1-Bed Year-Round House with Guest Cabin & Outdoor Spa on Yxlan Island, Stockholm Archipelago



Österviksvägen 44, 760 18 Yxlan, Norrtälje kommun, Sweden, Yxlan (Sweden)
1 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 66m² Floor area
€170,500
House
No parking
1 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
66m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a July morning and the first thing you notice is the light. Out here on Yxlan, it hits differently — bouncing off Yxlömaren lake just 350 metres down the track, filtering through the old apple trees at the garden edge, warming the west-facing terrace before most of Stockholm has had its first coffee. That terrace, with its outdoor spa already in place, is where you'll spend a disproportionate amount of your time here. Trust that.
Yxlan sits in the northern Stockholm archipelago, part of Norrtälje kommun, and it carries that particular quality of Swedish island life that people from the city spend years trying to find. Not the polished resort version. The real kind — where a country store in Köpmanholm sells pickled herring and the ferry to the mainland runs on a timetable that politely refuses to rush you. The island is connected by road and by Waxholmsbolaget ferry from Yxlövik, a few kilometres from Österviksvägen, plus Bus 632 runs several times daily between the island and the mainland. Practical, quiet, close enough to everything, far enough from the noise.
The house at Österviksvägen 44 was built in 1955 and has been brought up to year-round standard — proper insulation, heating systems that handle a Swedish February without complaint. That matters more than people expect when they first start thinking about archipelago property. A summer cabin is one thing. A place you can escape to in November, light a fire, and watch the frost settle on the meadow outside — that's a different category entirely, and this property sits firmly in it.
Inside, the layout is compact but genuinely usable. Three rooms plus kitchen spread across 66 square metres: a kitchen with a dedicated dining nook that handles four people comfortably around a proper table, a living room sized for a real sofa arrangement and a wood-burning fire, and a large bedroom that earns the word large. There's also a transition space between the living room and bedroom — currently open, easily converted into a second sleeping area, a home office, or a reading room depending on what your life actually needs. The kitchen isn't precious. It works. You'll make crayfish here in August and slow-cooked elk in October and both will feel exactly right.
The outdoor spa on the west terrace is not an afterthought. Accessed directly from the living room through glass doors, this terrace catches afternoon sun from mid-morning until well into the evening during the long Nordic summers. The spa sits under open sky. On clear nights in September, when the Milky Way is genuinely visible from Yxlan, soaking in warm water while the temperature drops around you is the kind of thing you'll be telling people about for years.
The plot itself is open and south-westerly facing — sunny, private, not overlooked. Maintained lawns roll between established perennial beds and fruit trees that have been growing here since before the house was built. There's a guest cabin on the property, separate from the main house, which changes the dynamic considerably. Guests get their own space. You keep yours. It's the detail that makes this work as a gathering place for extended family, for the friends who come for a long weekend in midsummer, for grown-up children who want proximity but not proximity. An attached storage room and a woodshed complete the practical picture — because island life does require somewhere to put the kayak paddles, the garden tools, and the six months of firewood.
Two bodies of water flank the property at easy walking distance. Yxlömaren, a freshwater lake, sits 350 metres away — calm, clean, perfect for a morning swim without the currents and salt of the sea. The Baltic coastline is 450 metres in the other direction, which means fishing from the rocks, sailing, and the particular smell of seaweed warming in the sun that becomes, very quickly, the smell of summer. The surrounding forests and meadow paths connect directly into the broader network of walking and cycling trails that thread through this part of the archipelago — hawthorn hedges, osprey overhead in June, chanterelles along the forest floor in August if you know where to look.
For day-to-day life, Köpmanholm village is close by with a country store, a grill, and a bar. On neighbouring Blidö island there's a full grocery store, a restaurant and a hostel that draws a quiet crowd of kayakers and cyclists. Furusund, a short hop away, has an inn and a marina fuel stop for boats. Stockholm itself, with its Östermalm food hall, its archipelago ferry terminals at Strömkajen, and its international airport at Arlanda roughly 90 minutes away, stays accessible without ever feeling close enough to intrude.
For international buyers, Sweden's property purchase process is relatively open and uncomplicated — there are no restrictions on foreign ownership of residential real estate. The local holiday home market in the Stockholm archipelago has shown consistent long-term demand, driven by a deep cultural attachment to sommarstuga life among Swedish buyers combined with growing international interest in Scandinavian nature-based living. A property adapted for year-round use commands a premium over seasonal-only cabins and opens the door to both extended personal use and rental income during peak summer weeks, when archipelago demand far outpaces supply.
Key features at a glance:
- 66 sqm year-round house built 1955, maintained in good condition
- 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, flexible open space convertible to second bedroom or office
- Separate guest cabin for additional sleeping accommodation
- West-facing terrace with installed outdoor spa
- Open, sunny southwest-facing plot with mature fruit trees and perennial gardens
- 350m to freshwater lake Yxlömaren, 450m to the sea
- Attached storage room and woodshed
- Waxholmsbolaget ferry service from nearby Yxlövik
- Bus 632 daily connections to the mainland
- Village amenities in Köpmanholm: store, grill, bar
- Full grocery store and restaurant on neighbouring Blidö island
- No foreign ownership restrictions for international buyers
- Strong archipelago rental demand during summer season
- Arlanda International Airport approximately 90 minutes by car
Yxlan is not a property trend. It's a place people find once and come back to for the rest of their lives. This holiday home on Österviksvägen is one of the rare ones that works in every season — not just the three golden months when any Swedish island looks its best, but in the amber October afternoons and the deep-snow silence of January and the mud-and-birdsong chaos of April breakup. If you've been looking for a second home in the Stockholm archipelago that earns its keep all year round, this is a serious conversation worth having.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request full documentation. Properties at this price point on year-round-capable island plots in the northern archipelago move without much warning — and this one has an outdoor spa already running.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 1
- Size
- 66m²
- Price per m²
- €2,583
- Garden size
- 2532m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
Images






Sign up to access location details


































