4-Bed Island Holiday Home with Sauna, Guest Cottage & Boat Included – Skellefteå Archipelago



Risböle 1:50, Skellefteå, Skellefteå kommun, Sweden, Burgsvik (Sweden)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 80m² Floor area
€218,700
Country home
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
80m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The alarm doesn't go off here. You wake up because the light does — a low Arctic gold sliding across the water at 5am in July, spilling through the bedroom window of the main cottage while the rest of the island is still quiet. Grab a coffee, walk twenty steps to the dock, and watch a pike break the surface of Bäckfjärden. That's the morning. Every morning.
This is an island property in the Skellefteå archipelago, about 40 kilometers from the city center, and it is one of the most complete turnkey holiday retreats you will find anywhere in northern Sweden. Complete is the right word — the boat is included, the furniture stays, and the mainland garage with a private dock is part of the deal. You arrive, you unpack, and you start living.
The main cottage sits at roughly 90 square meters, used across most of the year rather than just a short summer window, which tells you something important about how it's built. A 2024 air-source heat pump handles the shoulder seasons efficiently, backed up by two wood-burning stoves that turn October evenings into something you actually look forward to. Radiators throughout mean you're not chasing warmth from room to room. The windows have been swapped out gradually over the past 15 years for maintenance-free units — small detail, big difference when you're an owner who isn't always on-site.
Step outside and the property keeps going. A separate guest cottage of around 20 square meters has its own kitchenette and a south-facing terrace, which means visiting family members get genuine privacy rather than a fold-out sofa situation. Two insulated cabins — friggebodar in Swedish, each around 10 square meters and both wired for electricity — handle the overflow: a teenage kid who wants their own space, a painting studio, a gear room for kayaks and fishing tackle. A dedicated storage building with three separate rooms and a woodshed rounds things out. Nothing here feels improvised or tacked on.
The sauna building deserves its own sentence. Shower, washbasin, washing machine, and a proper Finnish-style sauna, all housed in a separate structure near the water. On a late-August evening, after a day out on the archipelago, you come back to this. The ritual of it — the heat, the cold plunge into the bay, the silence — is the kind of thing that makes people stop renting and start buying.
The practical side of island life is handled through that mainland share. A 50% stake in the property Såggrundet 1:1 comes with the sale, giving you two garages (large enough for a boat on a trailer and a snowmobile), a small storage cottage, four parking spaces, and a private dock with mooring for two or three boats. You drive to the mainland, park, load up, and cross to the island. The Sandström 460 with its Mercury 20hp engine — electric start, power trim — is already waiting. You don't need to source a boat. It's part of the transaction.
The archipelago around Bäckfjärden rewards exploration. By boat you reach child-friendly sandy beaches within a short run, and the headland at Bjuröklubb — a protected nature reserve with ancient fishing villages, seal colonies, and some of the clearest Baltic coastal waters in the country — is within easy cruising distance. Kalashällan is another local favorite, known among Swedish anglers for pike and perch fishing that actually delivers. The Skellefteå archipelago doesn't get the international attention that the Stockholm or Gothenburg coasts attract, which means the waters are less crowded, the prices are still rational, and the experience feels genuinely remote rather than performatively so.
Skellefteå itself has changed significantly in recent years. The Northvolt battery factory brought serious infrastructure investment to the region, including upgraded roads, a growing international community, and rising property values that are still catching up to the new economic reality. For buyers thinking about long-term value alongside personal enjoyment, that context matters. The city has a functional airport with connections to Stockholm Arlanda, and the drive from the city to the mainland access point for this property is manageable year-round.
Seasonally, the island works across more of the calendar than you might expect. Summer is the obvious draw — the midnight sun phenomenon at this latitude means July light that simply doesn't quit, long evenings on the terrace with grilled whitefish and a cold Norrlands Guld. But autumn brings its own rewards: the birch forest color, the fishing, the emptying of tourist traffic. Winter on the archipelago is stark and extraordinary — snowmobile access across the frozen bay, ice fishing for pike through drilled holes, and nights so clear the aurora borealis fills the sky without any light pollution to dilute it. Spring arrives late but hits hard, the snow melting fast in April and the first boats going back in the water before most of the country has noticed the season changed.
Key features of this island vacation home:
- Island location in Bäckfjärden, Skellefteå archipelago, approx. 40km from city center
- Main cottage approx. 90 sqm, used year-round, in good condition
- 2024 air-source heat pump plus two wood-burning stoves and radiators
- Guest cottage approx. 20 sqm with kitchenette and private terrace
- Two insulated 10 sqm cabins with electricity — ideal for guests, hobbies, or storage
- Separate sauna building with shower, washing machine, and washbasin
- Dedicated storage building with three rooms and woodshed
- Mains electricity and water supply via water association
- 50% share of mainland property Såggrundet 1:1 with garages, dock, and parking
- Private mainland dock with mooring for 2-3 boats
- Sandström 460 boat with Mercury 20hp engine and trailer included
- All furnishings included — fully move-in ready
- Bjuröklubb nature reserve and sandy beaches accessible by boat
- Strong pike and perch fishing directly from the property
- Growing Skellefteå property market with regional investment tailwinds
For international buyers, Sweden's property purchase process is relatively transparent and open to foreign nationals, with no blanket restrictions on non-EU buyers acquiring recreational property. The purchase typically involves a licensed estate agent, a straightforward contract process, and standard title registration. The shared mainland property (Såggrundet 1:1) comes with an existing co-ownership structure worth reviewing with a Swedish property lawyer before completion — standard practice for any shared-title purchase here.
Rental potential exists for the peak summer weeks, particularly July, when demand for private island accommodation in northern Sweden consistently outstrips supply. The inclusion of the boat and fully furnished state makes this immediately listable on short-term platforms without any further investment.
Properties on private islands in the Skellefteå archipelago with this level of infrastructure — mainland access, multiple structures, a sauna, a boat, and year-round heating — come up rarely. The asking price reflects genuine value in a market that is quietly, steadily, moving upward.
To arrange a viewing or request the full property documentation, contact Homestra today. This one is worth a trip north to see in person.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 80m²
- Price per m²
- €2,734
- Garden size
- 2000m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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