4-Bed Holiday Home with Large Garden on Fårö Island, Gotland – Swedish Second Home



Fårö Friggars 2443, 624 66 Fårö, Gotlands kommun, Sweden, Fårö (Sweden)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 110m² Floor area
€360,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
110m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Early July on Fårö, the light doesn't really set. By ten in the evening it's still this warm amber glow through the pine trees, and if you're sitting on the grass with a glass of something cold, the silence is so complete you can hear the limestone crunch under a passing bike on the lane outside. That's the particular magic of this island — and this four-bedroom house at Fårö Friggars 2443 puts you right in the middle of it, on a 1,538 square meter plot that feels like it belongs to another era entirely.
Fårö is not Gotland's main island, which already tells you something. To get here, you take the small free ferry from Fårösund — a ten-minute crossing that most tourists never bother with. The ones who do make that crossing tend to come back every year. The island has maybe a thousand permanent residents, a handful of year-round shops, and a landscape that has been quietly captivating people since Ingmar Bergman decided he never wanted to leave. His grave is here. His old screening room still stands in Hammars. In August, the Bergman Week festival draws film lovers from across Europe for outdoor screenings and talks, and in the weeks either side of it, the island is animated without ever feeling overrun.
The house itself is a classic 1981 plastered construction — the kind of solid, no-nonsense Swedish summer house that was built to be used, not photographed. Around 110 square meters across two floors, it's in good condition and genuinely functional for a family or a group of friends who want space without the complications of a renovation project. Four bedrooms. Two bathrooms. A kitchen that actually has room to cook in. This isn't a weekend cabin that sleeps four in a tangle of fold-out beds. It's a proper house.
Downstairs, the layout makes immediate sense. The hallway opens into the main living areas, with two bedrooms and a recently renovated bathroom on the entrance level — a detail that matters more than it sounds when you're hosting grandparents or guests with young children who shouldn't be navigating stairs at night. The kitchen has ample counter space and storage, and it flows into the living room in the way that keeps conversation alive between whoever's cooking and whoever's already settled on the sofa. The living room itself is genuinely spacious — multiple windows face different directions, which means the light shifts through the day in interesting ways, and you get views out to the lawns and the trees without ever feeling hemmed in.
Upstairs, the staircase leads to a hallway connecting two more bedrooms and the second bathroom. This separation of sleeping quarters across two floors is one of the property's most practical assets — teenagers or guests get a degree of privacy that a single-level house simply can't offer, and multi-generational groups can organize themselves without anyone feeling on top of anyone else.
Outside is where the property's character really asserts itself. The plot wraps around the house — mature trees, well-kept grass, open sky. There's room for a long table under the trees, for children to run, for a hammock, for doing absolutely nothing at all. The surrounding Fårö landscape is flat and wide, with that particular mix of pine forest, limestone heath, and open fields that you don't find anywhere else in Scandinavia. On a clear day the light here is almost painfully clear.
Beaches are close. Sudersand, the island's most popular sandy beach, is a short bike ride away — roughly five kilometers of pale sand that catches the Gulf of Bothnia at its most inviting from late June through August, with water temperatures that regularly hit 20°C. Further north, Ullahau is quieter, backed by dunes and juniper scrub, and almost entirely unknown outside Sweden. The raukar — those extraordinary sea-stack limestone formations that emerge from the coastline like something from another planet — are scattered around the island's perimeter, and cycling between them on a weekday morning when the summer crowds haven't yet arrived is one of those experiences that becomes a fixed memory.
For food, Fårö's options are deliberately low-key and better for it. Fårö Butik handles most day-to-day shopping. In summer, a few small restaurants and a café or two appear — lamb from the island's own flocks, locally caught Baltic herring, rye crispbread that bears no relation to anything sold in supermarkets on the mainland. Visby, Gotland's UNESCO-listed medieval walled city, is roughly an hour south by car and ferry, and its restaurant scene has matured considerably in recent years, with places like Bakfickan and Gutekällaren worth the trip for an evening out.
For international buyers considering Gotland as a second home market, the fundamentals are straightforward. Sweden has no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing property, and the legal process is transparent and well-regulated. At 360,000 euros, this property represents strong value for an island where supply is genuinely constrained — Fårö has very limited new development, and properties of this size and condition don't stay available long. Rental demand in July and August is significant; Swedish families routinely pay premium weekly rates for well-located Fårö houses, and a property of this size commands serious interest from the start of the booking season in January. Swedish property taxes and ownership structures are manageable for EU and non-EU buyers alike, and a local förvaltare (property manager) can handle everything from maintenance to rental coordination when you're not in residence.
The nearest airport is Visby, with year-round connections to Stockholm Arlanda — the flight takes under an hour. From Stockholm, Visby is also reachable by overnight ferry, which many Swedish families treat as part of the ritual. Renting a car on arrival is straightforward and recommended; the island's distances are modest, but a car opens up the coastal tracks and forest roads that don't appear on any map.
Key features at a glance:
- Four bedrooms across two floors with a flexible, family-friendly layout
- Two bathrooms, including a recently renovated ground-floor bathroom
- 110 sqm of living space in good, move-in ready condition
- 1,538 sqm plot with mature trees, lawns, and full outdoor living potential
- Classic 1981 plastered construction — solid and well-maintained
- Located on Fårö island, accessible via the free Fårösund ferry
- Cycling distance to Sudersand beach and multiple rauk coastal formations
- One hour from Visby, Gotland's medieval UNESCO World Heritage city
- Visby Airport connects to Stockholm in under 60 minutes
- Strong summer rental demand with above-average weekly rates for the area
- No foreign ownership restrictions for international buyers in Sweden
- Bergman Week and other cultural events drive seasonal visitor interest
- Rare availability — Fårö properties of this size seldom come to market
- Quiet, rural setting with genuine privacy and open island landscape
Fårö is the kind of place people discover once and then quietly reorganize their lives around. The island doesn't advertise itself, doesn't need to. If you've spent even one long June evening here watching the light do what it does over the limestone heath, you already understand why Bergman never left — and why a house like this, on a plot like this, on an island like this, is worth paying serious attention to.
To arrange a viewing or request further details, reach out through Homestra today. Properties on Fårö at this size and price rarely stay on the market past spring.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 110m²
- Price per m²
- €3,273
- Garden size
- 1538m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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