Following our last overview of the start-up IT companies in our sector (see Housing Technology magazine, January 2020), we return again for 2021 with a selection of ‘proptech’ companies and IT start-ups that are devoting either all or most of their focus on developing exciting new technologies for social housing, based on the recommendations we…
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Finance Management
GCH reduces arrears by £66,000 during lockdown
Gloucester City Homes has reduced its arrears by £66,000 since lockdown, following a change in approach and using Mobysoft’s RentSense. Becky Hayward, income collection and tenancy sustainment manager, Gloucester City Homes, said, “We stopped all enforcement at the start of the first lockdown. We wanted to speak to every tenant first to understand what they…
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Team Netsol’s housing benefit checker
Team Netsol has extended its BECS revenue and benefit systems with the launch of its Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Checker. HBAAC is designed to help local councils manage the mandatory full case reviews of their housing benefit caseloads, highlighting claims that have a high risk of undeclared changes or housing fraud. It also transforms the…
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Aareon’s Arthur launches live bank feed for housing
Hot on the heels of its recent acquisition by Aareon, Arthur has launched a fully-integrated live bank feed to make it easier for housing providers to streamline payments and accounting across their entire housing portfolios. Arthur has also gained its FCA Licence which means tenants and property managers are authorised to safely make payments through…
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Finance’s role in housing IT
Manningham Housing is a small and dynamic housing provider and we like to think that we punch above our weight – from an IT perspective, we want to be in the vanguard of embracing technologies not often used in the housing sector. Much of my focus during 2020 was negotiating a new financial facility for…
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Isle of Anglesey signs up with Mobysoft
Isle of Anglesey County Council has selected Mobysoft’s RentSense to help it with welfare reform and tackle the effects of coronavirus on its arrears. The council’s rent team was already dealing with the impact of universal credit before the start of the first UK lockdown, and it was aware that many of its peers in…
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