1-Bed Forest Chalet on 1.1-Hectare Lot, 150m from Rällsjön Lake – Dalarna Vacation Home



Norra Rällsjön 11, 790 21 Bjursås, Leksands kommun, Sweden, Bjursås (Sweden)
1 Bedrooms · 0 Bathrooms · 37m² Floor area
€45,900
Chalet
No parking
1 Bedrooms
0 Bathrooms
37m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a July morning and the air smells of pine resin and cold water. The trees are close — proper Dalarna forest, not a manicured park — and through a gap in the birches you can already see the silver glint of Rällsjön Lake sitting no more than a two-minute walk down the path. That's your commute for a morning swim before breakfast.
Norra Rällsjön 11 is a compact, single-bedroom timber chalet sitting on a genuinely substantial piece of Swedish countryside: 1.1 hectares of forest land in Bjursås, tucked into Leksands municipality in Dalarna. Thirty-seven square metres inside. Eleven thousand outside. The arithmetic of that ratio is exactly the point.
The cabin was built in 1980 and it's in good condition — solid, well-kept, and honest about what it is. There's no pretense here. The kitchen and small dining area face the woods, and in autumn the view through the window shifts daily as the birches go gold and then bare. The living room gets real light through generous windows that open onto the veranda, where a cup of coffee at dusk in late August has a particular quality that people who've experienced it tend to describe very badly to people who haven't. A wood-burning stove handles the heating, and given that Dalarna winters are proper affairs — cold, white, quiet — that stove becomes the social centre of the cabin from November through March. Sanitation is via an outdoor privy, keeping the footprint simple and the running costs minimal. For a property at this price point in this region, it's exactly what the market expects, and it keeps the door wide open for a buyer to invest incrementally in upgrades on their own terms.
The lot deserves special attention. Over a hectare of your own Swedish forest is not a trivial thing. You can walk in any direction from the front door and stay on your own land for a surprisingly long time. There's space to clear a small meadow if you want one, room for a vegetable patch, room for a second outbuilding, room for nothing at all except trees and silence. The mature forest canopy provides genuine privacy — you're not looking into a neighbour's garden.
Rällsjön Lake is 150 metres from the cabin. Not "close to a lake" in the real estate sense, where that might mean a kilometre and a half and a busy road. Actually 150 metres. You can hear it at night when the wind is right. In summer the lake is used for swimming and canoeing, and fishing is serious business here — perch and pike are plentiful, and local anglers know exactly which spots to work in early morning light. There's a rhythm to lake-swimming in Sweden that non-Scandinavians discover quickly and tend to become evangelical about: cold water, no crowds, total quiet, towel on a flat rock. Rällsjön delivers that without competition for space.
Bjursås itself is a small community built around outdoor life. The Bjursås Ski Center sits just a few kilometres away — a low-key, family-oriented ski area that nobody outside Sweden has overcrowded yet, which is precisely its charm. In winter, cross-country skiing trails run directly through the surrounding forest and past this property. The Vasaloppet, the world's oldest and longest cross-country ski race, runs through Dalarna every March and draws tens of thousands of participants and spectators to the region — the energy in the area during race week is unlike anything else in Scandinavia. You don't have to enter to appreciate it.
Rättvik, about 15 kilometres east, is where you go for a proper dinner or a grocery run. The town sits on the southern shore of Lake Siljan — the largest lake in Dalarna and one of the most written-about in Swedish literature. The Rättvik church pier, stretching into Siljan, is one of those places that photographs have failed to adequately capture. In summer, the Dalhalla amphitheatre, carved into a disused limestone quarry a short drive away, hosts opera and major concerts in a setting that genuinely stops first-time visitors in their tracks. Falun, the regional capital and home of the UNESCO-listed copper mine, is under an hour's drive.
Dalarna's food culture is specific and worth knowing. Korv med bröd from a roadside kiosk after skiing. Raggmunk — Swedish potato pancakes served with fried pork and lingonberries — at a local café in Rättvik. Fresh perch fried in butter the afternoon you catch it. These are not marketing generalities; they're what a Tuesday in Dalarna actually tastes like.
For international buyers considering this as a vacation home or second home in Sweden, the practical picture is straightforward. Sweden has no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing property. The price point — under 50,000 euros — places this firmly in the category of accessible entry-level second homes in Europe, particularly rare given the quality of the natural setting and the size of the land. Running costs for a cabin of this type are modest, and the property is self-contained enough to leave unattended between visits without anxiety. Dalarna properties in this bracket have historically held their value well, driven by consistent domestic demand from Stockholm buyers (roughly three hours by train) seeking weekend retreats, and growing interest from international buyers discovering the region.
The nearest airport with regular international connections is Dala Airport in Borlänge, about 55 kilometres away, with connections to Stockholm Arlanda. Stockholm itself is accessible by train via Mora or Borlänge, making this a workable long-weekend destination from most of northern Europe.
Key features at a glance:
- 1-bedroom timber chalet in good condition, built 1980
- 37 sqm interior floor area
- 1.1-hectare (11,000 sqm) private forested lot
- Approximately 150 metres to Rällsjön Lake
- Wood-burning stove heating
- Veranda overlooking forest
- Outdoor toilet
- Cross-country ski and hiking trails directly accessible from the property
- Bjursås Ski Center a few kilometres away
- 15 km from Rättvik and Lake Siljan
- Under 1 hour to Falun and the UNESCO copper mine
- No foreign ownership restrictions in Sweden
- Priced at SEK 45,900 — accessible entry into the Dalarna second-home market
- Strong domestic demand underpins resale value
If you've been thinking about a vacation home in Scandinavia — somewhere that delivers genuine wilderness rather than a landscaped approximation of it — Norra Rällsjön 11 makes the case simply and without overstatement. The forest is real. The lake is close. The price is honest.
Get in touch through Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full property documentation. Visits in late spring or early autumn show the land and the lake at their most persuasive, but honestly, there's no bad time to see Dalarna.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 1
- Size
- 37m²
- Price per m²
- €1,241
- Garden size
- 11000m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 0
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Chalet
- Energy label
Unknown
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