Circle Housing has launched five short films to celebrate the benefits of apprenticeship schemes in the housing sector. Each film (online at www.circleopportunities.org.uk) follows an apprentice from Circle Housing as they complete a day’s work at the organisation. Samantha Caunt was one of the apprentices to take part after swapping places with Circle Housing’s chief…
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038 - March 2014
Questioning the value of value for money
From Alistair MacLeod, Director, Waterstons. Sir – While value for money has always been important for social landlords, recent noises from the regulator suggest the effectiveness of consistently achieving it is under scrutiny, as doubts have been raised over the actual value received from procurement contracts. In my experience, a common problem for any organisation,…
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More choice, more decisions
From Jacqui Stoggall, Director of Consultancy, Sovereign Business Information Group. Sir – The ICT market in housing shows no sign of slowing as business transformation programmes fuel the procurement of new software, driven not only by service delivery objectives but also by the need to help the business deliver ever-increasing levels of efficiency and effectiveness….
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HCA’s £4bn housing programme with Landmark
Landmark Information Group has been awarded a contract by the Homes and Communities Agency to provide property intelligence data to support the development of its £4bn capital investment programme for affordable housing across England. Via Landmark Analytics (formerly Calnea Analytics), the HCA will have access to a wide range of housing market intelligence, including House…
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Landmark launches social housing heat maps
Landmark Analytics has extended its property market data to provide social housing density analysis for urban or property studies. The ‘heat maps’ add an extra layer of data into the concentration of social housing, as well as information on average prices, crime rates and ‘cost per sqm’ data. Drawn from various data sources, the heat…
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Landmark’s asset management & geocoding for Affinity Sutton
Affinity Sutton is using address verification, geocoding and visualisation services from Landmark Analytics, a division of Landmark Information Group, for the management, maintenance and improvement programmes for its portfolio of 57,000 properties. Affinity Sutton has been able to apply ‘door level mapping’ to all property assets in its data warehouse and GIS platforms, providing a…
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