2-Bed Holiday Home with Guest House & Sauna 550m from the Sea – Herräng, Norrtälje



Mörtvägen 2, Korgil, 763 90 Herräng, Norrtälje, Sweden, Herräng (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 54m² Floor area
€149,500
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
54m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The wood-burning stove is already crackling when you wake up on a Saturday morning in October, and through the big living room windows you can see frost on the grass and mist sitting low over the pines. By 9am you're pulling on boots and walking the 550 metres down to the dock at Korgil, thermos in hand, watching a grey heron stand absolutely still at the water's edge. This is what a second home in the Swedish archipelago actually feels like — unhurried, raw, and genuinely restorative in a way that a week in a hotel never manages to be.
Mörtvägen 2 sits on a generous 2,353 square metre plot in Korgil, a quiet pocket of Norrtälje municipality roughly 90 kilometres north of Stockholm. Herräng itself is the kind of place most Swedes know mainly because of the Herräng Dance Camp — a legendary annual swing dance festival that transforms this sleepy coastal village every July into something quietly electric. The rest of the year, it belongs to the locals, the summer regulars, and anyone sharp enough to have bought a place here before word got out.
The house dates from 1967 and measures 54 square metres — compact, yes, but the layout earns every centimetre. Two bedrooms. A living room anchored by that wood-burning stove. A kitchen big enough to actually cook in, not just heat things up. Large windows pull the garden and the treeline inside, and the open connection between kitchen, dining area, and living room means a household of four or five people can move around each other without friction. On summer evenings the whole ground floor flows out onto the wide wooden deck, where there's room for a proper outdoor table, a gas grill, and still space left over to stretch out on a sun lounger and do absolutely nothing.
The guest house is insulated and usable across all four seasons. That matters more than it might sound. It means your visiting friends or adult children have their own space — real privacy, not just a pull-out sofa — which is honestly what makes extended stays work. It doubles as a home office or creative studio if you happen to be the kind of person who gets work done better surrounded by birch trees than by open-plan offices.
Then there's the wood-fired hot tub. In late August, when the air temperature starts dropping after 8pm but the days are still long, sitting in hot water under a sky shifting from pale gold to deep blue is one of those experiences that makes you feel like you've arranged your life correctly. In January, when the ground is frozen and the stars are properly visible for the first time after the summer's endless white nights, it's even better.
Storage is sorted. Several outbuildings and garden sheds handle everything from kayaks and bicycles to winter firewood and garden tools. The lot itself has mature trees along its edges providing natural screening, open lawn in the middle for the kids or a kitchen garden, and the general sense of a place that has been looked after without being over-manicured.
The sea is a seven-minute walk. Not a metaphorical walk — an actual, flat, easy walk to the water and the boat docks. The Norrtälje archipelago is one of the most beautiful stretches of the Swedish coast, a labyrinth of islands, inlets, and skerries that rewards anyone with access to a small boat. Kayaking, fishing for perch and pike, swimming off granite rocks warmed by the afternoon sun — it's all right there. The area around Herräng and Korgil also sits within reach of several marked hiking trails through coastal forest, and cycling routes that wind past farmsteads and red-painted boathouses.
Norrtälje town, about 30 kilometres south, covers the practical side of life: a proper supermarket, hardware stores, pharmacies, restaurants along the harbour, and a regular bus service. The E18 motorway puts Stockholm within roughly 75 to 80 minutes by car, making this viable as a weekend retreat even for people who can only get away on Friday evenings. Arlanda Airport is about an hour's drive, which matters significantly for international buyers flying in from elsewhere in Europe.
Sweden has a transparent and accessible property market for foreign buyers, with no restrictions on non-residents purchasing real estate. Ownership costs are predictable — annual property tax rates are low by European standards, and the archipelago rental market is strong enough that short-term holiday lets during the peak June-to-August window can generate meaningful income if you choose not to occupy the property year-round. The condition here is good and the property is move-in ready, so you're not walking into a renovation project.
The climate deserves a word too. Summers in Uppland are genuinely warm — July averages around 20 to 22 degrees Celsius, with long daylight hours that stretch past 10pm. Winters are cold and snowy, but with a wood stove, a hot tub, and proximity to frozen sea ice that glows blue in the afternoon light, that stops being a drawback and becomes part of the appeal. Spring arrives fast and dramatic. Autumn turns the birches gold and fills the forest floor with chanterelles and ceps if you know where to look.
Key features at a glance:
- 2-bedroom house, 54 sqm, built 1967, good condition and move-in ready
- Insulated guest house — suitable year-round as extra accommodation or workspace
- Wood-fired hot tub on-site
- Wood-burning stove in the living room
- Large wooden deck off the main living area
- Plot of 2,353 sqm with mature trees, open lawn, and natural screening
- Multiple outbuildings and storage sheds
- 550 metres to the sea and boat docks
- 30km from Norrtälje town with full amenities
- Approx. 90km north of Stockholm, ~1 hour by car
- Arlanda Airport around 60 minutes by car
- Strong summer rental demand in the Norrtälje archipelago
- No restrictions on foreign ownership of Swedish property
- Located near Herräng Dance Camp — July cultural anchor for the area
- Accessible for year-round use across all four Swedish seasons
This is a rare find: a ready-to-use holiday home on Sweden's Stockholm archipelago coast, with genuine character, flexible accommodation, and the kind of setting that makes you stop checking your phone. Whether you're buying as a pure vacation retreat, a family legacy property, or a partly-rented investment, the combination of location, condition, and price makes this one worth moving on quickly.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing — properties at this price point along the Norrtälje coast don't sit on the market for long, especially when they come with a guest house and direct proximity to the water.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 54m²
- Price per m²
- €2,769
- Garden size
- 2353m²
- 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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