Djurgården

Djurgården is unlike anywhere else in the capital, a royal island given over almost entirely to parkland, where forests, meadows and beaches sit minutes from the city centre. Part of the world's first national city park, it hosts Stockholm's great cultural institutions, from Skansen and the Vasa Museum to the ABBA Museum and the rides of Gröna Lund, drawing millions of visitors a year to its leafy paths. Amid all this lies one of Stockholm's smallest and most exclusive residential communities: a scattering of historic villas and heritage apartments on Crown land where new building is all but forbidden. That scarcity is the investment story. Values run well above mainstream Stockholm and selling can take time, but for buyers seeking a green, serene and genuinely rare address within the capital, Djurgården has no real equivalent.

Djurgården in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden