On a still July morning in Grillby, the air smells of pine resin and cut grass. A woodpecker hammers at the birch tree near the old pergola. You're standing in 2,660 square meters of your own Swedish countryside, coffee in hand, and the nearest neighbor is far enough away that you can hear the silence. That's not a marketing line — it's Tuesday here.
Boglösa Blacksta 12 is a 1929-built Swedish summer cottage sitting on a generous rural plot in Enköping Municipality, about 80 kilometers west of Stockholm and 40 kilometers from Uppsala. Two bedrooms, 51 square meters of living space, a separate guest cottage, a root cellar, an old pergola, and that enormous garden that immediately starts plotting what it could become. The property is priced at €59,500 and sold in good condition with a disclaimer clause, which is standard practice in Sweden for older rural properties — it simply means the buyer takes ownership of the property as-is, and surveys are conducted before signing. For international buyers, this is a well-worn process with good legal protections in place.
Let's be honest about what this place is. It's not a turnkey holiday villa. The interiors are older standard — think original 1920s construction bones, the kind of craftsmanship that doesn't exist anymore, buried under layers of wallpaper and time. The guest cottage needs work. So do some of the outbuildings. But that's precisely why the price is what it is, and why the right buyer — someone who sees past the surface and has a plan — will find serious value here. Swedish country cottages with this much land, this close to major cities, at this price point are increasingly rare. People from Stockholm and Uppsala have been snapping them up for decades precisely be ... click here to read more
