catch. Copenhagen's high sale prices are also excluding more potential buyers. Municipal housing analysis estimates that the user cost of owning a newly purchased home is almost 60% higher than the rent on advertised private rental housing. A first-time buyer without significant savings would need roughly twice the average income to buy a 60 m² apartment.
Developers therefore face two unusually strong but conflicting markets. Rich condo pricing makes for-sale development attractive, while poor affordability keeps large numbers of households in the rental sector.
The 25% rule pushes the first market harder by forcing some owner-occupied supply into projects that might otherwise have been entirely rental. Strong rents keep pulling the other way.
That combination makes mixed-tenure projects more likely than a wholesale switch from rentals to condos.
Is build-to-rent moving from Copenhagen into the suburbs?
Yes. Greater Copenhagen is already absorbing a large share of the rental projects and institutional money that struggle to fit inside the capital itself.
Look at where some of the larger recent transactions are happening. Thylander's T/IX residential fund bought two development sites in Albertslund expected to produce around 470 apartments. ALFA Development started 133 rental homes at Søborg Skovby in Gladsaxe and has roughly another 100 planned. CBRE Investment Management bought 132 apartments in Ishøj. M&G's Banehaverne development contains 667 rental homes across Glostrup and Brøndby.
Those projects alone represent more than 1,500 homes at different stages of development or investment.
The suburbs offer some basic advantages. Land is generally cheaper, larger sites are easier to assemble, and tenants can still reach Copenhagen's employment market by S-train, metro or regional rail. Municipal planning priorities also vary outside Copenhagen City.
Investors are being pushed outward by pricing too. Colliers expects stronger competition for Danish residential assets to compress yields and send more investors beyond the most expensive parts of the capital region in search of better returns.
So a slowdown inside Copenhagen Municipality could hide a more resilient metropolitan rental market. Build-to-rent is increasingly spreading across the wider Copenhagen commuter belt.
| Project/investment | Municipality | Rental homes | Current status | Investor/developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banehaverne | Glostrup/Brøndby | 667 | Major rental investment | M&G / development consortium |
| Albertslund sites | Albertslund | ~470 | Development investments | Thylander T/IX |
| Søborg Skovby | Gladsaxe | 133 + ~100 planned | Construction / future phase | ALFA Development |
| Ishøj residential asset | Ishøj | 132 | Completed and acquired | CBRE Investment Management |
| Telegrafvej | Ballerup | 153 | Completed, fully leased and sold | Formuepleje |
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Does Copenhagen's housing shortage make build-to-rent more profitable again?
Yes. Copenhagen's housing shortage is repairing some of the economics that higher interest rates broke.
The chain is visible in the data. Construction fell heavily after 2022. Fewer apartments reached the market. Vacancy stayed very low. Rents then increased, with Colliers reporting typical rises of roughly 5-10% in parts of the Copenhagen market over a year.
Higher rents increase the expected income from a new apartment building. That lets an institutional investor pay more for the finished property. At the same time, stronger competition between investors can push required yields lower, which raises property values again.
Colliers says residential capital values increased during 2025 largely because of rent growth, while competition between buyers intensified. The return of forward transactions suggests that some development projects have crossed back into financially workable territory.
The construction crash itself helped make the surviving rental projects more attractive by removing future competition.
Construction costs and financing still stop plenty of schemes, so the economics have not returned to the easy-money years. But the underlying rental business looks stronger than the weak pipeline alone would suggest.
Will Copenhagen's build-to-rent boom finally slow down?
Yes. Copenhagen's old build-to-rent boom is already over, but rental housing itself is heading into a smaller and more competitive second phase rather than disappearing.
The clearest number remains the construction pipeline. Copenhagen is moving from roughly 316,500 m² of annual residential construction in 2020-2024 to about 145,500 m² a year expected for 2025-2027. A fall of roughly 54% is too large to describe as a minor cooling.
Policy should make the next cycle look different as well. Private rentals captured around two-thirds of Copenhagen's new housing since 2011, and City Hall is preparing to require up to 25% owner occupation in qualifying new local plans. Copenhagen can already require up to 25% social housing in some developments. Future districts therefore have a much better chance of being split between several tenures instead of being sold almost entirely to one rental investor.
