Increase sales productivity with Dynamics 365 and ClickDimensions. Last December, Homes England reported that during April-September 2020, the number of housing starts was the lowest since 2012/13, at 11,313 homes. Housing completions had also decreased to 11,358 houses, the lowest since 2015/16. However, the reduction of both housing starts and completions is in part due…
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Plentific’s online maintenance & repairs at Centrepoint
Homelessness charity Centrepoint is set to use Plentific’s platform to manage the repairs and maintenance of its hostels for homeless young people. Through the platform, Centrepoint will be connected to a marketplace of approved local contractors and gain insights about the repairs and maintenance operations of its properties. Plentific’s technology platform and online marketplace will…
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Plentific expands online contractor platform
Plentific has upgraded its online repairs and maintenance platform so that housing providers can now use it to manage their existing contractor relationships. The platform’s new ‘appointed contractor’ feature means housing providers can choose to assign work orders to a mixture of their preferred contractors, their own workforce or from Plentific’s marketplace of approved contractors,…
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Bad housing data, or how much is ‘Lodnon’ costing you?
This edition of Housing Technology is heavier on ‘data’ than normal, in part owing to our main feature article on data integration and straight-through processing as well as numerous contributed articles from data experts in our sector. In much the same way that a philosophical construct or mathematical theorem is only as strong as its…
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Sheffield Council streamlines with Totalmobile
Totalmobile has contracted with Sheffield City Council to streamline the housing repairs processes for its 44,000 council houses with smart job management and mobile technology. Totalmobile’s Connect software is expected to be fully operational by September 2021. The council wants to continue digitising its processes and minimise the time spent by its workforce logging and…
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West of Scotland Housing gets RentSense
West of Scotland Housing has bought Mobysoft’s RentSense software to help it mitigate the effects of the pandemic and welfare reform on its increasing arrears. Robert Campbell, director of housing and community services, West of Scotland Housing, said, “The impact of the pandemic on some of our tenants and their ability to pay their rent…
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