3-Bed Equestrian Country Home with Stables & Riding Arena – Skurup, Sweden



Hassle Bösarp 1216, 274 93 Skurup, Sweden, Skurup (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 0m² Floor area
€454,000
Country home
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
0m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The smell hits you first — hay, open earth, and the faint sweetness of grass paddocks catching the morning sun across Skåne's flat, impossibly wide horizon. Then the quiet. Not the dead silence of an empty place, but the kind of rural hush that has texture: a horse shifting in its box, the creak of a wooden deck underfoot, the distant chime of Skurup church drifting across the fields. That's the daily rhythm at Hassle Bösarp 1216, a 1.7-hectare property in southern Sweden that doesn't ask you to compromise between serious equestrian living and a genuinely comfortable home life.
This is a working equestrian estate that someone actually lives in well. The stables are proper — six indoor boxes, two outdoor boxes, and a large loose housing shelter with space for up to eight more horses — not the kind of cobbled-together setup you often find attached to residential properties. The 20x60 metre riding arena is built to international dressage dimensions, which tells you something about the ambition behind this place. Grass paddocks run right alongside the stable buildings, so horses can move between shelter and grazing without drama. The surrounding landscape opens into riding trails and forested sections within easy hacking distance, making this as practical for everyday training as it is for weekend leisure rides across the Skåne countryside.
Back inside, the 1.5-storey main house has aged well and been maintained with care. The kitchen was renovated in 2011 and still earns its keep — gas hob, side-by-side American-style fridge-freezer, a working wood stove for the colder months, and a pantry large enough to stock properly. Step through the kitchen door and you're on a wide rear deck where a wood-fired pizza oven waits. On a long Skåne summer evening, when the light doesn't give up until past ten o'clock, that deck becomes the centre of everything. Friends around the table, smoke rising, fields stretching out ahead — this is what the property does best: it makes ordinary evenings feel like an occasion.
The living and dining spaces flow in an L-shape that keeps the house feeling open without being cavernous. A wood-burning stove anchors the sitting area for the months between October and March, when Skåne turns moody and atmospheric and the flat farmland takes on a different kind of beauty. Three to five rooms across the upper and lower floors give genuine flexibility — three bedrooms comfortably, with the remaining rooms easily configured as a home office, a fourth bedroom, or a dedicated space for guests who don't want to leave after a weekend. Two modern bathrooms and a separate laundry room keep the practical side of things running smoothly for full-time residents and holiday visitors alike.
Outside, the garden is deliberately low-maintenance — no obsessive topiary or fussy beds, just manageable greenery, a greenhouse for growing your own tomatoes and cucumbers through the Skåne summer, and a spa bath set with views out over open fields. The courtyard is generous enough to park several vehicles without the awkward reshuffling that plagues smaller rural properties. There's also a tack room, a boiler room, and additional storage spaces — the kind of infrastructure that experienced horse owners know to look for and rarely find this well sorted.
Skurup itself is four minutes by bicycle or car. It's a proper working town, not a tourist showcase — with a train station connecting directly to Malmö (25 minutes by car, regular rail services), Ystad, and Simrishamn. Copenhagen Airport at Kastrup is 45 minutes by road, making this genuinely accessible for international buyers who plan to fly in for extended stays. Sturup Airport, which handles domestic and some European routes, is 15 minutes away. Ferry connections to Germany and Poland are around 30 minutes from the coast at Trelleborg, so the continent is never far.
Southern Skåne rewards those who take time to explore it properly. The Ales Stenar stone ship monument near Kåseberga is a 40-minute drive east and worth the trip several times over, particularly at midsummer. The coastal town of Ystad, made globally famous by Henning Mankell's Wallander novels, has a medieval centre, a working harbour, and some of the best smoked herring you'll find anywhere in Scandinavia. Falsterbo Peninsula to the west draws birdwatchers during the autumn migration in numbers that border on the spectacular — hundreds of thousands of raptors and passerines funnelling south across the narrow tip of land. Malmö's cultural scene, its food markets along Möllevångstorget, and the Moderna Museet are all within reasonable reach for a day out.
The Skåne climate is milder than most of Sweden — winters are cold but rarely brutal, summers long and genuinely warm. July and August regularly hit 20–25°C, and the long summer evenings are the real draw for Scandinavian country living. Spring arrives early here by Swedish standards, and the rapeseed fields turn the landscape an almost violent yellow from April onward. Autumn is atmospheric in the best way — golden light, cooler temperatures, and the apple orchards that dot the region heavy with fruit.
For international buyers, Sweden's property market is straightforward and transparent. There are no restrictions on EU or non-EU citizens purchasing residential property, and the legal process — handled through a licensed estate agent and verified through the Lantmäteriet land registry — is clear and well-regulated. Property taxes in Sweden are capped at relatively modest levels, and running costs for a rural property of this type are manageable. The equestrian facilities also open a rental angle: short-term livery agreements or seasonal stable rental can generate income during periods when the owners are not in residence, though the property works equally well as a purely private retreat.
At 454,000 EUR, this represents significant value for a 1.7-hectare equestrian property in one of Europe's most accessible rural regions — particularly given the infrastructure already in place. Comparable equestrian setups in France, Germany, or the Netherlands at this price point rarely come with a riding arena of this standard, let alone the transport connections that southern Skåne offers.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms (up to 5 with flexible room configuration) across a 1.5-storey country home
- 2 modern bathrooms plus separate laundry room
- Kitchen renovated in 2011 with gas hob, American-style fridge-freezer, wood stove, and large pantry
- Wide rear wooden deck with wood-fired pizza oven
- 20x60 metre riding arena to international dressage dimensions
- 6 indoor stable boxes, 2 outdoor boxes, and loose housing for up to 8 more horses
- Grass paddocks directly adjacent to stables
- 1.7 hectares (17,000 m²) total plot with open field views
- Greenhouse, spa bath, tack room, and boiler room
- Large courtyard with ample parking
- 4 minutes to Skurup town centre, train station, schools, and shops
- 25 minutes to Malmö, 45 minutes to Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup)
- 15 minutes to Sturup Airport, 30 minutes to Trelleborg ferry terminal
- Riding trails and forested areas accessible directly from the property
- No restrictions on international ownership; transparent Swedish property law
If you've been looking for a second home in Sweden that gives you real country living without cutting you off from the rest of Europe, this is worth your time. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a private viewing — properties like this, with this level of equestrian infrastructure and this kind of location, don't sit on the market long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 0m²
- Price per m²
- €∞
- Garden size
- 17000m²
- 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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