Stand at the end of your own jetty at six in the morning. The water in Tanumskilen is so still it mirrors the granite cliffs on the far shore. A cormorant dries its wings on a rock nearby. Your coffee is getting cold back on the terrace. You don't care. This is what owning Klätta 1 A and B actually feels like—and there is genuinely nothing else like it on the Swedish west coast market right now.
Set on its own private peninsula in the Bohuslän archipelago, just outside Tanumshede in Västra Götaland county, this is an 8.3-hectare coastal estate comprising two fully winterized residential houses, a private boat and swimming jetty, and direct frontage onto some of the most sought-after sailing water in Scandinavia. The shoreline sits roughly 100 meters from the front doors. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, 167 square meters of indoor living space, and an additional 62 square meters of utility area across the two interconnected properties—together they form a compound that works equally well as a private family retreat or a genuinely viable coastal business base.
The Bohuslän coast has been pulling people north from Gothenburg for generations, and for good reason. This is the Sweden of salt-bleached wooden boathouses, hand-painted red cottages perched on polished rock, and harbors where the morning catch gets weighed while the fog still sits low on the fjord. Grebbestad, about 8 kilometers east and reachable in ten minutes by car, is the kind of town where the oyster boats come in at the Grebbestad Fiskmarknad and you can eat those oysters an hour later at a table overlooking the quay. In July, the harbor fills with wooden sailing vessels for the annual gatherings that attract classic boat enthusiasts from across the Nordic countries. Tanumshede itself—also ten minutes away—has everything you need day-to-day: ICA supermarket, pharmacy, Systembolaget, Sportshopen, cafés, and a handful of restaurants that do serious things with locally caught crayfish and cold-smoked mackerel.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site at Tanum is practically on your doorstep. The Bronze Age rock carvings at Vitlycke—some of the finest in the world—are less than fifteen minutes by car, and the associated museum makes for a genuinely fascinating afternoon when the weather turns. The Kosterfjord, Sweden's only national marine park, is accessible by boat from your own jetty. You can kayak out to Kosteröarna—the Koster Islands—on a calm summer day, which is the kind of thing that sounds implausible until you're actually doing it.
Summer on this stretch of coastline is long and light. Bohuslän gets around 2,000 hours of sunshine annually, and daylight in June pushes past ten o'clock at night. The sea temperature in Tanumskilen reaches a genuinely swimmable 18–20°C by late July. Autumn brings a different kind of beauty: low amber light over the islands, migratory birds staging along the shore, and the crayfish season that turns every harbor café into a place worth visiting. Winter here is mild by Swedish standards—the coast moderates temperatures significantly—and both houses are equipped with a new geothermal heating system that keeps running costs impressively low regardless of the season.
Those infrastructure upgrades are worth dwelling on. The geothermal system is recent, as is a new mini sewage treatment plant, a new filtration system drawing drinking water from the private well, and a new roof on the second house—which also has ideal southern orientation for solar panel installation. The estate has been inspected through Anticimex's Varudeklarerat program and comes with a 10-year hidden defects insurance covering both buyer and seller. For international buyers, that kind of documented assurance matters enormously. You're not taking a leap of faith; you're buying a property with a paper trail.
The 8.3 hectares of private land—new fencing already in place—open up possibilities that a standard holiday cottage simply cannot offer. The property currently holds villa and holiday home taxation status, with a credible path to reclassification as an agricultural estate, which would in turn allow purchase through a legal entity. That's an unusual flexibility for Tanum municipality, where agricultural land acquisition rules are typically restrictive. Speak to a Swedish property lawyer about the specific structuring options; the possibilities for holding this through a company are worth exploring carefully. There's also the question of what to do with the land itself: previous owners kept horses here, and the infrastructure for animal husbandry remains. A bed and breakfast, a sailing school base, a private equestrian property—the footprint supports all of it.
For buyers coming from outside Sweden, Gothenburg is 140 kilometers south—about 90 minutes on the E6—and has direct international flights connecting to London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and beyond. Oslo is 170 kilometers north, roughly two hours by car. Norway's proximity means this property sits in a genuinely cross-border lifestyle zone, appealing to Norwegian buyers looking for a Swedish coastal base as much as to international buyers flying into Landvetter.
Mjölkeröd Golf Club is a five-minute drive away, consistently rated among the better courses in western Sweden for its views over the archipelago. Hiking trails thread through the surrounding landscape, connecting coastal headlands and inland forest in a way that rewards both casual walkers and serious trail runners. The waters around the peninsula offer kayaking, sailing, fishing for sea trout and mackerel, and some of the best recreational crabbing on the Swedish coast.
Key features at a glance:
- Two fully winterized residential houses totaling 167 sqm of living space plus 62 sqm secondary area
- 8.3 hectares (82,600 sqm) of private peninsula land with direct sea access
- Private boat and swimming jetty with frontage onto Tanumskilen
- New geothermal heating system across both houses for low annual running costs
- New mini sewage treatment plant and private well with new filtration system
- New roof on second house; south-facing orientation ready for solar panels
- New fencing installed for animal husbandry or equestrian use
- Anticimex Varudeklarerat inspection with 10-year hidden defects insurance
- Possible reclassification to agricultural estate allowing company purchase
- No permanent residency obligation — fully seasonal or year-round use
- 8km to Grebbestad, 8km to Tanumshede, 140km to Gothenburg, 170km to Oslo
- 5-minute drive to Mjölkeröd Golf Club
- Close to Vitlycke UNESCO rock carvings and Kosterfjord National Marine Park
- Genuine potential for coastal business use: B&B, sailing school, equestrian center
Properties like this—private peninsula, two houses, working jetty, nearly 10 hectares—simply don't come to market in Bohuslän with any regularity. When they do, they go to buyers who move decisively. If you want to see it for yourself, get in touch through Homestra today to arrange a private viewing. The jetty is waiting.
