Early on a Saturday morning in Bergsjö, the kitchen fills with pale Nordic light before the rest of the house wakes up. The geothermal heat hums quietly underfoot. Outside, frost still clings to the garden edges, and the spruce trees beyond the fence stand perfectly still. This is what 172 square metres of Swedish countryside living actually feels like — unhurried, real, and quietly extraordinary.
Vade 308 is a proper old Swedish villa, built in 1909 and sitting on a plot of 2,469 square metres in Nordanstigs kommun, roughly 260 kilometres north of Stockholm along the High Coast corridor. The price — 60,700 EUR — is almost startlingly low for what you get: a large three-to-four bedroom home in good condition, an A-rated energy label, geothermal heating already installed, and enough land to grow food, host summer gatherings, or simply watch the seasons change from a garden chair. For international buyers looking at second homes in Scandinavia, it's the kind of listing that stops the scroll.
The house itself rewards close attention. It's not a renovation project in the exhausting sense — the structure is solid, the heating modern, and the main living area is move-in ready. What's genuinely exciting is the upper floor, where an unfinished section invites you to put your own mark on the space. A guest suite with dormer windows. A reading room lined with bookshelves. A home studio with north-facing light. The bones are there; the story of what it becomes is yours to write.
Five rooms spread across the ground and upper floors give the layout real breathing space. Three confirmed bedrooms mean you can sleep a family comfortably and still have a room left over for whoever shows up with a sleeping bag in July. The kitchen sits ... click here to read more