At the same time, the business case for owning rental housing looks strong. Vacancies remain very low, rents have risen, Danish residential transactions reached roughly DKK 37 billion in 2025, investment increased again in the first half of 2026, and institutions are still buying large projects across Greater Copenhagen. Skanska and Urban Partners have even moved their 210-apartment Ørestad development from a forward-purchase agreement into actual construction.
The same capital is spreading farther into Albertslund, Gladsaxe, Ishøj, Ballerup, Glostrup and Brøndby as prime Copenhagen sites become expensive and planning becomes more restrictive.
Our final call is firm. Copenhagen is unlikely to return to the period when private build-to-rent swallowed most new housing production. The city will build fewer homes in the near term, future projects should contain more owner-occupied and social housing, and more institutional rental development will move into the wider metropolitan area.
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| Question | Our judgment | Confidence | What to expect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is Copenhagen rental construction slowing? | Yes, sharply | Very high | Weak completions continue for several years |
| Is rental demand weakening? | No | High | Low vacancy keeps rents firm |
| Are investors leaving residential property? | No | Very high | Competition for good assets stays strong |
| Will the 25% owner-occupation policy matter? | Yes, gradually | High | New districts become more mixed |
| Will existing projects suddenly lose rental units? | Mostly no | High | Policy feeds through slowly |
| Is build-to-rent moving outward? | Yes | High | Greater Copenhagen gets more institutional rental projects |
| Will the old rental-dominated boom return? | Unlikely | High | A smaller, more selective BTR cycle replaces it |
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OUR METHODOLOGY
This analysis tests whether Copenhagen's old build-to-rent boom is actually slowing and, just as importantly, what is replacing it. We separate construction activity from investor appetite because those two parts of the market are moving in different directions: development has fallen sharply while demand for rental assets has recovered.
We break the question into seven parts: residential construction, housing tenure, tenant demand, investment activity, development economics, planning policy and the movement of institutional rental projects into Greater Copenhagen. No single indicator decides the conclusion.
For construction, we use the 2020-2024 annual average as the recent boom-period benchmark and compare it with the 2025-2027 pipeline. This reduces the risk of treating one unusually strong or weak year as the whole cycle.
Rental demand is judged primarily through vacancy and rent behaviour. Investor appetite is judged through residential transaction volumes, disclosed acquisitions and forward transactions. When assessing whether development is actually restarting, we give more weight to projects that have reached financing, forward purchase, forward funding or construction than to general statements about improving sentiment.
Geography changes depending on the question. Copenhagen Municipality is the main reference point for housing stock, tenure, construction and planning policy. Greater Copenhagen is used when testing whether build-to-rent is moving outward. Denmark-wide investment figures provide the broader capital-market backdrop and are checked against individual Copenhagen-area transactions.
We treat the proposed 25% owner-occupation power as a forward-looking planning change, not as an automatic 25% cut to projects already permitted or under construction. Existing planning rights and advanced projects are therefore kept separate from the next generation of local plans.
Key sources used include Colliers' Denmark Market Report 2025, Colliers' Copenhagen Focus Report, Copenhagen Municipality's Housing Report 2025, Colliers on Copenhagen vacancy, rents and apartment prices, Colliers' 2026 investment-market research, CBRE Denmark's Q2 2026 investment figures, and Statistics Denmark's residential construction-cost data.
For policy and project-level evidence, we also use Copenhagen City Council's March 2026 owner-occupation decision, the Danish Parliament's legislative material, Retsinformation on the existing social-housing planning power, Copenhagen Municipality's Langelinie Nord local plan, Skanska's Ørestads Boulevard 31 forward-purchase announcement, and Skanska's construction-start update.
Recent transactions are cross-checked against primary material from the companies involved, including Swiss Life Asset Managers, NPV, AG Gruppen on Banehaverne, CBRE Investment Management, Thylander, and ALFA Development.
The final judgment comes from convergence across those sources. Construction, vacancy, rents, capital flows, individual deal activity, project starts and planning decisions all point to the same broad outcome: Copenhagen's rental-led building boom is fading, but institutional rental housing remains a strong investment market and is shifting into a more selective, mixed-tenure and metropolitan phase.
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