2-Bed Fjord-View Chalet on Elvalandet with 2022 Boathouse – Vacation Home Near Namsos



Ølhammarvegen 485, 7810 Namsos, Namsos (Norway)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 78m² Floor area
€119,500
Chalet
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
78m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand on the terrace at nine in the evening in July and the sun still hasn't gone down. The fjord below you — Nufsfjorden stretching west toward Nærøysund — catches the light in long copper ribbons. A boat cuts a white line across the water somewhere in the distance. The wood stove inside is cold because you don't need it yet. You pour a coffee and sit down and realize you haven't checked your phone in four hours.
That's Ølhammarvegen 485.
This 1994-built cabin sits at the high end of a small, unhurried community on Elvalandet, a peninsula that juts into the fjord system south of Namsos in Trøndelag. It was extended in 2007 and has been looked after with real care since — not the performative kind where everything's been repainted to sell, but the practical kind where things work. The boathouse went up in 2022. Solar panels were added the same year. A new gas water heater replaced the old one. Small, deliberate investments over time, which is exactly how Norwegians tend to treat a cabin they actually use.
The approach itself sets the mood. You park on the west side of the road — there's a dedicated spot — and walk a roughly 150-metre footpath up to the property. It sounds minor, but that short walk does something. By the time you reach the door, you've already left most of your daily life behind. The cabin sits well clear of its neighbours, with enough distance between plots that you rarely hear anyone else. Privacy here isn't a marketing word. It's just the physical layout of the place.
Inside, 78 square metres of living space is organized around an open plan that keeps things light. Two bedrooms handle a family or a couple with guests easily. There are two separate living areas — one that tends toward relaxed evenings, one that's better for card games and board games when the rain comes in off the fjord, which it does a few times each summer with theatrical commitment. The kitchen was recently upgraded and looks directly onto the water. Cooking here is not a chore you do while everyone else enjoys themselves outside. It's a position people actually compete for.
The terrace is 50 square metres. That's not a rounding error — it's genuinely large, the kind of outdoor space where you can have six people eating at a table, two kids lying in the sun reading, and still have room to pace around with your morning coffee. When the summer days run from early morning to near midnight, you'll use every square metre of it.
Down at the waterline, the 2022 boathouse changes the practical equation considerably. Storage for a small boat and gear, a place to tinker, somewhere to sit when the weather turns uncertain but you still want to be near the water. Separate from the main cabin, there's also a roughly 10-square-metre outbuilding with an outdoor toilet, storage, and a generator room — the traditional Norwegian hytte infrastructure that allows the place to function cleanly off-grid for extended stays.
And off-grid is genuinely viable here. The solar panel system handles the basics without fuss. Water comes via a storage tank. The incineration toilet in the main bathroom — added in 2007 along with a shower and vanity — means no septic complications. The wood stove heats the cabin with the kind of warmth that a heat pump simply doesn't replicate. There's something about the ritual of it, the smell of birch smoke, the particular quality of the heat, that makes cold-season visits feel less like endurance and more like the point.
The Ølhammern ferry terminal is only a few kilometres away, and it connects to Jøa — an island that rewards the 20-minute crossing with a slow pace, a lovely coastline suited to kayaking and swimming, local food, and a handful of good spots to eat. Jøa has a 24-hour convenience store and a few pubs; it's not isolated in the inconvenient sense, just quiet in the way that people who buy properties like this one are specifically looking for. Namsos itself is around 30 kilometres by road — a straight shot to full supermarkets, hardware stores, medical services, and one of the better live music scenes in the region. The Namsos Rock City Museum is there, and if you arrive in late summer, the Namsos Blues Festival draws people from across Norway.
The fishing around Elvalandet is taken seriously by the people who know about it. Cod, pollock, sea trout — the fjord is productive, and access from your own boathouse makes the morning easier than you'd imagine. The hiking terrain is immediate and unhysterical: not technical alpine routes, but long coastal walks through quiet forests and along shore paths where you're more likely to encounter a heron than another person. In winter, the landscape becomes something else entirely — snow sits on the fjord islands, the light is low and soft, and the cabin's stove earns its keep.
The plot is leased at 2,000 NOK annually — a straightforward, low-cost arrangement common to this type of Norwegian recreational property. The total usable area including the boathouse and outbuilding comes to 106 square metres. The property is offered at 119,500 EUR, which in the context of the Norwegian recreational property market and its current trajectory represents meaningful value for what's here.
For international buyers considering a vacation home in Norway, Trøndelag is increasingly the region that those tired of the Vestland crowds are discovering. The fjords are real and the infrastructure is honest without being overdeveloped. Property ownership here as a non-resident is straightforward under Norwegian law, and rental income from similar cabins in active leisure areas like this has been steady. Namsos has a small regional airport with connections to Oslo Gardermoen, cutting travel time from most of continental Europe to under four hours door to cabin.
Key features at a glance:
2-bedroom holiday chalet with open-plan living, extended 2007
1 bathroom with shower, vanity, and incineration toilet
78 sqm interior, 106 sqm total usable area including external structures
50 sqm south-facing terrace with panoramic Nufsfjorden views
2022 boathouse with storage and waterside access
2022 solar panel system for off-grid energy independence
New gas water heater for reliable hot water supply
Wood-burning stove as primary heating source
Separate 10 sqm outbuilding with generator room and outdoor toilet
Leased plot, annual fee 2,000 NOK
150-metre footpath from road parking ensures genuine seclusion
A few kilometres from Ølhammern ferry to Jøa island
30 km from Namsos with full services, airport, and ferry connections
Outstanding sea fishing and coastal hiking from the property
Move-in ready condition, well maintained throughout
If you want to understand what this cabin feels like before making any decisions, the best thing to do is talk to someone who has been there. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or to get answers to the practical questions — ownership structure, ferry schedules, rental management options, or anything else you need. A property at this price point, with this location and these upgrades, doesn't stay available for long in the Norwegian market.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 78m²
- Price per m²
- €1,532
- Garden size
- 0m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Chalet
- Energy label
Unknown
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