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The BoKlok Sales Team for BoKlok on the Lake: Emma Plumridge, David Donin, Anna Burden, David Gibson & Helen Todd, on the sales event in Worthing.

Sales success in Worthing

This weekend, BoKlok hosted a sales event for the first release of apartments at BoKlok on the Lake - a new collection of one and two-bedroom apartments in Worthing. 70% of the apartments were reserved at the event and 86% of the purchasers are first time buyers.

Apartment ballot opening soon

Apartment ballot opening soon

In less than two weeks, the ballot for our one and two-bedroom apartments will be opening!! The ballot will open at 9am on Monday 1st November 2021, closing at 9am on Monday 15th November 2021. A draw will then take place at 7pm on Wednesday 17th November, with a sales event planned for Friday 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st November 2021.

The designs on the hoarding to the development BoKlok on the Brook

Top marks as BoKlok visits local schools

Two primary schools local to the BoKlok on the Brook site, take part in the BoKlok Homes for the Future design session. The session is designed to introduce children to new concepts in housing they would not have come across previously. Concepts like why building sustainable housing is so important, how BoKlok build homes that are high quality, and other aspects of the BoKlok value-based way-of-w

BoKlok seller Johan Stenis in front of his new home at BoKlok Arboristen in Falun, Sweden.

A smart life choice for a BoKlok seller

BoKlok Arboristen is situated in Falun, Sweden. It is a newly built, small-scale residential area where Johan Stenis has lived for a few months with his family. Whilst being a regular customer Johan Stenis is also an unusual customer, as he is an employee of BoKlok and sells BoKlok homes in Sweden.

Will Needham and Jerker Lessing during the podcasting session.

Jerker Lessing in the new podcast Future Distributed

In September, BoKlok welcomed Will Needham, founder of the Future Distributed podcast, focusing on innovative construction methods. BoKlok, being a sustainable, quality and low-cost home provider with an industrialised building process, had caught his eye. Jerker Lessing, research and development manager at BoKlok, was interviewed for the podcast.

The 36 volumetric elements in the film, took two days to assemble into an entire apartment building with three stories and 12 apartments.

36 apartment modules mounted in 60 seconds!

BoKlok is the sustainable, quality and low-cost home provider jointly owned by Skanska and IKEA, and we build our homes as volumetric elements indoors in an industrialised, modern way of building. On site, they are then assembled into homes.

Ellen McKnight and Luke Mintz on Ellen's balcony.

The Daily Telegraph curious about BoKlok

On Monday, Luke Mintz, a journalist at The Daily Telegraph, visited BoKlok in Sweden. BoKlok is the sustainable, quality and low-cost home provider jointly owned by Skanska and IKEA. The reason for the visit is the great interest in Boklok's brand and concept since the news that BoKlok expands to England came out in the beginning of the summer.

Clever homes for life

BoKlok is a home ownership concept from Sweden, owned by Skanska. We are a developer of sustainable residential communities with more than 25 years’ experience and so far we have developed about 15,000 homes across Scandinavia. BoKlok was established in the UK in 2019.

BoKlok is responsible for the entire value chain, from product development, project development and manufacturing in the factory to construction, sales and customer relations after moving in.

We combine Skanska's solid experience of building houses with IKEA's solid experience of furnishing them, creating sustainable homes and communities with high quality and beautiful design, that offer great value to the people who live there.

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