1-Bed Swedish Archipelago Holiday Home with Private Jetty in Furusund



Monte Christos väg 17, 76019 Furusund, Norrtälje kommun, Sweden, Furusund (Sweden)
1 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 70m² Floor area
€341,000
Country home
No parking
1 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
70m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Early morning in Furusund, the water is so still it mirrors the pine trees perfectly. You walk out of the front door on Monte Christos väg 17, coffee in hand, and the only sound is the distant chug of a wooden sailboat rounding the headland toward the open Baltic. The jetty is ten steps away. This is what you came for.
Furusund sits at the outermost edge of the Norrtälje archipelago, roughly 80 kilometers north of Stockholm — close enough to the city that you can be there in under an hour and a half by car, yet far enough that mobile signal feels like a minor inconvenience rather than a lifeline. The village is small and unassuming: a harbor, a marina, a handful of locals who have been spending summers here for generations, and the Furusund Inn, which has been serving fresh herring and cold snaps since the 1800s. August here smells like sunscreen and smoked fish and salt air. In June, the midsommar poles go up near the harbor and the whole community gathers to dance, eat strawberries with cream, and argue about whose grandmother's dill sauce recipe is better. It is deeply, specifically Swedish in a way that no curated resort can replicate.
The house itself was built in 1955 and carries that era's particular kind of confidence — solid timber construction, low roofline, windows placed to catch the afternoon light rather than impress from the street. Seventy square meters doesn't sound large on paper, but the layout wastes nothing. The open-plan living room and kitchen feel genuinely spacious once you're inside, with original wooden floors that have gone warm and honey-gold over the decades. The kitchen has been updated with modern appliances while keeping the proportions and feel of the original, so it doesn't look like a renovation project grafted onto an old house. It looks like a home.
The single bedroom is quiet. Properly quiet, in that deep countryside way where you wake up not knowing what time it is because no traffic, no neighbors, no noise has interrupted anything. The bathroom is clean and functional — one of those spaces that doesn't need to be photographed to serve its purpose well. The property is in good condition throughout, meaning you can arrive with luggage and start living rather than start planning.
What changes everything, practically and emotionally, is the plot. Three thousand three hundred and sixty-two square meters of it. The garden runs from the house down toward the water through mature birches and old fruit trees that drop their harvest every September without anyone asking them to. Three outbuildings sit on the land — genuinely useful structures for a second home owner, offering storage for kayaks and sailing gear, a workshop for the kind of tinkering that Stockholm apartments never permit, or potential guest space for when friends arrive from abroad and insist on staying longer than planned.
The private jetty is the point where this property becomes something different from a country house with a view. Direct water access in the Stockholm archipelago is not something you find attached to every property. You swim from it in summer, the water cold enough to make you gasp and then grateful. You fish from it at dusk when the perch are running. You tie up a boat — and nearly everyone in Furusund has one, or borrows one — and you are immediately connected to hundreds of kilometers of island-hopping routes through the outer archipelago. Sandhamn is reachable by boat. So is Arholma, the northernmost island in the Stockholm archipelago, where there's a lighthouse, a café, and in summer a population of very tanned Swedes who have been going there since childhood.
Back on the mainland, Norrtälje is 35 kilometers south and offers everything a full-service town should: supermarkets, hardware stores, a hospital, an arts scene that punches above its weight with the Norrtälje Konsthall and a summer program that draws artists from across Scandinavia. The Rosenön island just off Norrtälje has a preserved cultural heritage site. In winter, when the archipelago quiets right down, the cross-country ski trails in Uppland open up and Stockholm's Arlanda Airport — with direct routes across Europe and beyond — is around 90 minutes from the front door.
Climate matters for a second home purchase, and Sweden's east coast delivers proper seasons without the extremes. June through August is genuinely warm, regularly reaching 25 degrees and above, with long evenings where the sun barely sets. The water temperature in July makes swimming more than theoretical. Autumn in the archipelago has a particular melancholy beauty — the birches turn, the crowds leave, the silence becomes almost theatrical. Winter brings occasional snow and ice that can make the jetty picturesque rather than functional, but that's what Stockholm weekends are for.
For international buyers, Sweden offers a transparent and well-regulated property purchase process. There are no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing real estate, and the legal framework is straightforward with clear title registration through Lantmäteriet. Property taxes on holiday homes are manageable, and the Swedish rental market — particularly for archipelago properties in summer — is robust enough that short-term letting during peak weeks can meaningfully offset ownership costs. The Norrtälje municipality is pro-development and there is no specific planning restriction that would prevent sensitive expansion of the existing outbuildings, subject to standard building permits.
Key features:
- Private jetty with direct access to the Furusund archipelago waterway
- 70 sqm house built 1955, in good condition, move-in ready
- One bedroom, one bathroom, open-plan kitchen and living room
- Generous 3,362 sqm plot with mature garden and fruit trees
- Three separate outbuildings for storage, workshop, or guest use
- Original hardwood floors throughout the main living areas
- Walking distance to Furusund harbor, marina, and the historic Furusund Inn
- 80km north of Stockholm, reachable in under 1.5 hours by car
- 90-minute drive to Stockholm Arlanda Airport
- Norrtälje town with full services 35km away
- Strong archipelago summer rental demand for income potential
- No restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing Swedish property
- Cross-country skiing, hiking, and sailing all within easy reach
- Priced at SEK 341,000 — competitive for direct water-access properties in this area
If you've been thinking about a second home in Scandinavia, this is the kind of property that makes the decision easy — not because it ticks every box on a checklist, but because it sits in a place that people return to every summer for forty years and still don't get tired of. Get in touch through Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full property details. The best time to see it is when the light is on the water, which in Furusund is most of the day.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 1
- Size
- 70m²
- Price per m²
- €4,871
- Garden size
- 3362m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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