Halton Housing Trust has chosen 1st Touch’s Caretaker software for its estate services and environmental teams across 140 communal flat blocks and over 200 green spaces. By using the software, recurring appointments are scheduled through 1st Touch’s diary facility. On completion of the activity, this creates a contact in Halton’s Aareon QL housing management system…
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RAM puts Abertay Housing on the road to FRS & SORP compliance
Abertay Housing Association has implemented component accounting software from Real Asset Management to ensure compliance with FRS 102/SORP accounting standards. The new software will replace its multiple spreadsheet-based processes and reduce the manual effort needed to manage its £24 million asset base. Marjorie Sloan, corporate services director, Abertay Housing Association, said, “We are looking forward…
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The connected van and beyond – What digital can do for asset management
Digital services have become extremely important in the modern commercial world. By using digital innovation, companies can improve their employee and asset productivity; providing increased customer satisfaction. It’s true for every sector that businesses who fail to adapt to the digital landscape risk being left behind by their competitors. Alternatively, a new market disrupter, such…
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Bad apples – An open letter to the housing sector
Dear Social Housing Sector, Two members of Gabriel Star were fortunate enough to attend the Tenant Management Forum at Old Trafford recently. After standing in awe at the beautiful stadium and sipping coffee, the forum’s attention turned to sharing ideas and discussing best practice for managing interactions with tenants. Speakers formed a procession to stand…
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Thames Valley Housing goes digital for its tenants
2015 was an ‘annus horribilis’ for UK housing providers, plunging them into what the Financial Times described as their biggest financial crisis when the July Budget saw the Chancellor impose a rent reduction of 1 per cent a year for the next four years. Coming hot on the heels of cuts to welfare and changes…
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Oxford City Council goes live with Mobysoft’s RentSense
Oxford City Council has deployed Mobysoft’s RentSense software in advance of the introduction of universal credit. The council was one of the government’s universal credit pilot projects to test the impact of direct housing payments to tenants. Having seen an initial increase in arrears during the pilot project, the council realised that it needed to…
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