Thames Valley Housing Association has been using Clearview’s business intelligence and reporting suite in order to assess the financial impact of the government’s right-to-buy and pay-to-stay policies on its operations by building a financial model. Chris Roberts, data analyst, Thames Valley Housing Association, said, “We chose to use Clearview because it is perfectly suited to…
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Finance Management
Midland Heart dials up Rostrvm for universal credit
Midland Heart and Rostrvm Solutions have developed a bespoke call-dialling system in order to mitigate the effects of the introduction of universal credit by improving rent collection rates and reducing arrears. Midland Heart is using the system to get in touch with tenants via voice alerts and text messages as soon as their agreed payments…
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Two Saints’ accounting with Paloma Systems
Homelessness charity Two Saints is using Paloma Systems’ Harmonia and WRAPP software for rent accounting, monitoring its supporting people requirements, exit questionnaires and outcome monitoring. Nigel Miles, IT manager, Two Saints, said, “We originally looked at Paloma’s WRAPP rent account system in 2012 to replace our old rent accounting package when we were introduced to…
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Lake’s housing finance survey 2016
Cost reduction and streamlining are necessities driven by the twin pressures of rising demand for housing and funding constraints. Purchase-to-pay and procurement systems have a crucial role to play and have been a particular area of interest for housing providers’ finance departments in recent years. According to a recent survey from Lake Financial Systems, investment…
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Trace Solutions & One Housing develop service-charge software
In partnership with One Housing, Trace Solutions has developed a new software package to help housing providers to manage service charges and rental calculations across complex portfolios of rented, owned and part-owned properties. The software is based on Trace’s off-the-shelf property management package which is widely used in the private sector to provide a complete…
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Advanced ConsultCRM – Using CRM to tackle arrears
Housing providers should be making better and more intelligent use of technology to tackle their arrears following welfare reform, according to Advanced ConsultCRM. This follows a recent study which found that 90 per cent of tenants receiving universal credit are in arrears, three times higher than the sector’s average for arrears. Advanced said that access…
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