3-Bed Country Home with Guest House & Boat Berth, 300m from the Sea in Hamburgsund



Hamnebuktsvägen 18, 457 46 Hamburgsund, Tanums kommun, Sweden, Hamburgsund (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 162m² Floor area
€725,000
Country home
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
162m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The first thing you notice on a July morning here is the light. Not the pale, apologetic kind—the full, wide-open West Coast Swedish kind that bounces off the water somewhere beyond the treeline and fills every room before you've made your coffee. By eight o'clock, the kayakers are already out on the inlet below Hamnebuktsvägen. By nine, you can smell someone grilling on the rocks down near the water. This is life on Hamburgö, and this 162-square-meter country home at the end of a quiet lane puts you right at the center of it.
Built in 2006 on a 3,689-square-meter plot, this is a house that was designed with intention. The classic Scandinavian exterior—clean lines, quality cladding, pitched roofline—doesn't feel dated because it was never chasing a trend. Inside, the open-plan kitchen and living area runs across the main floor with the easy confidence of a well-thought-out space. Large windows frame the garden and the sky beyond. Sunlight moves through the rooms differently at each hour of the day, and you start noticing that within the first week.
The kitchen is proper. Generous worktops, modern appliances, the kind of layout where two people can actually cook together without negotiating territory. A sunny terrace steps off the living area—wide enough for a proper outdoor table, a gas grill, and still room to stretch out in a chair after dinner while the midsummer sky refuses to go dark until nearly midnight.
Three bedrooms in the main house handle the family comfortably. Two bathrooms mean no queues before a day at the beach. But the real conversation-starter is the guest house. Separate, self-contained, with its own bathroom and kitchen, it changes the whole dynamic of having visitors. Friends stay for a week and nobody runs out of space or patience. Alternatively, it works as a home studio, a work-from-anywhere office, or—worth thinking about—a rental unit during the peak summer weeks when Bohuslän fills with Swedes and international visitors who pay well to be this close to the archipelago.
Step outside and the plot reveals itself. Nearly 3,700 square meters sounds like a number until you're walking it, watching your kids disappear into one corner while you're tending the greenhouse at the other end. The greenhouse is genuinely useful—grow tomatoes that actually taste like summer, or herbs, or flowers to cut for the table inside. The garden is maintained and green and gives you that sense of privacy that's hard to find anywhere near the coast in July. A carport with an electric car charger handles the practical side of things. A storage room keeps bikes, paddleboards, and fishing gear out of the living room.
Three hundred meters to the water. That's not a marketing approximation—it's a three-minute walk, down a lane, past the smell of pine resin warming in the sun. The current owner holds a boat berth through Hamnebuktens samfällighetsförening, and that berth transfers to the new owner. Arrive by boat from Strömstad or Fjällbacka. Anchor off the outer skerries on a calm afternoon. Fish for mackerel in the evening with a handline off the rocks while the kids swim in the cove below.
Hamburgö sits at the northern edge of Bohuslän, the coastal county that runs up from Gothenburg toward the Norwegian border—arguably the most coveted stretch of Swedish coastline there is. The region is defined by smooth granite islands, endless channels, and the particular shade of blue-grey the sea turns in the late afternoon. Hamburgsund, just across the bridge from the island, has a proper grocery store, bakeries, a pharmacy, cafés that open early and stay busy all summer, and restaurants that make the most of locally caught crab and langoustine. The lobster season, which opens each autumn on the first Monday of October, is something locals take seriously—you'll learn that fast.
Beyond the water, Bohuslän has the Vitlycke Museum and the UNESCO World Heritage rock carvings near Tanum—some of the oldest and best-preserved Bronze Age art in Northern Europe, and genuinely fascinating rather than obligatorily visited. Fjällbacka, fifteen minutes south by car, is the village where Ingrid Bergman spent her summers and where Camilla Läckberg set her crime novels; it has a harbor square in summer that feels like the best party in the county. Strömstad, thirty minutes north, handles larger shopping runs and has direct rail connections.
Gothenburg's Landvetter Airport is roughly two hours by car—an easy start or end to a long weekend. Oslo's Gardermoen is around three hours, which makes this reachable from most of Northwest Europe with a short flight and a scenic drive through the Swedish countryside.
The Swedish west coast property market has been consistent. Waterside and near-waterside plots in Tanums kommun are genuinely hard to find at this scale—3,700 square meters within walking distance of the sea, with a separate guest structure, doesn't come up often. For international buyers, Sweden's property ownership laws are straightforward; EU citizens face no restrictions, and the purchasing process through a licensed broker is transparent and well-regulated. Annual property taxes are modest by European standards. Rental income potential during the high season (late June through August) is strong, particularly with a self-contained guest house that can be let independently.
The house is in good condition—not a project, not a renovation conversation, just a well-kept home ready for the next chapter.
Key features at a glance:
- 3-bedroom main house, 162 sqm, built 2006 in classic Scandinavian style
- Separate self-contained guest house with own kitchen and bathroom
- 3,689 sqm private plot with maintained garden
- 300 meters to the sea with transferable boat berth
- Open-plan kitchen and living room with terrace access
- 2 bathrooms across the main house
- Greenhouse for year-round growing
- Carport with electric vehicle charger
- Dedicated storage room for outdoor and sports equipment
- Located on Hamburgö, one of Bohuslän's most sought-after island addresses
- Short drive to Hamburgsund town, Fjällbacka, and Strömstad
- UNESCO World Heritage Tanum rock carvings within the municipality
- Strong vacation rental income potential in peak summer months
- 2 hours from Gothenburg Landvetter Airport, 3 hours from Oslo Gardermoen
- Straightforward purchase process for international and EU buyers
If you've been watching the Bohuslän market, you already know that a plot this size, this close to the water, with this kind of flexibility, is not something you sit on and think about for too long. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a private viewing—and if you can visit in summer, do. Walking the plot in July, with the light coming off the water and the evening long and warm, will answer most of your questions before you've even stepped inside.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 162m²
- Price per m²
- €4,475
- Garden size
- 3689m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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