2-Bed Holiday Home with Guest Cottages & Sea 850m Away in Björnösund, Norrtälje



Björnösund södra 2G, 761 98 Norrtälje, Sweden, Norrtälje (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 77m² Floor area
€169,500
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
77m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
You wake up on a Saturday morning in July, coffee in hand, and step out onto the covered veranda. The air smells of cut grass and pine. Somewhere down the lane, a neighbour is dragging a kayak toward the water. The sea is 850 metres away. You could be there in ten minutes — or you could sit right here, do absolutely nothing, and count that as a perfect morning too.
That's the particular pleasure of this two-bedroom holiday home at Björnösund södra 2G in Norrtälje. It's not trying to impress you. It just quietly delivers everything that makes a Swedish summer house worth having.
The property sits on a generous 2,032-square-metre plot that feels like it belongs to another era — mature fruit trees, thick hedging that keeps the outside world outside, wide lawns that are made for barefoot afternoons and long Midsummer evenings. The main house comes in at 77 square metres, which sounds modest until you're actually in it and realise the open-plan kitchen and living room have been arranged in a way that makes the space work harder than its footprint suggests. There's a dining area, a proper sofa corner, and a fireplace that becomes the gravitational centre of the room the moment October rolls in and the archipelago wind picks up. A set of doors leads straight off the living room onto the veranda — covered, so you can eat outside even when the weather is being difficult, which in this part of Sweden it occasionally is.
Two bedrooms in the main house, a full bathroom with shower, and then the real surprise: a large family room that can be split into one or two additional sleeping spaces depending on how many people you've invited for the weekend. And you will invite people. That's the thing about a place like this — the layout almost demands it.
Beyond the main building, there are two separate guest cottages, both with electricity, giving you proper overflow accommodation without the awkward sofa-bed situation. If you're buying this as a second home and want to run it as a rental during the weeks you're not here, those cottages change the maths considerably. There's also a workshop building — useful whether your hobby is boat maintenance, woodworking, or simply needing somewhere to put everything that doesn't belong in a house. Multiple parking spaces round out the practicalities.
Björnösund itself is one of those holiday communities that feels genuinely earned. This isn't a developer-built resort with a logo and a management company. It's a place where people have been coming for generations, where the local association still organises the Midsummer pole-raising in a field near the water and people actually turn up for it. The community association is active, the atmosphere is social without being intrusive, and the area has developed exactly the kind of quiet infrastructure that makes summer life easy: a grocery store nearby, a restaurant within reach, and strong transport connections via the E18 into Norrtälje town centre.
Norrtälje itself, about 25 kilometres south, is worth knowing. It's the gateway to the Stockholm archipelago — the northern section, which is less visited than the southern islands and all the better for it. The town has a harbour lined with wooden buildings, a solid farmers' market during summer months where you can buy smoked fish straight off the boat, and a relaxed pace that Stockholm's inner suburbs have long since abandoned. Stockholm is roughly 80 kilometres away, Arlanda Airport closer to 65. The access is real: you can fly in on a Friday evening and be sitting on this veranda with a glass of wine before nine o'clock.
Summer here runs long and luminous. June through August brings long daylight hours — genuinely long, as in it's still light at ten-thirty — warm enough to swim comfortably in the Baltic, warm enough to eat outside most evenings. The archipelago swimming spots closest to Björnösund are clean, uncrowded compared to anything near Stockholm, and varied enough that you won't tire of them. Kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing for perch and pike, cycling the quiet roads through the forest — the outdoor calendar fills itself.
The house was built in 1970 and is in good condition. It has been looked after rather than left to slowly become a project. For an international buyer coming from outside Sweden, that matters. You won't be walking into a renovation. You'll be walking into a place you can use immediately, adapt gradually, and hold for the long term as both a personal retreat and a sound asset in one of Sweden's most consistently popular holiday home markets.
Sweden's property purchase process is generally straightforward for EU citizens, and legal costs are low compared to most of Western Europe. The stamp duty equivalent — lagfart — sits at 1.5% for private buyers. Annual property tax is nominal. If you choose to rent the property out during periods of non-use, Sweden's rental income rules allow for a tax-free threshold before income is assessed, making the numbers work for owners who want to offset running costs.
Key features at a glance:
- 2-bedroom holiday home plus large convertible family room in Björnösund, Norrtälje, Sweden
- 77 square metres of living space on a 2,032-square-metre mature garden plot
- Two separate guest cottages with electricity — ideal for rental income or extended family stays
- Wood-burning fireplace in the open-plan living and kitchen area
- Covered veranda directly accessible from the living room
- 850 metres to the sea, with swimming spots, boat docks, and kayak launch points
- Workshop/storage building on the property
- Multiple car parking spaces on the plot
- Active local community association with organised events including Midsummer celebrations
- Grocery store, restaurant, and E18 transport connections within easy reach
- Norrtälje town centre approximately 25 kilometres away
- Stockholm approximately 80 kilometres, Arlanda Airport approximately 65 kilometres
- Good condition — move-in ready for the coming season
- Strong vacation rental potential given layout, guest cottages, and archipelago location
- Priced at 169,500 EUR, representing genuine value for the Stockholm archipelago region
This is the kind of second home that gets used. Not a showpiece, not a project — a real summer house in a place where summer still means something, with enough space to bring the whole family and enough peace to actually rest. If you're looking for a vacation home in Sweden or a holiday property in the Stockholm archipelago that you can step into immediately and enjoy for decades, this one deserves a serious look.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to get more information on the purchase process for international buyers. These well-located archipelago properties move quickly, particularly in spring when the season is still ahead of you.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 77m²
- Price per m²
- €2,201
- Garden size
- 2032m²
- 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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