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Purchase offer template for Denmark

Offer to purchaseKøbstilbud

A short written offer from the buyer to buy a named property at a stated price, with a deadline for the seller's answer. It states the buyer's conditions: bank approval, approval by the buyer's adviser and a full purchase agreement (købsaftale). It does not replace the købsaftale.

Use it after a viewing, when you want to name your price in writing before the seller or the agent drafts the købsaftale. It is not required by law. In most sales through an estate agent, the buyer makes the offer by signing the agent's draft købsaftale. Then this letter only opens the negotiation. In a private sale without an agent it fixes the price and the conditions before a lawyer drafts the købsaftale.

Reviewed October 28, 2026. Not legal advice. Have a notary or lawyer check your case before you sign.

Key facts

Applies to
Denmark (not the Faroe Islands or Greenland). Houses, holiday homes and owner-occupied flats (ejerlejligheder). Not for cooperative flats (andelsboliger).
Withdrawing the offer
For a home for your own use, possible until the seller accepts it (forbrugerbeskyttelsesloven § 7(2)).
Deadline for acceptance
The seller's acceptance must reach you before the deadline you set (aftaleloven § 2).
Counter-offer
An acceptance with changes is a rejection and a new offer (aftaleloven § 6).
Withdrawal after agreement
6 weekdays from the agreement, by written notice and payment of 1% of the price (forbrugerbeskyttelsesloven §§ 8 and 11).
Weekdays
Saturdays and Constitution Day do not count (§ 13).
Huseftersynsordningen protection
Only if you had the condition report, electrical report and insurance offer before the offer the seller accepts (§ 2(2)).
Adviser reservation
Usually 3 to 5 weekdays in the købsaftale. It runs at the same time as the withdrawal period (boligejer.dk).
Energy label
Not needed for holiday homes or detached buildings under 60 m².

The document

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You sign the Danish version. The English version helps you understand it. Your answers fill both.

Offer to purchase

  1. 1.Parties

    1. 1.1

      The undersigned Buyer's full name, Buyer's address, hereinafter "the buyer", hereby makes an offer to Seller's full name, Seller's address, or the agent's address, hereinafter "the seller", to buy the property described below on the following terms.

      List every buyer, with CPR number or date of birth. The seller is every owner shown in the land register (tingbogen).

  2. 2.The property

    1. 2.1

      The property located at Address of the property, Cadastral number and district, of the type Type of property, offered for sale at a cash price of Asking price in kroner kroner.

      Copy matrikelnummer and ejerlav from the listing or land register. For a flat, add the ejerlejlighed number. It identifies the land better than the address.

  3. 3.Purchase price

    1. 3.1

      The buyer offers a cash purchase price of Offered price in kroner, in figures kroner, in words Offered price in words kroner.

    2. 3.2

      The purchase price will be settled by a cash deposit of Cash deposit in kroner kroner, deposited after the purchase agreement is signed, and by a bank guarantee for the rest of the price.

      This states how you will pay. Pay nothing with the offer. The law sets no deposit amount. The deposit and guarantee deadlines go into the købsaftale.

  4. 4.Conditions

    1. 4.1

      Optional

      The offer is conditional on Your bank or mortgage lender approving the financing of the purchase no later than Weekdays for the bank's approval weekdays after both parties have signed the purchase agreement.

      Delete it only if you pay entirely from your own funds. A bank reservation and an adviser reservation are separate. One does not replace the other.

    2. 4.2

      The offer is conditional on the buyer's adviser, Your lawyer or buyer's adviser, approving the purchase as a whole. Objections must reach the seller or the seller's estate agent in writing no later than 4 pm, Weekdays for the adviser's approval weekdays after both parties have signed the purchase agreement.

      This is the usual adviser reservation, per boligejer.dk. 3 to 5 weekdays is usual. The adviser need not give reasons.

    3. 4.3

      Optional

      The offer is further conditional on the buyer having received, before the seller's acceptance, a valid condition report, electrical installation report, energy label if the property must have one, an offer of change-of-ownership insurance and the seller's written commitment to pay half of its premium.

      Keep it for a house or holiday home under the Huseftersynsordningen. For a flat in an ejerforening, ask instead for the energy label and ejerforening papers.

  5. 5.Takeover

    1. 5.1

      The buyer wishes to take over the property on Proposed takeover date (overtagelsesdag) or on another date by agreement.

  6. 6.Purchase agreement

    1. 6.1

      The purchase becomes binding only when the parties have signed a final purchase agreement. By the seller's acceptance of this offer, the parties undertake to negotiate a purchase agreement on the terms stated in the offer.

      This clause keeps the offer from becoming a full sale on acceptance. Keep it unless your adviser tells you otherwise.

    2. 6.2

      The buyer has been informed of the withdrawal right under the Act on consumer protection in the acquisition of real property, which applies from the conclusion of the agreement.

  7. 7.Deadline for acceptance

    1. 7.1

      The offer is valid until Date and time the offer expires. The seller's written acceptance must have reached the buyer before that time. After it, the offer lapses without further notice.

      Set a short, exact deadline with a time of day. Until the seller accepts, you can take back the offer by telling the seller.

    2. 7.2

      A reply that changes the price or the terms is a rejection and a new offer.

  8. 8.Signatures

    1. 8.1

      Place of signature, on Date of signature. Signature of the buyer.

    2. 8.2

      Seller's acceptance: The above offer is hereby accepted on the stated terms, on Date the seller accepts. Signature of the seller.

      Every owner shown in the land register signs the acceptance.

Formalities

  1. No form, witness or notary is required.
  2. Sign and date the offer. Send it by email or letter to the seller or the seller's agent, and keep proof of when it arrived.
  3. The seller's acceptance must reach you before the deadline in the offer.
  4. A reply that changes the price or a term is a new offer.
  5. For a home for your own use, you can take back the offer until the seller accepts it.
  6. After the seller accepts and a købsaftale exists, you have the statutory 6-weekday withdrawal right against payment of 1% of the price.

Common mistakes

  • Writing an unconditional offer. Once the seller accepts, a binding purchase may exist before your adviser and bank check anything. Keep the reservations in.
  • Setting no deadline. Without one, the offer stays open for the time a reply could normally take, and you do not control when the seller can accept.
  • Making an offer on a house before you have the condition report, the electrical report and the insurance offer. Ask for them first and read them.
  • Relying on the 6-weekday withdrawal right as a free exit. It costs 1% of the price, and the payment must reach the seller within the period.
  • Treating a seller's reply with a new price as an agreement. It is a counter-offer. Nothing is agreed until you accept it.
  • Ignoring your right to buy. Without 5 years in Denmark you need permission or, as an EU/EEA buyer of a year-round home, a declaration to Tinglysningsretten.

Legal basis

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