By Daisy Dawnay
A lakeside estate
This grand, late 19th-century estate occupies 2.5 hectares on the shores of Lake Fryken. Formerly owned by the late football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, the property is a fitness playground with a 100 sq metre indoor pool, sauna, gym and tennis court. The main house has 13 bedrooms and six bathrooms, while a modern guesthouse with its own private lagoon-shaped beach was added in 2005. On the market for SKr25mn ($2.25mn).
A Swedish farmhouse
This farm dates to 1752 and has been in the same family for 11 generations. The house — painted in the classic Swedish Falu red — includes 175 sq metres of living space with four bedrooms and three traditional tiled stoves. The separate barn has been newly renovated, with solar panels and a heat pump supplying its apartment and sauna, and there is space to add a gym. Currently on the market for SKr4.9mn (about $440,000), the property offers easy access to country pursuits, with salmon and trout fishing on the river Surtan, paddocks around the house — and all only 40 minutes’ drive from Gothenburg.
A hilltop home for entertaining
Dating to 1866, Torps Herrgård is a 406 sq metre manor house on a hill overlooking Lake Vättern, the second-largest lake in Sweden. A grand entrance hall for welcoming guests flows through to interconnecting living and dining rooms with views over the water, and doors open on to a wooden terrace beyond. The property, which is just 15 minutes’ drive from Jönköping, is on the market for SKr12mn (about $1mn).
A summer house by the sea
This three-bedroom summer house near Malmö, in the south-west of Sweden, sits right on the sea in the small fishing village of Barsebäckshamn, and has spectacular views over the waters of the Öresund strait. The interiors are simple and charming with exposed wooden beams and a traditional fireplace, while a sheltered garden behind the house has two sizeable oak trees providing cover for the wooden terrace where you can sit out on summer evenings. On sale for SKr12.5mn (about £900,000).
A traditional 1800s manor
Two-and-a-half hours’ drive from Stockholm lies Bispbergs Klack, a mountain in the Dalarna region of Sweden. Originally a centre for iron ore mining, the town of Bispberg’s former ironworks, train station and workers’ cottages remain, along with this fully renovated historic manor house (main picture, top, and below) dating to the early 1800s, surrounded by parkland and gardens. The 10-bedroom house is on the market for SKr12mn (about $1mn) and includes three rental properties.
Photography: Christies International Real Estate; Sweden Sotheby’s International Realty
