7-Bed Archipelago House with Private Dock & Guesthouse — Vacation Home in Östhammar, Sweden



Vaden 125, Vaden - Sundsveden, 742 91 Östhammar, Sweden, Östhammar (Sweden)
7 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 135m² Floor area
€515,000
House
No parking
7 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
135m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand on the wooden deck at six in the morning, coffee in hand, and watch a sea eagle glide low over the water while the inlet below your plot sits completely still. No traffic noise. No neighbours in your sightline. Just the occasional creak of a boat at the shared dock and the smell of Swedish summer — sun-warmed pine, salt air, wild strawberries growing somewhere in the grass behind you. This is Vaden 125, sitting at the very tip of Söderön island in Östhammar Municipality, and mornings here genuinely feel like the world kept a secret just for you.
The house was built in 1992 and has been in the same family's hands ever since — the kind of place that accumulates decades of careful attention rather than neglect. You can feel it in the condition of the property: maintained properly, updated where it mattered, left alone where it didn't need changing. The main house runs to 135 square metres of living space across nine rooms, seven of which are bedrooms. Five of those bedrooms face the water. Waking up to an ever-shifting view of the Swedish archipelago isn't something you get used to quickly, which is rather the point.
The open-plan kitchen and living room is the gravitational centre of the house. Large windows run the length of the water-facing wall, and the light that comes through them changes completely with the seasons — the pale gold of late-summer evenings, the hard winter brightness bouncing off snow-covered rocks, the flat grey of an October storm that somehow makes the inside feel even warmer. The wraparound timber deck connects to this space directly, and in July it becomes an outdoor dining room, a sunbathing terrace, a stage for long evenings that drift past midnight.
The guesthouse — the original building on the estate — sits separately on the plot and brings genuine character that a newer structure simply wouldn't have. Old timber, proportions that feel considered rather than calculated. For families arriving in waves across the summer, or for guests who need their own space without being sent to a hotel forty minutes away, it solves the problem quietly and well. Additional outbuildings handle storage for kayaks, fishing gear, bicycles, and everything else that accumulates around a property used seriously as a base for outdoor life.
Then there's the dock. A private boat berth at the shared jetty, just below the plot, puts the entire Uppsala archipelago within reach every time you untie a line. The stretch of coastline between Östhammar and Gräsö is threaded with narrow channels, hidden bays, and small islands where you can anchor for lunch and swim off the boat. A swimming ladder on the rocks near the dock means you don't even need to cast off for a morning swim — the water is right there, clear and cold in the way that only Baltic archipelago water ever is.
Vaden sits at the absolute outer edge of Söderön, which means the archipelago begins at your boundary. This isn't a property near the sea. It's a property that exists in active conversation with it. The flora here is genuinely rich — sea buckthorn, wood anemone, orchids in the meadows in June. White-tailed eagles and osprey are regular visitors. In August, chanterelles push up through the forest floor within walking distance of the house, and lingonberries ripen along the rocky outcrops. In winter, when the ice forms hard enough, locals ski and skate along the frozen inlets — a Swedish tradition that visitors from warmer climates find quietly extraordinary.
The town of Östhammar is roughly a fifteen-minute drive and covers everything practical: ICA supermarket, pharmacies, the harbour-front restaurants along Storgatan where the crayfish dinners in August draw half the county. The medieval church of Sankt Olof and the old wooden town quarter give the place genuine historical texture — this isn't a resort town, it's a real community that happens to be surrounded by one of Sweden's most photogenic coastlines. Uppsala, with its cathedral, university, and full range of city amenities, is around an hour south. Stockholm Arlanda Airport is approximately ninety minutes by car, which puts this property within easy reach for international buyers flying in from across Europe.
Sweden's property market has shown consistent resilience in coastal and archipelago regions, driven by enduring domestic demand and growing international interest in Scandinavian second-home culture. Freehold ownership — full title, no leasehold complications — gives international buyers straightforward legal standing. EU citizens face minimal friction in purchasing; non-EU buyers should take independent legal advice on the standard Swedish acquisition process, which is transparent and well-regulated. The property's scale, condition, and unique coastal position give it solid rental potential during the peak Swedish summer season (late June through August), when demand for private waterfront properties in the Stockholm archipelago corridor consistently outstrips supply.
Seven bedrooms across a main house and a separate guesthouse makes this property genuinely flexible in ways that a single-building home of similar size wouldn't be. Multi-generational family summers. Groups of friends. Rental income in the weeks you're not there. The layout accommodates all of it without feeling crowded.
Key features at a glance:
- 7-bedroom main house (1992) with 135 sqm of living space plus additional secondary space
- 5 bedrooms with direct water views over the Swedish archipelago
- Separate guesthouse — the original building on the estate — ideal for guests or rental
- Large wraparound timber deck covering roughly half the house perimeter
- Private boat berth at the shared dock with direct archipelago access
- Swimming ladder on the rocks for direct sea swimming
- Multiple outbuildings for equipment, tool, and recreational gear storage
- Open-plan kitchen and living room with panoramic sea-facing windows
- 2 bathrooms
- Freehold tenure — full ownership title
- Located at the tip of Söderön island, Östhammar Municipality
- ~15 minutes to Östhammar town centre
- ~90 minutes to Stockholm Arlanda Airport
- ~60 minutes to Uppsala city
- Surrounded by rich natural habitat: eagles, chanterelles, orchids, wild berries
Properties at this end of Söderön come to market rarely. The combination of scale, condition, waterfront access, and the separate guesthouse is genuinely hard to find in this part of the Uppsala archipelago — most comparable properties are smaller, lack a private berth, or haven't been maintained to this standard. This is the kind of place that families hold for generations, and the reason this one is available at all is the simple arithmetic of inheritance and change, not any flaw in the property itself.
If you've been looking for a Swedish archipelago vacation home that gives you real space, a proper berth for the boat, and room for the whole family without compromise, get in touch through Homestra today to arrange a viewing. Properties like this don't wait around.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 7
- Size
- 135m²
- Price per m²
- €3,815
- Garden size
- 2000m²
- 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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