Our second property on Nesodden

My parents bought the property about twenty years ago, following the bursting of the 1980s housing bubble and the subsequent collapse in property values. Their primary interest was to prevent others from buying it and developing it in a way that would reduce the view from our house. Owning it also let us remove view-blocking trees at our discretion.















It's a forested property, featuring a single red cabin, variation in elevation, and many trees (including a wild cherry tree). The soil is fertile and home to many blueberry bushes and little creatures.















In recent years, my mother started thinking about building a second house. It would be on this second property and it is intended as a relatively cheap way to ensure a separate house for my brother and myself without having to spend unnecessary amounts of money buying a new property with a house (especially during the current housing bubble).

We have hit two obstacles in building this house: first, the municipality put a moratorium on future construction and development until it had finalized a development plan for the community; second, an archaeological sampling of the property found pieces of worked flint, evidence of Stone Age human habitation. Elaborating on this second point, archaeologists theorize that this part of Norway was inhabited by the Nøstvet culture and that this property was beach front property approximately seven thousand years ago (the land had been suppressed by the prior Ice Age and has since risen significantly).


Area currently protected for further archeological investigation.









The first-mentioned obstacle is the most significant one though, and early this year it came to a close when the municipality ended the moratorium (it has not yet finalized its development plan, which it has taken several years to work on thus far). We are now seeking to have the property as a whole released from its status as being of archaeological interest (which also prevents us from starting construction) and are pushing for an excavation to be done as early as possible this summer.