Mobysoft’s Rentsense software has helped Sovereign Housing Association to achieve its lowest-ever arrears figures of 1.7 per cent, resulting in more than £500,000 of additional rental income. Rentsense is an analytical tool that predicts which tenants are most likely to fall behind with their rent. This helped Sovereign focus its efforts where they would have…
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Mears’ online procurement with Mercato KnowledgeBus
Mears Group is using an online procurement tool from Mercato to make it easier and faster to buy new technologies with greater cost transparency and better certainty of the final prices. Mears Group has grown rapidly through acquisitions, and every time a new company is brought into the group, the IT team needs to react…
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Mobysoft appoints Glen Lewis
Mobysoft has appointed Glen Lewis as an account director to work with the company’s housing customers. Lewis, who is a member of the Institute of Housing, has spent over 25 years in the housing sector working both for landlords and technology providers. Most recently, he has held senior positions at Civica and Northgate Information Systems….
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SDS celebrates 20 years of ProVal
One of the social housing sector’s most enduring viability assessment tools, ProVal LS from SDS, is celebrating its 20th birthday. ProVal was the brainchild of SDS’s late founder, David Shelton, who wrote the original programme in 1996. At the time, very little appraisal software existed and ProVal helped local councils and housing providers to assess…
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Equity Housing cuts arrears with Rentsense
Mobysoft’s Rentsense software is being used by Equity Housing Group to reduce its arrears caseload from 1,000 cases per week to just 250. Before the introduction of Rentsense, Equity Housing took a list-based approach to arrears because its housing management system was ineffective for making recommendations about which arrears case should be investigated. Jonathan Brownbill,…
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Getting ready for pay-to-stay
Plans to make pay-to-stay compulsory for local authorities have proved somewhat controversial and have been beset by delays through parliament as a result of the changing political landscape. However despite these delays, from April 2017 local authorities will be required to charge pay-to-stay rents to their tenants in higher income brackets. It will remain discretionary…
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