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 Management
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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Social value – Lip service or lasting legacies?
In September’s incredible new-look edition of Housing Technology, social value cropped up several times. We read about ‘greening your IT procurement’ from Anthony Collins Solicitors which included a reminder that social value also needs consideration in our sector’s procurement processes. We read how Civica will be planting trees and helping with park restoration following winning…
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Second-generation ASAP from Ark
Ark Consultancy has launched its second-generation Ark Strategic Asset Performance (ASAP) model. Building on the success of the original ASAP model, ‘Gen 2’ is a dynamic, cloud-based solution providing information on stock performance from a quantitative and qualitative perspective, using data sets from internal and external sources, market intelligence, and customer and staff feedback to…
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Rugby Council invests in RentSense
Rugby Borough Council has bought Mobysoft’s RentSense software to reduce its arrears cases and support vulnerable tenants. Before the pandemic, the council was implementing a new housing management system, but it was concerned that welfare reform and staffing constraints would impact its ability to collect rent and support tenants, prompting its investment in RentSense. Raj…
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