2-Bed Island Retreat on Sundholmen with Guest House, Sea Views & Boat Berth – Norrtälje Archipelago



Sundholmen 38, Sundholmen, Norrtälje kommun, Sweden, Norrtälje (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 55m² Floor area
€262,000
Country home
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
55m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The ferry horn sounds somewhere out on the water, and you're already halfway through your morning coffee on the deck — the one with the birch tree growing straight through the middle of it, branches overhead, Baltic light filtering through. That's the particular kind of morning that Humlegården on Sundholmen delivers, almost every single day from late April through September. This is archipelago life as the Swedes have quietly perfected it over generations, and now it's available to international buyers ready to claim their piece of Roslagen.
Sundholmen sits just off Håtö in the Norrtälje archipelago, roughly 90 kilometres north of Stockholm. The island is reached by private boat from the mainland parking area at Håtö — a crossing of only a few minutes, but one that instantly shifts the pace of everything. Your car stays behind. The noise stays behind. What you arrive to is a landscape of granite outcrops, mixed forest, meadow grass blowing in off the sea, and a community of summer cottages that has barely changed in feel since the mid-20th century.
The property itself is called Humlegården — hops garden, in Swedish — and the name gives you a sense of its character. There's a generosity to the layout. The main house, built in 1987 and added to over the years, sits at the heart of roughly a third of an acre of garden that moves from mown lawn to wilder woodland without any hard edge between them. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen-living room with an open fireplace and a secondary iron stove for the shoulder seasons. It's 55 square metres inside the main house — compact, honest, nothing wasted — but the real living space extends far beyond those walls.
The deck alone changes the equation entirely. Accessed straight from the living room, it wraps around a living tree that punches through the boards and carries on growing above the railing. Eating dinner there on a July evening, with the smell of the sea coming up the slope and the light doing its slow Nordic fade around ten-thirty, is exactly the kind of thing that makes people book their second viewing before they've left the first.
Off the deck, a fully glazed veranda runs along the side of the house, fitted with a wood-burning stove. In October, when the rest of Sweden has put the garden furniture away, this room becomes something extraordinary — leaves pressing against the glass outside, candles lit, the stove going, the sea still just visible through the trees. A workshop sits adjacent and could convert to a proper guest room without much effort.
Separate from the main building, a wooden walkway crosses the lawn to a standalone guest cottage — private enough for visitors to feel independent, close enough that nobody feels exiled. There's also a small outbuilding called Tårtbiten, which translates loosely as "the cake slice," a name that will make sense the moment you see the roofline. It has a sleeping loft that children tend to claim immediately, a new terrace, and an outdoor shower with hot water — genuinely useful, not just decorative. A little greenhouse called Grådasset sits partway up the hillside with a direct view of the water, currently used for growing plants, equally viable as a quiet reading spot.
The garden holds a woodshed stocked with around five cubic metres of split firewood, an old outhouse repurposed for storage, and enough open lawn for kubb tournaments, badminton, or just lying in a hammock doing absolutely nothing. The property comes with a dedicated mainland parking space and a private boat berth at Håtö — both are included in the asking price, which matters more than it sounds when you're buying on a car-free island.
Norrtälje town is fifteen minutes by road from Håtö, and it punches well above its size for a Swedish coastal town of around 12,000 people. The old harbour area along the Norrtäljeån river fills up with wooden boats in summer, and the weekly outdoor market on Lilla Brogatan runs from June through August selling smoked fish, new potatoes, wild strawberries, and locally made ceramics. The restaurant Sjöäng, a few kilometres outside town, does a seasonal tasting menu that earns the drive. Norrtälje Brewery in the town centre produces some of the best craft beer in Uppland, and their taproom stays open through winter.
For outdoor activity, the options stack up quickly. The waters around Sundholmen are rich in perch, pike, and Baltic herring — local anglers know the rocks off the southern tip of the island are particularly productive in early morning. Swimming from the granite ledges directly accessible from the island is the default summer activity. The trail network across Håtö and the surrounding nature reserve runs to around 20 kilometres of marked paths through pine forest and along coastal clifftop, manageable in a long afternoon or stretched into a full weekend of walking. Kayaking the inner archipelago between Norrtälje and Kapellskär is something you can do at a serious level or very casually indeed, depending on what kind of day you want.
Winter is underrated here. The archipelago freezes in cold years, opening up ice fishing and skating across the bays that are genuinely surreal in their quietness. Norrtälje itself stays lively year-round — there's a functioning cultural life centred on the Pythagoras arts centre and a cinema that programmes more than blockbusters. Stockholm is under 90 minutes by bus from Norrtälje's central station, which means this can genuinely serve as a weekend retreat from the capital, not just a summer escape.
For international buyers looking at the Swedish property market, Roslagen archipelago properties have held their value consistently through market cycles, largely because supply is structurally limited — you cannot build new island properties in protected archipelago zones. Rental demand during July and the first two weeks of August is strong and largely unmet, which makes Humlegården a realistic income-generating asset when you're not in residence. Swedish property law is straightforward for EU and non-EU buyers alike, with no restrictions on foreign ownership of residential property. Ownership costs — council fees, property tax, boat berth fees — are modest by European coastal standards.
The property is in good condition and move-in ready for the upcoming season. No major works are required. There is a working well, and the sanitation system is functional, though prospective buyers should factor in the standard archipelago considerations around water and waste management that apply across this region.
At 262,000 EUR, this is rare access to a genuinely established archipelago property with multiple structures, a private berth, and a full season of outdoor living built in from day one.
Key features at a glance:
- 2-bedroom main house, 55 sqm, built 1987 with later additions
- Open fireplace and secondary iron stove in main living area
- Large wooden deck with tree growing through the boards
- Fully glazed veranda with wood-burning stove, usable year-round
- Separate guest cottage connected by wooden walkway across lawn
- Additional outbuilding "Tårtbiten" with sleeping loft and hot outdoor shower
- Small greenhouse "Grådasset" with sea views on the hillside
- Private boat berth at Håtö mainland jetty included in sale
- Dedicated mainland parking space included
- Woodshed stocked with approximately 5m³ of split firewood
- Island accessible only by private boat — genuinely car-free
- Surrounded by protected archipelago nature reserve
- 15 minutes by road to Norrtälje town centre
- Under 90 minutes to Stockholm by bus
- Strong short-term rental demand throughout July and August
If you're ready to stop reading about archipelago life and start living it, reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing. The boat crossing takes four minutes. What happens after that tends to speak for itself.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 55m²
- Price per m²
- €4,764
- Garden size
- 2201m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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