CHS Group has successfully moved to the FRS 102 accounting requirements using component accounting software from Real Asset Management. Under SORP 2010, CHS saw its asset register increase from around 2,000 property records to over 26,000 componentised assets. Eager to upgrade from its previous spreadsheet-based system when component accounting was first introduced, CHS Group recognised…
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047 - September 2015
22nd century housing repairs – a glimpse into the future
What will the housing providers’ repairs service look like in the future? This article (the first of two in this and the next edition of Housing Technology) from Chris Potter, ROCC’s Uniclass director, is his personal view of some very probable scenarios and others a little bit more fanciful, looking at what a 22nd-century repairs…
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Bristol Council selects Civica to transform tenant services
Bristol City Council has a signed a five-year, £1.9 million contract with Civica for a new cloud-based housing management system to support its 61,000 tenants. Civica’s Housing Cx software will enable the council’s staff to access all information about tenancies, rents, repair works and feedback in one place as well as give them up-to-date information…
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How Golden Gates generates £1m annual cashable savings
Peter Fitzhenry, managing director of Golden Gates Housing Trust, explains how the housing provider has generated savings of over £1 million in the last 12 months in addition to other non-cashable reductions and £500,000 in reduced building capital costs by introducing new technologies and processes. As government changes necessitate cashable reductions to ensure the future…
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Let’s get digital – transforming the IT-enabled home
Kevin Alderson, sales and marketing director at Tunstall Healthcare, considers the challenges and latest thinking around digital and IP technologies. It’s an exciting time for technology as we move into the digital world, but it’s a challenge to understand what it actually means for housing providers. Technology is moving towards fully digital/IP-based systems and there…
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A single version of the truth
A common problem for the majority of housing providers is that due to the plethora of business applications that each of them typically has, even a simple query such as ‘how many properties do we own or manage’ may result in different answers depending on which application is being used. The phrase ‘a single version…
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