2-Bed Swedish Holiday Home with Forest Edge Garden, 700m from the Sea – Söråker



Våle 210, 861 94 Söråker, Timrå kommun, Sweden, Söråker (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 46m² Floor area
€60,750
Country home
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
46m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step onto the sheltered deck on an August morning and the air already smells of pine resin and salt. The Gulf of Bothnia is less than a ten-minute walk through the trees. Somewhere behind the house, a woodpecker is working its way up a spruce. This is Söråker — quiet in the very best sense, and closer to everything than you'd expect.
Söråker sits in Timrå municipality, roughly 40 kilometres north of Sundsvall along Sweden's High Coast corridor. This stretch of the Norrland coastline doesn't get the same international noise as Gotland or Dalarna, but Swedes who know it guard it fiercely. The summers here are genuinely warm, the light stretches well past ten in the evening, and the sea at Klingerfjärden is calm enough for children but cold enough to make you feel alive. In the winters — quiet, snowbound, birch trees turned to white sculpture — the same roads that carry cyclists in July carry cross-country skiers in January. The rhythm shifts completely between seasons, and that's half the appeal.
The house itself was built in 1980 and sits on a 1,620-square-metre lot that backs directly onto forest. Forty-six square metres of interior space sounds modest until you're inside and realize the layout wastes nothing. Two bedrooms, a living room anchored by a wood-burning stove, and a kitchen with a proper dining area. The stove is the kind of detail that matters in October, when the evenings drop fast and you want something that heats a room the old-fashioned way — not just a thermostat click, but actual fire behind glass, the smell of birch logs, a reason to stay inside a little longer. The kitchen is set up for real cooking, not just reheating, with enough storage to stock for a week without the place feeling cluttered.
Outside is where this property earns its keep. There's a covered patio off the main entrance and a larger sheltered deck that catches the afternoon light — two different moods, two different times of day. Eat dinner on the deck while the sun slides sideways through the pines at nine in the evening, then move inside when the temperature finally dips. The garden is open, grassy, and easy to manage, bordered by the forest on one side. Kids have room to run. Adults have room to do nothing, which is harder to find than it sounds.
That forest backing is genuinely useful. Come late July, the ground under the spruces starts producing chanterelles — golden, faintly apricot-scented, the kind you slice and fry in butter the same evening. August brings blueberries. September, lingonberries and, if you know where to look, ceps the size of a child's fist. This isn't a selling point dressed up in brochure language — it's a normal Tuesday evening activity for anyone living along this part of the Norrland coast.
The 700 metres to the sea is an easy, flat walk. There are no dramatic cliffs here, just a quiet shoreline where the water warms up enough by mid-June for swimming and stays swimmable through August. Local fishing — pike perch and perch in the inlets, sea trout closer to the river mouths — is a serious pastime rather than a novelty. Rent a rowboat from one of the nearby jetties or bring kayaks; the coastline north toward Härnösand is good paddling country, with islands you can stop on for lunch and not see another person all afternoon.
The property includes two additional cabins on the lot. One is wired with electricity and furnished as a guest room — genuinely useful when family visits, so the main house doesn't feel squeezed. The other serves as storage for outdoor gear, bikes, firewood. Practical. Unromantic. But exactly what you need when you actually own a place rather than just rent one for a week.
Fiber-optic internet runs to the house, which matters more than people admit when buying a second home. Remote work weeks in summer, school holidays stretched longer than they'd otherwise be — having a real connection rather than a mobile hotspot changes how the property gets used.
A bus stop sits right outside the property with direct service into Sundsvall. That means you don't need a car on days when you don't want one, and it means the city — with its restaurants along Storgatan, the Kulturmagasinet museum by the waterfront, the Sidsjön nature reserve for trail runs — is accessible without planning a production. Sundsvall Airport handles connections to Stockholm Arlanda, and from Arlanda the rest of Europe opens up. For international buyers flying in from elsewhere in Europe, the logistics are simpler than the postcode might suggest.
The Swedish property market in areas like Timrå has remained stable and genuinely accessible compared to coastal markets further south. Properties with forest lots and sea proximity at this price point are not common. For buyers from countries with warmer climates who want a northern European counterpoint — somewhere cool in summer, properly cold in winter, genuinely wild outside the back door — the value calculus here is hard to argue with. Sweden's process for foreign property ownership is straightforward, with no restrictions for EU citizens and well-established routes for non-EU buyers working through a Swedish bank.
Key features at a glance:
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom across 46 sqm of well-maintained living space
- Wood-burning stove in the living room for year-round warmth
- Covered patio plus larger sheltered deck facing the afternoon sun
- 1,620 sqm lot with open garden and direct forest boundary
- 700m walk to the Gulf of Bothnia coastline and swimming
- Forest access for chanterelle, blueberry, and lingonberry foraging
- Separate guest cabin with electricity — sleeps additional visitors
- Storage cabin for bikes, kayaks, and outdoor gear
- Fiber-optic internet throughout
- Bus stop directly outside with service to Sundsvall city centre
- 10 minutes to local shops, cafes, and restaurants
- Built 1980, maintained in good condition, move-in ready
- Full utilities: running water, shower, WC with three-chamber septic system, laundry room
- Strong rental potential given summer demand along the High Coast
If you've been looking for a Swedish holiday home that actually connects you to the landscape rather than just sitting near it, this property in Söråker is worth your attention. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing — summers book up fast, and this won't stay available long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 46m²
- Price per m²
- €1,321
- Garden size
- 1620m²
- 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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