2-Bed Lakefront Holiday Home in Storuman with South-Facing Veranda & Fiber Internet



Pauträsk 308, 923 98 Storuman, Sweden, Storuman (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 80m² Floor area
€79,500
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
80m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step out onto the veranda at six in the morning, coffee in hand, and watch the mist peel back from the lake's surface like a slow exhale. The water is still. A pair of loons cut across the far shore. This is what you came north for.
Pauträsk 308 sits right at the water's edge in Storuman municipality, Västerbotten — one of the least-visited and most rewarding corners of Swedish Lapland. The house faces south, which up here at 65 degrees north is no small thing. You get sun from the moment it clears the treeline until it drops behind the ridge well after nine in summer. The light lands on the lake and stays there, shifting from white to amber to something almost copper. You won't run out of things to look at.
The house itself is 80 square meters — honest, well-kept, and without pretension. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen and living room that open into each other the way a practical Swedish interior should. A wood-burning stove anchors the living space; light it on an October evening when the birch trees have gone gold and the temperature drops fast, and the room feels genuinely warm in a way that no radiator replicates. Large windows pull the lake inside — on grey days the water turns graphite and choppy, on clear days it goes deep blue. Either way, you're watching it.
The glazed veranda is arguably where you'll spend most of your time from May through September. It pushes the outdoor season out by several weeks in both directions, letting you eat breakfast outside in April when there's still frost on the grass, or linger over dinner in late September without reaching for a jacket. It's not a feature you appreciate in the abstract — it's one you notice every single day.
The plot runs to 1,946 square meters, with direct lake access. You can swim off the bank in July when the shallow water warms up faster than you'd expect this far north. You can fish for perch and pike from the shore or from a small boat. In winter, when the lake freezes solid — usually by December and sometimes as late as April — the ice becomes its own landscape. Ice fishing is serious business in Storuman, and the locals treat it as a social occasion rather than a solitary pursuit. You'll figure that out quickly.
For those who need to stay connected, the property already has fiber optic internet installed. Working remotely from a lakefront house in northern Sweden sounds like a fantasy right up until the moment you're actually doing it, and plenty of people in this region have made exactly that choice. The heat pump keeps running costs manageable through winter, and the connection to municipal water removes the maintenance headaches that come with a private well.
Storuman itself is a small town of roughly 2,500 people — enough infrastructure to matter, not so much that it crowds the roads. The E12 highway connects it to Umeå in about three hours and to the Norwegian border at Mo i Rana in roughly the same direction west. Hemavan Airport, about 80 kilometers up the road, has scheduled flights to Stockholm Arlanda that take just under two hours. Getting here is easier than the map makes it look.
The surrounding area gives outdoor people more than they can reasonably fit into a two-week stay. The Vindel River runs close by — one of Europe's last free-flowing large rivers, completely undammed, and world-class for fly fishing. The Marsfjällen mountains to the northwest offer hiking trails that most Europeans have never heard of, which is precisely their appeal. In winter, Hemavan-Tärnaby ski area — consistently ranked among Sweden's best — is under an hour's drive. The runs there are long, the lift queues short, and the après-ski involves reindeer stew at the mountain lodge rather than overpriced cocktails.
Foraging is legitimate recreation here, not a trend. Cloudberry bogs open up in late July and the picking is extraordinary if you know where to go — your neighbors will tell you, eventually, if you ask nicely. Lingonberries carpet the forest floor in August. In autumn, elk roam openly through the birch forest at dusk. The wildlife calendar runs continuously.
For international buyers, Storuman represents a corner of the Swedish property market that remains genuinely accessible. At this price point, you are acquiring a south-facing lakefront property in good condition with fiber connectivity and a large private plot — the kind of combination that commands multiples of this figure in Dalarna or the Stockholm archipelago. Sweden maintains straightforward property ownership rules for EU and non-EU buyers alike, with no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing real estate. Transaction costs are low by European standards, and the annual property tax framework is predictable. For those considering the rental income angle, demand for short-term holiday lets in the Storuman area has grown steadily as remote-work tourism and outdoor adventure travel push further into Norrland.
The property is move-in ready. There is no renovation project waiting for you, no structural surprises, no deferred maintenance spiral to manage from abroad. You can buy it, furnish it over a long weekend, and start using it.
Key features at a glance:
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom across 80 square meters of well-maintained interior space
- Direct south-facing lakefront position on a 1,946 sqm private plot
- Glazed veranda extending the usable outdoor season from spring through autumn
- Wood-burning stove for winter warmth and ambiance
- Heat pump for efficient year-round heating
- Fiber optic internet already installed — remote work ready
- Municipal water connection for reliable, low-maintenance supply
- Direct lake access for swimming, fishing, and winter ice activities
- Within 80km of Hemavan-Tärnaby ski area, one of Sweden's top winter sport destinations
- Close to the Vindel River, protected as a UNESCO-associated free-flowing river and prime fly-fishing destination
- Hemavan Airport with direct Stockholm Arlanda flights roughly 80km away
- E12 highway access linking to Umeå and the Norwegian coast
- Foreign ownership permitted with no restrictions — clean title, straightforward purchase process
- Strong short-term rental demand in the broader Storuman outdoor tourism market
- Priced well below comparable lakefront properties in southern Swedish holiday regions
This is a property that rewards the buyer who actually wants to use it. Not as a status symbol, not as a project — as a place to slow down, go outside, and let northern Sweden do what it does best. The lake will be frozen by the time you close on it if you move quickly. That is not a drawback. That is the first thing you get to experience.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request the full property documentation. Properties at this location and price point move. The lake won't wait indefinitely.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 80m²
- Price per m²
- €994
- Garden size
- 1946m²
- 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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