Carlsberg Byen is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Copenhagen with average asking rent around DKK 1,900/sqm/yr · ≈ $25.6 PSF/yr USD.

  • Repositioned brewery district.
  • Prime tier — ~DKK 1,900/sqm/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Carlsberg Byen, Copenhagen — Class A submarket

Repositioned brewery district. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: DKK 1,900/sqm/yr · ≈ $25.6 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Repositioned brewery district.
  • Prime tier — ~DKK 1,900/sqm/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Carlsberg Byen — the redeveloped former Carlsberg brewery — anchors Copenhagen's principal repositioning frontier. New Class A, mixed-use density, and a strong design and creative tenant base.

Tenant profile

Tech, creative agencies, design firms, professional services.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

Carlsberg (S-tog).

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

Elephant Tower, Carlsberg Brewery Visitor Centre.

Comparable buildings

  • Carlsberg City Office
  • Bohrs Tårn
  • DGNB Carlsberg

Where Carlsberg Byen sits in Copenhagen

Carlsberg Byen is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Copenhagen, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around DKK 1,900/sqm/yr · ≈ $25.6 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Copenhagen Class A stock, Carlsberg Byen typically attracts Tech, creative agencies, design firms, professional services and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Carlsberg Byen: Indre By (CBD), Nordhavn, Frederiksberg, Ørestad. The full Copenhagen submarket atlas is at /cities/copenhagen.

Topic deep-dives for Carlsberg Byen

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Carlsberg Byen, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Copenhagen Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

Reviewed by Samuel Okafor — EMEA contributing editor. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.

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