Flogstavägen 1B: student flats in Ängsklockan, Uppsala

Flogstavägen 1B is part of Ängsklockan, Västmanlands-Dala nation's student housing area in Flogsta, western Uppsala. The address has postcode 752 73, and to live there you need to be a member of V-Dala nation, study full time in Uppsala and stand in the nation's housing queue.

What is at Flogstavägen 1B?

Ängsklockan is a residential area completed in 2020. According to Nationsgårdarna, through which the nation's housing foundation lets its homes, it has 388 one-room flats with kitchen and 14 corridor rooms. The builder Lindbäcks described the project as four buildings of six storeys when the construction contract was signed in 2019. Flogstavägen 1B is one of the addresses in the area: the foundation states that residents at Flogstavägen 1B may also use the bike rooms in the buildings at Flogstavägen 1C–E.

The flats are 25–40 square metres. The corridor rooms are 20–27 square metres, have their own shower and toilet and share a kitchen with two or three other rooms in the corridor.

How rent and living work

Flats and corridor rooms differ, and that affects what you pay each year.

• Flats: rent is paid twelve months a year. Heating is included. Electricity and water are not, but you sign no contract of your own – your actual use is added to the rent invoice.
• Corridor rooms: rent is paid ten months a year, as July and August are rent-free. Electricity, heating and water are included.
• Both: the homes are let unfurnished and broadband from Bredband2 is included in the rent.

Each building has its own laundry room booked with a tag, up to ten slots a month. The flats have a French balcony and there is a lift. Residents also get free membership of the OurGreenCar electric car pool.

Current rents for a specific flat are shown in the listing at Nationsgårdarna, as they vary by size.

How to get a home at Flogstavägen 1B

Homes in Ängsklockan are not let through the municipal housing queue but through the nation's own queue. The steps according to V-Dala nation:

1. Become a member of V-Dala nation. The housing foundation only lets to members of the nation, and under Nationsgårdarna's application rules you must also study full time at a university or college in Uppsala.
2. Create a profile with Nationsgårdarna. This puts you in the housing queue.
3. Collect queue points. You get one point per semester as a member. Some roles at the nation give extra points.
4. Apply for the homes that are released. Your queue points decide your place in the queue.

At the start of each semester the nation usually also holds a lottery giving a few rooms to newly arrived students, usually in so-called "tripletter" in another of the nation's areas. The lottery can be a way to get a roof over your head during your first semester while you collect points.

The area around Ängsklockan

Flogsta is a district about three kilometres west of central Uppsala, built around 1970. Flogstavägen runs as a ring around the area. On the hill in Flogsta are the high-rise buildings on Sernanders väg with student corridors, and in the north-west is Flogsta centrum with a supermarket. There are bike lanes and buses into the centre.

Like the nation's older area Majklockan, Ängsklockan lies between Rickomberga and Ekeby. More on the district's history and buildings is in Wikipedia's article on Flogsta.

If you are not a student or do not get a place

If you are not a student, or have too few queue points, you will need to look elsewhere in Uppsala. The usual approach is to join several queues at once: the municipal housing queue and private landlords' own queues. Hyresgästföreningen has an overview of how housing queues work and what they usually cost.

A sublet can be a way in meanwhile. Check that the first-hand tenant has the landlord's permission to sublet and that the rent is reasonable for the flat.

Common questions

Who is the landlord? The homes in Ängsklockan are owned by V-Dala nation's housing foundation, which lets them through Nationsgårdarna.

What is the postcode of Flogstavägen 1B? 752 73 Uppsala.

Are the flats furnished? No, both flats and corridor rooms are let unfurnished.

Is electricity included? In corridor rooms electricity, heating and water are included. In flats heating is included, while electricity and water are charged by use on the rent invoice.