3-Bed Norwegian Chalet in Svensby with Lyngen Alps Views | Holiday Home on 2,000 sqm Plot



Lattervikveien 856, 9064 Svensby, Norway, Svensby (Norway)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 68m² Floor area
€78,800
Chalet
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
68m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a September morning and the air hits you—cold, clean, carrying the faint smell of birch smoke from somewhere down the valley. The Lyngen Alps are right there, filling the entire southern horizon, those jagged glacier-capped ridges catching the first orange light of day. This is Svensby. And this is the kind of place people spend years searching for before they finally find it.
Lattervikveien 856 is a traditional Norwegian cabin built around 1970, sitting on its own private plot of just under 2,000 square meters on the western shore of Lyngenfjord. Three bedrooms, one bathroom, 68 square meters of honest timber-and-wood-panel interior. It needs work—the current owners are upfront about that, and so are we. But what it has right now, no amount of renovation budget can manufacture: that view, that plot, that postcode in the Norwegian Arctic.
The cabin's heart is its living room, where a wood-burning stove sits against a stone wall and does exactly what you'd want it to do on a dark November evening. The open layout between kitchen and living area means that whoever's cooking is never out of the conversation, and with the windows framing the Alps like a painting that changes every hour, nobody really wants to face the other direction anyway. A covered balcony of around 9 square meters opens off the living room—small enough to feel intimate, big enough for a camp chair, a coffee, and an hour of doing absolutely nothing. The kitchen runs along an open galley arrangement with smooth-fronted cabinets and laminate worktops. Functional, practical, and honest about what it is.
The three bedrooms each have a different feel. One has a bunk setup, which works brilliantly if you're bringing kids or friends who don't mind being stacked. The others have wood-paneled walls and windows that look out into the birch trees. Floors throughout are laminate—easy to clean after a muddy autumn hike, which matters more than people think when you're actually using a cabin rather than just photographing it. The bathroom is original to the build: shower cabin, toilet, vanity with mirror. It works. It will look better after some attention.
Outside, the plot is wide, relatively flat, and wrapped in natural vegetation—birch, low scrub, the kind of northern greenery that turns brilliant gold in late September and then drops its leaves to reveal the mountain silhouettes behind. A 12-square-meter woodshed sits separate from the cabin, useful for firewood storage and the inevitable accumulation of outdoor gear that comes with this lifestyle. The cabin connects to the public water supply, and the electrics were updated with automatic circuit breakers back in 2012.
Now, about the location—because this is where Svensby earns its reputation. The Lyngen Alps are not a generic mountain range. They're a serious destination. Ski touring here is some of the best in Europe, drawing experienced backcountry skiers from Norway, France, Germany, and the UK every winter from December through April. The combination of Arctic latitude, maritime snow conditions, and raw vertical relief creates runs that people fly specifically to Tromsø to access. In summer, the same mountains become hiking and mountaineering terrain: the route up Jiehkkevárri, at 1,833 meters the highest peak in Troms county, starts not far from here. You don't need to be an alpinist to enjoy it—there are easier trails threading through the valleys and along the fjord that reward any fitness level with views that would look made-up on a postcard.
The fjord itself is 900 meters from the cabin door. That proximity opens up sea fishing for cod and coalfish, kayaking along the shoreline, and in the right months, the very real possibility of watching humpback whales feeding in the water below the mountains. The Northern Lights season runs from roughly October through March, and this far north—just above 69 degrees latitude—the sky on a clear night does things that are genuinely hard to describe in any language.
Svensby sits in Lyngen municipality in Troms county. Tromsø, the largest city in Northern Norway and a major hub for Arctic tourism, is accessible by a combination of local ferry and road—roughly an hour to an hour and a half depending on your route. Tromsø has an international airport with direct connections to Oslo, and from Oslo the world opens up. For day-to-day practicalities, there's a bus stop a four-minute walk from the cabin, and the nearest grocery store is around 22 minutes by car—a completely reasonable distance for a remote Norwegian cabin, and far less than many comparable properties in the region.
The climate is subarctic, which means winters are genuinely cold and dark—the polar night runs from late November to mid-January—and summers are mild, green, and lit almost continuously by the midnight sun from late May into July. Both extremes are extraordinary in their own way. The midnight sun in particular has a habit of completely dismantling your sense of time, which turns out to be exactly what most people need.
For international buyers, Norway's property market is open to foreign ownership, and Svensby represents exceptional value compared to comparable second-home locations elsewhere in Scandinavia. At this price point, factoring in the renovation investment required, you're acquiring a rare freehold plot with mountain views in an area that has seen sustained and growing interest from adventure tourism operators and international buyers over the past decade. The Lyngen region specifically has benefited from increased global coverage as a ski touring and Arctic experience destination, which supports both personal value appreciation and rental potential for owners who choose to let the property when not in use.
Key features at a glance:
- Traditional Norwegian timber chalet built circa 1970, good structural condition
- 3 bedrooms including one with bunk beds, suitable for families or groups
- 1 bathroom with shower cabin and vanity, original fittings ready for renovation
- Open-plan kitchen and living room with wood-burning stove set against stone wall
- Covered balcony of approximately 9 sqm with direct views of the Lyngen Alps
- Private owned plot of approximately 1,990 sqm with natural birch vegetation
- 12 sqm separate woodshed for storage
- Connected to public water supply, electrical system updated 2012
- Approximately 900 meters from Lyngenfjord shoreline
- Bus stop a 4-minute walk away; grocery store approximately 22 minutes by car
- Tromsø Airport reachable in roughly 60-90 minutes
- Prime ski touring access in winter; hiking and fjord activities in summer
- Northern Lights viewable from October through March
- Midnight sun from late May to mid-July
- Strong renovation and personalization potential in a high-demand Arctic region
This cabin is not for everyone, and that's precisely its appeal. It's for people who know what they're looking for and recognize it when they see it. A project, yes—but a project with the Lyngen Alps in the window and a fjord ten minutes' walk away. The bones are solid. The location is irreplaceable. What you do with the interior is entirely up to you.
If you'd like to arrange a viewing or speak with the Homestra team about ownership practicalities for international buyers in Norway, get in touch today. Properties on private plots in this part of the Arctic don't come back to market often—and when they do, they tend not to stay available for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 68m²
- Price per m²
- €1,159
- Garden size
- 1990m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Chalet
- Energy label
Unknown
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