Mergers and partnerships in social housing have been gathering pace as a growing number of housing providers look for M&A benefits such as efficiency savings and economies of scale, making housing more affordable, and creating opportunities to build more new homes. Following the success of the mergers and partnerships presentation at the Housing Technology 2019…
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Finance Management
A new approach to repairs – Data aggregation and mapping
I once worked with a housing provider that had a mystery problem. The number of tenant complaints it received suddenly shot up. Every week more people grumbled about their home. Some reported wet walls and window condensation, others talked about damaged furniture and a few tenants said they were having breathing difficulties. Operatives were dispatched,…
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LandInsight Go for mobile development assessments
Proptech pioneer LandInsight has expanded its development site sourcing platform with the launch of a mobile app to make it easier to find and assess property development opportunities. The LandInsight Go allows users to save potential sites in under three seconds, check ownership and parcel area information for any site wherever they are, and initiate…
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Pobl’s mobile repairs from Vantage & Cloud Dialogs
As part of its post-merger transformation programme, Pobl Group commissioned performance specialists Vantage to re-design its assets team’s structure and repairs and maintenance operating model. As a result of the merger, Pobl found itself running two repairs teams spread over a wide area, each with its own IT systems and ways of working. Pobl appointed…
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Housing mergers & managing customer data
The merger of Two Castles Housing and Derwent & Solway Housing to form the 7,000-home Castles & Coasts Housing in July 2017 involved a range of IT challenges; some specific to the project and others that all M&A programmes will face. Shaw Consulting was engaged to manage the IT workstream of the merger on behalf…
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Guinness signs up for 221Group’s Holmes
The Guinness Partnership will be using 221Group’s asset management and intelligence software, Holmes, for its 66,000 properties and associated assets over the next five years. Chris Jones, asset optimisation manager, The Guinness Partnership, said, “We were very impressed by the Holmes product and it was clear from the outset that the platform would become a…
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