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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Finance Management
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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Asra Housing cuts arrears with Mobysoft’s RentSense
Asra Housing Group has been using Mobysoft’s RentSense software to reduce its rent arrears from six per cent in 2012 to just under four per cent by March 2015, representing around £1.65 million. In 2012, Asra Housing was using its housing management system to manage arrears, but was experiencing several issues. Simon Cousins, income manager,…
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Hexagon Housing predicts arrears with Mobysoft
Hexagon Housing Association has bought Mobysoft’s predictive technology to help mitigate the effects of on-going welfare reforms. Tom Harding, housing services manager, Hexagon Housing Association, said, “It has become much harder to maintain our performance; over the past few years, the nationwide economy has meant more tenants are finding it harder to prioritise their rent…
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An asset beyond the standard
Rob Griffiths, deputy chief executive and chief financial officer at Longhurst Group, explains how modifying an online system provided a cost-efficient solution to a new compliance standard. The Homes and Community Agency’s governance and financial viability standard has once again raised the bar for regulatory compliance in the UK’s housing sector. So this year, asset…
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