2-Bed Lake Mälaren Holiday Home on Märsön Island, Enköping – 200m from Water



Gäddvägen 35, Märsön, 745 92 Enköping, Sweden, Enköping (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 67m² Floor area
€200,800
Country home
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
67m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The smell hits you first — pine resin warming in the morning sun, a faint trace of lake water carried on the breeze from Mälaren. You're standing on the south-facing patio at Gäddvägen 35, coffee in hand, watching light fracture across the water through the birch trees, and it takes about four minutes to feel like you've been here your whole life. That's the kind of place Märsön is.
Märsön is a small island just outside Enköping, roughly 75 kilometres west of Stockholm. Not famous, not overrun with summer tourists, not the subject of glossy weekend magazine spreads. That's exactly the point. The people who find their way here tend to come back year after year, eventually buying a little red house with a garden, a rowboat, and a long list of nothing urgent to do. This two-bedroom holiday home on Gäddvägen is the kind of property those people fight over when it finally comes to market.
The plot itself covers 1,575 square metres — a genuinely generous footprint on an island where land this size doesn't come up often. There's a mature garden with room to grow tomatoes, set up a badminton net, or simply leave as the slightly wild green sanctuary it already is. The patio catches sun from mid-morning right through to evening, which in Swedish summer means you're outside until past nine o'clock, long after the light turns that particular shade of gold that makes everyone reach for their phone cameras.
Inside, the 67-square-metre main house is single-storey and well laid out. Four rooms — living area, two bedrooms, and a flexible fourth space that works as a home office, a bunk room for kids, or a proper guest room depending on the week's visitors. The kitchen was renovated in 2017 and still feels fresh: clean cabinetry, functional appliances, no fussiness. In the sitting room, a wood-burning stove installed in 2024 changes the whole mood on a rainy September evening. Get a fire going, pull a blanket off the armchair, listen to the rain on the roof. A heat pump fitted in 2025 means you're not limited to July and August — this house is genuinely comfortable into autumn and usable in early spring, which opens up the Swedish shoulder seasons that most summer cabin owners miss entirely.
The windows are big. That matters here, because what's outside those windows — garden, birch canopy, glimpses of Mälaren — is the whole reason you're here. The house lets the outside in without you having to do anything about it.
Then there's the guest cottage. Around 30 square metres, separate from the main house, fitted with a kitchenette and a basic toilet. This is the feature that transforms a two-bedroom holiday home into something genuinely flexible. Visiting in-laws get their own front door. A teenage kid gets independence. You get uninterrupted mornings. Some owners use it as a year-round creative studio or a place to take work calls away from family chaos. The cottage doesn't appear in the headline square footage of the main house, but it absolutely appears in the day-to-day quality of your visits.
Lake Mälaren is Sweden's third-largest lake and one of the most historically significant bodies of water in the country — Viking trade routes, medieval castle islands, water so clear in the right spots that you can see the bottom at three metres. At Märsön, you're 200 metres from the shoreline. There are established swimming spots within easy walking distance along the island's edge, and the possibility of securing a boat berth nearby opens up everything from early-morning fishing runs to weekend trips across Mälaren to Västerås or even out toward the islands closer to Stockholm. Buy a secondhand aluminium boat and suddenly you're living an entirely different kind of Swedish summer.
Come winter, the island quiets to something close to silence. Ice fishing on Mälaren is a genuine local activity — not a tourist gimmick — and the snowshoeing and cross-country ski trails around Enköping's broader municipality are accessible within a short drive. Enköping itself, ten minutes by car, is a proper small Swedish city: good supermarkets, a covered market, the Rosa Trädgården (one of the most visited rose gardens in Sweden, surprisingly excellent in June), a handful of solid restaurants including reliable Thai and Italian options on the pedestrian street, and all the practical infrastructure you need without the Stockholm price tag.
For international buyers approaching this as a second home in Europe, Sweden offers a transparent property ownership process with no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing residential property. Legal costs are predictable, the land registry system is among the most reliable on the continent, and the municipality around Enköping has seen consistent demand for lakeside leisure properties over the past decade as remote-working professionals from Stockholm look to own rather than rent their summer base. A holiday home of this type, with a guest cottage and this size of plot, has genuine rental appeal during peak summer weeks if you choose to offset ownership costs — Märsön properties list regularly on Swedish short-term rental platforms at rates that reflect the island's scarcity value.
The property is in good condition with no deferred maintenance. The 2025 heat pump installation alone signals that this is a house someone has been genuinely investing in, not just keeping presentable for a sale.
Key features at a glance:
- 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom country home, 67 sqm on Märsön island, Enköping municipality
- Separate guest cottage approx. 30 sqm with kitchenette and toilet
- 1,575 sqm plot with south-facing patio and established garden
- 200 metres from Lake Mälaren shoreline with swimming access
- Possibility to secure a private boat berth
- Renovated kitchen (2017), new wood-burning stove (2024), heat pump installed (2025)
- Single-storey layout, four flexible rooms, large windows throughout
- Usable across extended seasons beyond summer
- 10 minutes by car to central Enköping, ~75km west of Stockholm
- Transparent Swedish property ownership process, open to international buyers
- Strong short-term rental market for lakeside holiday homes in the region
- Excellent access to boating, fishing, swimming, and winter ice activities on Mälaren
- Quiet, residential island community without tourist overcrowding
Owning a vacation home in Sweden used to mean knowing someone who knew someone. Märsön island properties at this price point, with this land area, a guest cottage, and lake access within a five-minute walk, do not sit on the market long. If you want to see it in person or have questions about the purchase process as an international buyer, reach out through Homestra today — the first viewing slots typically fill fast once a listing like this goes live.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 67m²
- Price per m²
- €2,997
- Garden size
- 1575m²
- 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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