74m² Coastal House with Private Boathouse & Build Permit in Bjørøyhamn, Bergen



Fløsteinspollen 40, 5177 Bjørøyhamn, Bjørøyhamn (Norway)
0 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 74m² Floor area
€176,106
House
No parking
0 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
74m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand at the kitchen window on a still Tuesday morning and you'll hear nothing but the soft lap of saltwater against the boathouse hull below. That's the kind of quiet that people drive hours to find—and here, it's your address. Fløsteinspollen 40 sits on the island of Bjørøy, a small, deeply unhurried corner of the Norwegian coast roughly 20 minutes from Bergen's city center, and it comes with something almost no other coastal property at this price offers: a private boathouse, a 684 square meter plot, and a building permit already approved and waiting.
The house itself was built in 1940 and it shows its age—honestly, that's part of the point. The bones are solid, the footprint is workable at 74 square meters, and the whole thing is a blank canvas for someone who wants to shape a holiday retreat exactly to their own taste rather than inheriting someone else's renovation choices. Ground floor gives you a hallway, bathroom, kitchen, and a 22-square-meter living room that splits naturally into a sitting zone and a dining space. A wood-burning stove anchors the living room and on cold October nights it earns its keep. The windows are generous, pulling in the coastal light that Bjørøy gets in abundance during the long Scandinavian summers. Upstairs, a 29-square-meter loft runs the width of the building—open, flexible, yours to configure. Sleeping loft, bunk room for kids, reading nook overlooking the water. No official bedrooms are registered, which actually gives you total freedom to lay out the upper level however you see fit.
The building permit is real and it is active. It covers construction of a new holiday home on this plot, change of use, and extension. That's an enormous head start that typically takes months to secure in Norwegian coastal municipalities, where shoreline regulations are tight. The permit also links to the neighboring plot (gnr 50 bnr 749), which is separately available. Buy both and you're looking at a combined development site with genuine scope; purchase this one alone and you simply notify the municipality to confirm your path forward—a straightforward process.
Then there's the boathouse. Private boathouses on the Norwegian coast are not easy to come by, and they're even harder to add to an existing property given current planning rules. This one is already here, already part of the title, and it completely changes how you use the place. Pull a small motorboat out of the water for winter, store kayaks year-round, keep fishing gear ready to go. The practical value is obvious, but the lifestyle value is the real story—you can be on the fjord inside of five minutes from your front door.
Bjørøy itself is the kind of island that doesn't ask for much attention and gets plenty of it anyway. The surrounding archipelago around Bergen, known collectively as the island municipality of Øygarden and the coastal fringes of Bergen Vest, is woven through with marked hiking trails, small fishing coves, and the kind of raw granite shoreline that makes Norwegians deeply territorial about their summer cabin spots. The island connects to the mainland by road through a series of tunnels, so while you feel remote—and you are, genuinely, in the best sense—you're never actually cut off. Bergen Airport at Flesland is around 25 to 30 minutes by car. Bergen's Bryggen wharf, with its UNESCO-listed medieval buildings, Saturday fish market, and year-round restaurant scene, is the same.
Bergen itself is a city that rewards repeat visits. The Fløibanen funicular to the top of Mount Fløyen gives you the whole city and fjord system at once; the food halls around Mathallen and Torget serve up fresh skrei cod and fjord shrimp that taste fundamentally different from anywhere else in Europe. Come July, the Bergen International Festival wraps up, and the summer social calendar shifts to outdoor concerts at Festplassen, boat trips through the Hardangerfjord, and long evenings that technically never go fully dark. Winters here are grey and moody and genuinely atmospheric—Bergen averages more rainfall than almost any European city, which sounds like a selling point for no one, until you're inside with the stove going and the sound of rain on a corrugated boathouse roof.
For families, the practical setup works well. A primary school sits within a 21-minute walk, a secondary school slightly closer. The nearest supermarket—Kiwi Hilleren—is six minutes by car. Vestkanten shopping center, with a full range of shops and services, is a 10-minute drive. A bus stop seven minutes on foot handles public transport connections for those using this as a full-time or part-time residence.
For international buyers eyeing this as a holiday home or second residence in Norway, the ownership process is relatively uncomplicated. EU and EEA citizens face no restrictions; non-EEA buyers should take standard legal advice but will generally find Norway's property acquisition framework transparent and well-structured. The property is priced at NOK 176,106—an entry-level figure for what it includes, and one that reflects the renovation work required rather than any weakness in the location itself. Coastal plots with boathouses near Bergen simply do not appear at this price point with a building permit already in place. The market here, particularly for holiday homes along the Vestland coastline, has seen consistent interest from Bergen city residents and international buyers alike, driven by the near-total absence of new-build opportunities in the protected coastal zone.
Key features at a glance:
- 74m² detached house built in 1940 on a 684m² coastal plot
- Private boathouse included in the title—rare and practically irreplaceable
- Active building permit approved for new holiday home construction, change of use, and extension
- 29m² upper loft with flexible layout potential
- Wood-burning stove in the 22m² living room
- 1 bathroom with water heater (2011)
- Neighboring plot also available for combined purchase
- 20-minute drive to Bergen city center
- 25–30 minutes to Bergen Airport Flesland
- Kiwi Hilleren supermarket 6 minutes by car
- Bus stop 7 minutes on foot
- Direct access to fjord, hiking trails, and the surrounding Bjørøy archipelago
- Priced as a renovation project with serious development upside
- Norwegian coastal holiday home and second home market with strong local demand
If you've been looking for a coastal project with genuine potential rather than a finished property that looks like every other refurbished cabin in the region, this is worth your full attention. The plot, the boathouse, and the permit together are a combination that takes years to assemble from scratch—here they come as a package. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full technical documentation. The Norwegian summer is short and the serious buyers move early.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 0
- Size
- 74m²
- Price per m²
- €2,380
- Garden size
- 684m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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