2-Bed Country House on 1-Hectare Plot Near Baltic Sea – Vacation Home in Byske, Sweden



Norra Källbomark 40, 934 97 Byske, Skellefteå, Sweden, Byske (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 80m² Floor area
€59,500
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
80m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a September morning and the air carries something you can't quite name at first — pine resin, damp earth, the faint sweetness of ripening apples from the three old trees at the edge of the lawn. The forest starts just beyond the fence line, and somewhere in there a woodpecker is hammering away at a birch. This is Norra Källbomark 40, a 130-year-old Swedish country house sitting on over a hectare of land outside Byske, and mornings here feel nothing like anywhere else.
Built in 1891 and standing in genuinely good condition, this 1.5-story house has the solid bones of late 19th-century Swedish rural construction — thick walls, wooden floors that creak in the right places, windows that frame the surrounding meadows like paintings you never get tired of looking at. The 80 square metres of living space is arranged across two to three bedrooms depending on how you use the upper half-storey, a living room, and a functional kitchen that gets good afternoon light. It's the kind of layout that doesn't waste space on formality. You cook, you eat nearby, you move outside.
And outside is really the point. Over 10,000 square metres of plot means you have genuine room to breathe — to grow things, to let children run without watching the edge of a terrace, to set up a proper vegetable garden or just leave most of it as the open meadow it already is. The three apple trees produce reliably each autumn; last year's crop was enough for sauce, cider, and still giving away bags to neighbours. The traditional barn at the back is built for purpose — storage, a workshop, a place to keep firewood bone dry through a Swedish winter. The separate sauna building is not a luxury add-on here. It's a Thursday evening, a Sunday afternoon, the thing you do after a long walk when the temperature has dropped below zero and the stars are sharper than you remember stars being anywhere else.
The sauna matters more once you understand the winters. Byske sits in northern Sweden, in Skellefteå municipality, and the winters are long and genuinely cold, with temperatures regularly dropping to minus fifteen or colder between December and February. But the house is fully winterised — well insulated, efficiently heated — and that cold becomes part of the appeal rather than a problem. Snow covers the plot by November most years. The forest trails that run past the property become cross-country ski tracks. The body of water 200 metres from the front gate freezes solid enough for ice fishing, which is a serious local pastime, not a novelty.
Those same trails in summer are for hiking and mountain biking, and the soft light of the northern Swedish summer is something that genuinely has to be experienced to be understood. In June and July, it barely gets dark. You can eat dinner outside at ten in the evening in full daylight. Berry season starts in late July — blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries — and the forests around Norra Källbomark are full of them. Locals go out with buckets, not just handfuls.
The Baltic Sea is 6.7 kilometres away. Byske's coastline has long sandy beaches that run for kilometres along the Bothnian Bay, and in summer the sea temperature reaches a perfectly swimmable 18 to 20 degrees. The Byske Havsbad area is a local institution — a beach resort and camping area that draws Swedish families every July. Kayaking, fishing for Baltic herring and perch, early morning walks along the shore while the fog lifts — these aren't aspirational bullet points, they're what people who live here actually do on weekends.
Byske village itself is a few kilometres away and covers the essentials well: a grocery store, a petrol station, a school, a healthcare centre, a couple of places to eat. For anything more — a proper restaurant dinner, a concert, a hospital visit, a day of real shopping — Skellefteå is roughly 50 kilometres south. The city has grown substantially in recent years, driven partly by the Northvolt battery gigafactory that opened nearby, and it now has a noticeably lively food scene. The Boulebar area around the river has good restaurants; Kafé Station does excellent cinnamon buns; there's a decent cultural calendar at the Skellefteå Museum and the new Sara Cultural Centre, which opened in 2021 and has a rooftop bar with views over the river delta.
Getting here from elsewhere in Europe is easier than the latitude suggests. Skellefteå Airport (SKF) has direct connections to Stockholm Arlanda, and from there it's a two-hour flight to most major European cities. By car from Stockholm, it's roughly eleven hours through some of the most open, forested landscape in Scandinavia — a proper road trip if you want it to be.
For international buyers, Sweden has no restrictions on foreign property ownership, and the purchasing process is relatively transparent and well-regulated. At €55,000–60,000 (approximately), this property sits at a price point that makes it genuinely accessible as a second home or vacation property — a fraction of what comparable rural space costs in France, Italy, or Germany. Maintenance costs in rural northern Sweden are low, and the rental market for short-term holiday lets in this region has grown alongside Skellefteå's expanding international workforce. The property has real potential to generate income when you're not using it, particularly during summer and around the ski season at the nearby Kåge and Burträsk slopes.
Key features at a glance:
- 2-bed country house (convertible to 3 beds) built in 1891, fully winterised and in good condition
- 80 sqm of living space across 1.5 storeys with wooden floors and original character details
- Plot of 10,258 sqm (just over one hectare) with open meadow and forest edge
- Separate traditional sauna building — a genuine Swedish countryside essential
- Traditional barn suitable for storage, workshop, or creative use
- Additional storage sheds for tools, garden equipment, and firewood
- Three mature apple trees producing reliable annual harvests
- 200 metres from a lake or river — fishing and winter ice activities on your doorstep
- 6.7 km from the Baltic Sea coast and Byske's sandy beaches
- Cross-country ski trails and summer hiking routes directly accessible from the property
- Berry-picking forest (blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries) within walking distance
- 50 km from Skellefteå city with airport, hospitals, restaurants, and cultural venues
- No restrictions on foreign ownership; straightforward Swedish purchase process
- Strong short-term rental potential given Skellefteå's growing international visitor base
- Priced well below comparable rural properties in Western Europe
This is not a property that requires imagination to appreciate. It's already what it is — solid, spacious, rooted in a landscape that rewards the people who take the time to know it. If you've been looking for a second home in Europe that trades the crowded Mediterranean coast for something quieter, wilder, and genuinely different, this is worth a serious look.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request a full information pack. Remote viewings and video tours are available for international buyers.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 80m²
- Price per m²
- €744
- Garden size
- 10258m²
- 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
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