2-Bed Lakeside Holiday Home with Private Boathouse on Lake Ljugaren, Rättvik



Born Sjögatan 11, 795 92 Born, Rättviks kommun, Sweden, Rättvik (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 60m² Floor area
€130,700
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
60m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The first morning you wake up here, the sound you hear isn't traffic or neighbours. It's the knock of a wooden boat hull against the dock, and the low call of a loon somewhere out on Lake Ljugaren. Open the window and you catch pine resin on the breeze. That's the daily opening scene at Born Sjögatan 11 — a two-bedroom holiday house in Born, a hamlet so quiet and so green that it takes roughly a day before your shoulders drop back to where they should be.
Born sits about 15 minutes by car from Rättvik in the heart of Dalarna, arguably the most Swedish of all Sweden's provinces. Rättvik is the town on the southern tip of Lake Siljan that hosts Music at Lake Siljan every July — one of Scandinavia's biggest folk and classical music festivals, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to its open-air stages along the water. You're far enough from that summer buzz to sleep through it, and close enough to cycle in for an evening concert and still be back before dark.
The house itself was built in 1945 and covers 60 square metres across three rooms and a kitchen. It's in good condition — not a project, not a gut renovation. The layout is tight in the best Nordic sense: nothing wasted, everything considered. Large windows face the garden and draw in long Dalarna light, the kind that in June stays golden until 10 at night and makes you push dinner later and later just to stay in it. The kitchen is practical and honest, ready to handle a midsommar feast or a simple plate of gravlax and crispbread.
Below the main floor, there's a basement of around 55 square metres — currently unfinished, which is the interesting part. That space could become a proper guest bedroom and bathroom, a workshop for anyone who does woodworking or boat maintenance, or a cold cellar for cloudberry jam and home-cured meats. Dalarna winters are real — temperatures regularly drop to -15°C in January — and having that extra below-ground square footage to develop over time gives this property genuine flexibility that a finished holiday cabin simply doesn't offer.
The plot stretches to 1,474 square metres. There's lawn, there are mature birch and spruce trees, and there's a kitchen garden area waiting for whoever wants to grow dill, potatoes, and the strawberries that Swedish summers make absurdly good. Children have room to disappear into the garden for hours. Adults have room for a fire pit, a hammock strung between the birches, and a long table for midsommar dinners that spill from eight in the evening well past midnight.
Then there's the boathouse. It sits directly on Lake Ljugaren and it is, without question, the thing that makes this property what it is. Having your own private boathouse on a 15-kilometre lake is genuinely rare — most buyers searching for a second home in Sweden spend years looking for exactly this. In July and August the lake water reaches around 20°C, clean enough to swim straight from the dock, and the fishing for perch and pike is serious enough that you'll want a rod in the boathouse alongside the kayaks. Come February, the ice on Ljugaren typically reaches 30 to 40 centimetres, thick enough for snowmobiling, ice fishing, and skating routes that stretch for kilometres in absolute silence broken only by the scrape of blades.
On the property, there's also an Attefallsåtgärd outbuilding — in Swedish planning law, an Attefalls structure can be developed under simplified permits, making it straightforward to convert into a proper guest cottage, a home office with lake views, or accommodation that could bring in rental income during peak summer weeks. For international buyers unfamiliar with Swedish building regulations: Attefalls rules are well-established and relatively buyer-friendly, and a local architect in Rättvik can walk you through conversion options in an afternoon.
The neighbouring village of Ingels has a preschool and a primary school through grade five. Rättvik itself, 15 minutes away, has a hospital, supermarkets, the famous Rättvik Church jutting out on its medieval wooden pier into Lake Siljan, and the Dalhalla amphitheatre — a former limestone quarry turned open-air opera venue that hosts acts ranging from ABBA tribute concerts to full opera productions each summer. The drive into Rättvik along Road 70 through forest and farmland is the kind of route that makes you feel like you've genuinely left the rest of the world behind.
Dalarna's seasons are worth understanding because they're part of what you're buying. Spring arrives fast in May — the ice breaks on the lakes, the birches go from bare to full leaf in about two weeks, and every weekend someone is lighting a bonfire for Valborg. Summer is short but fierce: 18 hours of daylight, warm lake water, outdoor markets in Rättvik selling handmade Dalarna horses, flatbread, and local cheeses. Autumn turns the forests around Born into a theatre of orange and copper, and the mushroom and lingonberry picking in September is reason enough to own a house here. Then winter settles in properly, and the region becomes something else entirely — ski trails at Rättvik Skiing Center, cross-country loops maintained through the forests, and the ice road traditions that go back centuries on Siljan.
For international buyers, Sweden's property market is open to foreign nationals with no restrictions on purchase. The transaction process is handled through a licensed estate agent and a bank-appointed conveyancer, and the paperwork is comparatively straightforward. Property taxes in Sweden are capped and modest. Rental income from holiday properties is taxable but with a generous annual deduction, and the Dalarna summer rental market — particularly for properties with lake access — is consistently strong, with peak-season weekly rates for boathouse properties regularly reaching levels that cover months of ownership costs.
At EUR 130,700, this is entry-level pricing for a holiday home with direct lake access and a private boathouse in one of Sweden's most visited inland regions. Properties like this, on Ljugaren with intact boathouses, rarely sit on the market long.
Key features at a glance:
- 2-bedroom holiday house in good condition, 60 sqm, built 1945
- Private boathouse with direct access to 15km Lake Ljugaren
- Generous 1,474 sqm plot with mature trees and garden space
- 55 sqm unfinished basement with strong development potential
- Attefalls outbuilding suitable for guest cottage or home office conversion
- Four-season usability: swimming and kayaking in summer, ice fishing and snowmobiling in winter
- 15 minutes from Rättvik, Lake Siljan, and Dalhalla amphitheatre
- Walking distance from forest trails with mushroom picking and wildlife
- Nearby Ingels village with preschool and primary school
- No foreign ownership restrictions for international buyers
- Strong summer rental market for lake-access properties in Dalarna
- Access to Rättvik Skiing Center and cross-country ski trails
- Annual folk music and summer festivals within easy driving distance
- Priced competitively for a boathouse property in this region
- Move-in ready with scope to expand and personalise over time
If you've been thinking about a second home in Scandinavia — somewhere that works across all four seasons, where the nature is genuinely wild, and where you can pull a boat out of your own dock on a Tuesday morning in August — this is the property to see first. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request the full documentation package. Summers in Dalarna go fast. So do properties like this one.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 60m²
- Price per m²
- €2,178
- Garden size
- 1474m²
- 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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