3-Bed Swedish Country Estate with Outbuildings & Lake Views – Roslagen Vacation Home



Örviks byväg 18, 763 90 Herräng, Norrtälje kommun, Sweden, Herräng (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 130m² Floor area
€359,500
Country home
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
130m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a July morning at Örviks byväg 18 and the air carries something particular — a mix of pine resin, cut grass, and the faint salt tang drifting in from the Baltic just 1.7 kilometres away. The southwest sun is already hitting the glazed conservatory. Coffee in hand, you watch a pair of cranes pick their way across the meadow. This is Roslagen in its quietest, most honest form. Not a postcard. The real thing.
Herräng sits roughly 100 kilometres north of Stockholm along the Uppland coast, tucked into the northern reaches of the Roslagen archipelago — a region Swedes have been quietly keeping to themselves for generations. This particular property sits about 4 kilometres south of Herräng village proper, on a lane where the neighbours are mostly birch trees and the occasional tractor. The address, Örviks byväg 18, places you on the edge of the Örvikssjön lake, roughly 350 metres from the water's edge. On still evenings you can hear the lake. On windy ones, you can hear the sea.
The main house is a 1.5-storey building measuring 130 square metres, in good condition and ready to move into without a renovation project hanging over your first summer. Ground floor has a proper layout for a family: a hallway that opens naturally into a generous living room, a kitchen that works, a bedroom, and a laundry room with WC. Upstairs, two more bedrooms and a bathroom share the space with a family room and, critically, a balcony with partial views over Örvikssjön. That balcony matters more than it sounds on paper — sitting up there as the light shifts over the water at 9pm in June, with the sky still pale gold, is one of those Swedish summer moments that makes people buy property in this country and never fully leave.
The glazed conservatory on the southwest-facing entrance side is genuinely useful — not just decorative. It extends the season in both directions, giving you a warm, light-filled room from March through October without the Swedish chill making it miserable. On the gable side of the house, a wooden deck hosts an outdoor spa. After a day of paddling kayaks on Örvikssjön or hiking the coastal paths between Herräng and Grisslehamn, that spa earns its place.
What sets this estate apart from the typical Swedish sommarstuга is the sheer range of outbuildings. There are two barns, a root cellar, a greenhouse, a detached insulated storage building constructed as recently as 2020, and a large multi-purpose outbuilding that combines a garage, workshop, woodshed, and a former cowshed. A spacious carport attaches to this structure. Adjacent to the farmstead sits arable and pasture land with no current written lease — meaning you decide entirely how it's used. Horse keeping is realistic here. So is a kitchen garden serious enough to feed you through the winter. Or you ignore all of it and let the meadow do what meadows do.
Herräng itself carries an unusual global reputation for a village of its size, and that's entirely down to the Herräng Dance Camp — five weeks every summer when swing dancers from sixty-plus countries descend on this tiny coastal community for what is genuinely regarded as the world's largest and most celebrated lindy hop event. The village transforms. Bands play late into the night. The community hall fills with international visitors. If you arrive at the marina during camp weeks expecting sleepy seaside Sweden, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Outside of those five weeks, Herräng settles back into itself: a marina about 6 kilometres away with a grocery store, a restaurant, a sandy beach, and the kind of calm that people drive two hours from Stockholm specifically to find.
Hallstavik is an eight-minute drive and covers every practical need — ICA, Coop, and Tempo supermarkets, a pharmacy, a health centre, banks, and the Carl Wahren Gymnasium for families considering longer stays or permanent relocation. There's a swimming pool, a skate park, riding schools with both indoor and outdoor arenas, speedway, and a nine-hole golf course nearby. None of this feels like a compromise.
For days when you want more energy, Grisslehamn is about 20 minutes by car and comes fully alive in summer. The fish shops there sell smoked shrimp and fresh-caught Baltic perch directly off the boats. Restaurants spill out onto harbour terraces. And from the Grisslehamn marina, the Eckerö Line departs for Åland — Finland's autonomous archipelago island group — which makes for an excellent two-day side trip. Albert Engström, the Swedish artist and writer, lived and worked in Grisslehamn for decades, and the area still carries that slightly literary, unhurried quality he clearly found useful.
The Roslagen coastline itself is a serious destination for outdoor activity across most of the year. Summer means kayaking the inner archipelago, sailing out of Herräng marina, swimming from the flat rocks and sandy patches along the shore, and cycling the quiet inland roads through forests that smell overwhelmingly of warm spruce. Autumn brings exceptional mushroom foraging — chanterelles and porcini in quantities that Swedish locals treat as a state secret — and the birch forests turn a yellow so sharp it's almost acidic. Winter here is genuine Nordic winter, and the cross-country ski trails around Hallstavik get properly used from December through February.
For international buyers, Sweden's property purchase process is relatively transparent and accessible. There are no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing property, and the legal framework is well-established. Property taxes in Sweden are capped at reasonable levels, and running costs for rural properties of this type tend to be predictable. The rental market in Roslagen is active through summer, with Stockholm families consistently seeking cottages and rural properties for June through August — the combination of outbuildings, land, and water proximity makes this estate particularly attractive as a short-term rental proposition during weeks you're not using it yourself.
At 359,500 SEK, this is priced as a working estate with genuine land, infrastructure, and a habitable house — not as a stripped-back cabin. The value here is the combination: a liveable home, a full complement of outbuildings, agricultural land, proximity to both a lake and the coast, and a location inside one of Sweden's most sought-after coastal regions.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms across 130 sqm of living space
- Southwest-facing glazed conservatory and outdoor spa deck
- Balcony with partial views over Örvikssjön lake
- Two barns, root cellar, greenhouse, large multi-purpose outbuilding with garage and workshop
- Insulated detached storage building constructed 2020
- Arable and pasture land with no current written lease
- 350 metres from Örvikssjön lake, 1.7 km from the Baltic coast
- 4 km from Herräng village and marina (grocery, restaurant, sandy beach)
- 8 minutes to Hallstavik for full amenities including schools, healthcare and supermarkets
- 20 minutes to Grisslehamn with ferry connections to Åland
- Approximately 100 km north of Stockholm
- Home to the internationally renowned Herräng Dance Camp every summer
- Strong summer rental market throughout Roslagen
- No restrictions on foreign national buyers in Sweden
- Priced at 359,500 SEK — exceptional value for a multi-building rural estate in coastal Uppland
Properties like this one on Örviks byväg don't come up often, and when they do, the people who move fastest are usually the ones who already know Roslagen. If you don't know it yet, this is the reason to learn. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing — summer or autumn both show this landscape at its most compelling, though honestly, a crisp October morning here with the birches in full colour makes a pretty convincing case on its own.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 130m²
- Price per m²
- €2,765
- Garden size
- 10000m²
- 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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