2-Bed Holiday Home with 2021 Guest House & Private Garden in Elinelund, Malmö



Linneuspromenaden 117, Elinelund, 218 35 Malmö, Sweden, Bara (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 40m² Floor area
€150,000
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
40m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Saturday morning on Linneuspromenaden and the neighborhood is just waking up. Someone's brewing coffee two gardens over, you can smell it. The fruit trees in your 410-square-meter plot are doing their thing—dappled light on the wooden deck, a blackbird working through the lawn—and you've got nowhere to be. That's the particular pleasure of owning a place like this in Elinelund, a quietly residential pocket of Malmö that most visitors never find but locals never leave.
The house itself is compact and honest. Forty square meters of main living space, built in 1960 and kept in genuinely good condition over the decades—not frozen in amber, but updated where it matters. Large windows in the living room pull the garden right into the interior, so even on grey Swedish autumn days the space doesn't feel closed in. The kitchen is functional and properly equipped, the kind where you can actually cook rather than just heat things up. Two bedrooms handle a couple or a small family without drama. One bathroom. Everything you need, nothing you don't.
What lifts this property well above comparable holiday homes at this price point is the guest house completed in 2021. Fifteen square meters, finished to a high standard, giving visiting friends or family genuine privacy rather than an air mattress in the living room. It works as a creative studio, a work-from-anywhere office during shoulder season, or simply overflow space when the cousins arrive in July. Having a self-contained outbuilding on a plot this size in Malmö is not something you find every day.
The conservatory earns its keep across every season. In June it's where you eat breakfast before the day heats up. In October it's where you watch the garden turn colour with a glass of something warm. Swedes have a particular genius for extending the outdoor season through good design, and this room captures that instinct precisely.
Elinelund sits in the Fosie district, roughly three kilometres south of Malmö's city centre—close enough to cycle in, far enough to genuinely decompress. Grab a bike and you're on the Sundspromenaden coastal path within fifteen minutes, a flat waterfront route that traces the Öresund strait toward Limhamn in one direction and the dramatic Turning Torso skyline in the other. The sea itself is 2.8 kilometres away. In summer the beaches at Sibbarp draw Malmö locals for swimming and evening walks; in winter the same coastline has a stark, steel-grey drama that the Swedes have a word for and the rest of us just stand and stare at.
Malmö's food culture has quietly become one of Scandinavia's more interesting. The Möllevångstorget market square—about twenty minutes by bike—is genuinely multicultural, full of cheap, excellent produce and street food that reflects the city's diverse population. For a sit-down meal, Davidshallstorg and the streets around it have accumulated a run of restaurants serious enough to warrant a special trip: Lyran for natural wine and Nordic small plates, Bastard for nose-to-tail cooking that's been pulling crowds for years. The central Saluhallen food hall covers everything in between.
Culturally, Malmö punches hard for its size. The Moderna Museet Malmö occupies a repurposed textile factory near the harbour and runs genuinely ambitious contemporary art exhibitions. The medieval Malmöhus Castle—yes, a moat, yes, it's real—houses several museums including a natural history collection that children find completely absorbing. In late summer the Malmö Festival spreads across the city for a week with free concerts, food stalls, and the particular energy of a city that knows how to celebrate the short Scandinavian summer.
Getting here from the rest of Europe is easier than many buyers expect. Copenhagen Airport is forty minutes by train, with the Öresund Bridge connecting the two cities in a crossing that still feels slightly cinematic however many times you've done it. Direct flights from London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and most major European hubs land at Copenhagen daily. For those keeping an eye on second home investment potential, Malmö's continued development as a city—new neighbourhoods, a growing tech sector, the planned Fehmarn Belt tunnel linking Scandinavia to Germany—gives the property market structural support that more overtly touristic Swedish destinations can't claim.
Practical notes for international buyers: Sweden has no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing residential property. The buying process is straightforward by European standards, typically handled through a registered estate agent and a title transfer via Lantmäteriet, the national land registry. Property tax in Sweden is capped and modest relative to many EU countries. Rental income from holiday properties is taxable but benefits from a generous annual deduction—worth discussing with a Swedish tax advisor before purchase.
Key features at a glance:
- 2 bedrooms in main house, 1 bathroom, 40 sqm living area plus 27 sqm biarea
- Self-contained 15 sqm guest house built in 2021, finished to high standard
- 410 sqm private plot with mature fruit trees, lawn, and flower beds
- Spacious wooden deck for outdoor dining and entertaining
- Glass conservatory extending the usable season across autumn and spring
- Practical storage shed for garden tools and bicycles
- 2.8 km to the Öresund coast and Sibbarp beach area
- Cycling distance to Malmö city centre via flat urban bike routes
- 40 minutes by train to Copenhagen Airport via Öresund Bridge
- Good condition throughout, with thoughtful updates by current owners
- 410 sqm lot providing genuine garden space and outdoor privacy
- Quiet, well-maintained residential street in sought-after Elinelund
- No restrictions on foreign national ownership under Swedish property law
- Strong rental appeal as a Malmö holiday home for Scandinavian and European short-break visitors
A property at this price in a city with Malmö's trajectory doesn't stay available long. If you want to walk the Sundspromenaden at sunrise, eat a proper smörgåsbord in your own garden on midsommar, and have a genuinely private retreat that's forty minutes from one of Europe's busiest international airports, this is the one to move on.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request the full property documentation. The fruit trees won't wait forever.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 40m²
- Price per m²
- €3,750
- Garden size
- 410m²
- 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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