The boat takes five minutes. Five minutes, and the mainland—with its traffic and noise and ordinary Tuesday mornings—simply disappears. You cut across the water toward Husøya, the engine humming beneath you, and what comes into view is a 160-year-old Trønderlån farmhouse standing against the Norwegian sky, four private islands fanning out around it like a personal archipelago. This is not a metaphor. It is the actual daily reality of owning this estate in Husøyvær, just outside Skutvik on the Hamarøy peninsula in Nordland county.
The main house was built around 1860 and carries that era's particular confidence—thick walls, tall windows facing the sea, a floor plan that wastes no space but somehow feels generous. Upstairs, five bedrooms spread out along a wide landing. Ground level holds two living rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and an entrance vestibule that has absorbed a century and a half of wet boots and returning fishermen. Below that, a lower vestibule and two storage rooms. In total, 154 square meters of interior living space, with a total usable footprint across all structures reaching 360 square meters. The bones are solid. The condition is good. What you bring is your vision for how it evolves.
But the house is almost beside the point—or rather, it's the anchor for something far larger. The total lot size across this entire estate comes to over 6.6 million square meters. Say that number slowly. It encompasses Husøya itself plus four additional islands, each privately owned, each entirely yours. Sandy beaches that see no footprints but your own. Meadows going yellow in late August. Coastal forest where the only sound is wind moving through birch and the occasional complaint of an oystercatcher. To find this kin ... click here to read more
