Unique opportunity for holiday and hotel project

Hvide Sande Harbour is taking the next step in developing the town’s attractive harbour area. Sluseøen is now being offered to professional developers and investors who wish to create the setting for future holiday homes, hotels, offices, shops, or entirely new and visionary concepts. The tender runs until 15 January 2026 and is managed by EDC Project Poul Erik Bech and EDC Ringkøbing.

Hvide Sande is a vibrant fishing and harbour town with access to both the North Sea and Ringkøbing Fjord. Tourism is also a key driving force, and the town is home to Denmark’s fifth largest fishing port. Every year, Hvide Sande attracts thousands of visitors seeking surfing, cycling, beaches, nature and an authentic harbour atmosphere. In 2019, the Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality recorded nearly three million overnight stays by German tourists, making the area Denmark’s largest tourist destination measured by foreign visitors.

Mogens Pedersen, Director of Hvide Sande Harbour, says: “We are now inviting professional and creative developers to submit bids for Sluseøen and take part in strengthening the area. We want to be the town’s harbour, and it is essential to us that the town and the harbour have great cohesion. Sluseøen is ideally located at the meeting point between harbour, fjord and town, and we see great potential in its development. As a harbour, we see it as our responsibility to prepare the area for an even more exciting future, and we are very much looking forward to the next stage of development. As we say locally: ‘Tourism in Hvide Sande is like the dunes – fundamental and stable,’ and there is no doubt that tourism will continue to grow.”

Two plots on Sluseøen, totalling approximately 6,050 m², are being offered for tender. Area 1 covers 3,200 m² and Area 2 covers 2,850 m². The tender can be won by one or several consortiums. The tender covers a 99-year lease agreement, and the projects will be selected based on criteria such as price and quality. The process runs until 15 January 2026.

Invitation to developers and investorsHvide Sande Harbour has appointed EDC Poul Erik Bech and EDC Ringkøbing to manage the tender, which aims to strengthen Hvide Sande as a year-round destination. Kirk Larsen & Ascanius Law Firm is providing legal and strategic advice.

Tonny Broberg, Project Director at EDC Poul Erik Bech, says: “This is an incredibly exciting project and a unique opportunity to develop holiday homes, hotels, shops, offices or other new concepts in one of Denmark’s leading tourist destinations. We are seeing strong demand in the holiday property market, and together with Feriepartner - Denmark’s largest chain of locally owned holiday rental agencies - and EDC Ringkøbing, we can document solid references for both sales prices and rental income. That creates a strong foundation for profitable development cases on Sluseøen.”

Finn Jakobsen, Commercial Real Estate Agent at EDC Ringkøbing, adds: “The tender for Sluseøen is a highly attractive development opportunity, and the timing could not be better. The new swing bridge and the planned Byens Plads will provide excellent infrastructure and create a new urban space that brings the harbour and the town even closer together. The swing bridge will link the town centre and Sluseøen for pedestrians and cyclists and has been supported by DKK 20 million in funding from the Danish Business Promotion Board, the municipality, Hvide Sande Harbour and Realdania. Tourism in the town continues to thrive, and we believe the market is calling for additional holiday accommodation and hotel capacity.”

“To strengthen growth and attract more year-round tourists, it is crucial to increase accommodation capacity and raise the quality of holiday and hotel offerings, which the new development projects will undoubtedly contribute to,” says Finn Jakobsen.

Read more at www.edc.dk/805037834

More informationTonny Broberg, Project Director, EDC Project Poul Erik Bech,+45 58 58 84 87, tobr@edc.dk