One of the issues facing many housing providers during the pandemic has been about how their employees can engage with one other while working from home. Webinars are useful and phone calls have their place, but nothing quite matches up to face-to-face meetings. In an effort to fill this gap, Thirteen Group has turned to…
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Housing Management
Loreburn Housing opts for Designer Software
Loreburn Housing Group has signed a five-year contract with Designer Software for its HomeMaster web-based housing and finance software. In order to deliver improvements in data analytics and agile working, Loreburn Housing needed to move from its previous on-premise legacy housing and finance system to a web-based system, with the pandemic forcing the housing provider…
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Ready for STP?
In a recent survey, we asked, “Has coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns accelerated your digital plans?”, and over two-thirds of respondents said yes. This acceleration in digital is being driven by being able to offer more services online and in better-defined ways. The rise of the ‘digital tenancy’ is huge for the housing sector and…
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Notting Hill Genesis live with Techlabs’ iProperty Cloud
As part of a wider digital transformation programme, Notting Hill Genesis has just gone live with Techlabs London’s iProperty Cloud sales module after a 10-week implementation. Rajiv Peter, director of digital technology, Notting Hill Genesis, said, “We chose TechLabs London because of its collaborative approach as well as being easy to deal with. It also…
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‘IT test-bed’ residences from MIS Group
In an interesting development, IT provider MIS Group has branched out and bought a number of residential properties with a view to using them as a test-bed to trial innovations in housing management technology. The newly-created Mirca Properties will provide rental accommodation to tenants, managed through MIS’s ActiveH Web housing management system and IT services…
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Bad housing data, or how much is ‘Lodnon’ costing you?
This edition of Housing Technology is heavier on ‘data’ than normal, in part owing to our main feature article on data integration and straight-through processing as well as numerous contributed articles from data experts in our sector. In much the same way that a philosophical construct or mathematical theorem is only as strong as its…
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