Twin brothers Andy and Chris McLaughlin have completed a management buy-out of their family business, the Cheshire-based MIS Group, supplier of the well-known ActiveH housing management system. The McLaughlin twins have bought MIS Group through a four-year deferred consideration for a near eight-figure sum. The business has been bought from its founder, their father, Stewart…
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Housing Management
You can’t get there from here…
It’s fair to say that from an IT systems’ perspective, the housing sector is at a crossroads in terms of how it deals with the challenges of mobile, digital, data management and, most recently, capabilities such as AI and IoT. Meanwhile, the IT procurement history in the sector has been predominantly ‘best of breed’ acquisitions,…
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North View Housing opts for HomeMaster
North View Housing is set to implement Designer Software’s HomeMaster web-based housing and finance management system. The new system is planned to be operational by December 2019. Euan Anderson, director, North View Housing, said, “We have been impressed by the Designer Software team and their in-depth understanding of our requirements. HomeMaster’s complete operational mobility will…
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Designer Software wins Molendinar Park Housing
Molendinar Park Housing has signed a five-year contract with Designer Software for its HomeMaster housing and finance software. Julie Smillie, director, Molendinar Park Housing, said, “Excellent service delivery and value for money are obviously vital to us, and by switching to HomeMaster we are confident that we will improve both. We are excited to implement…
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How to build better technology
Let’s start with a search for affordable housing in the UK… the first thing you’ll find is uncertainty. We need more homes, and we needed them yesterday. But just building homes isn’t enough to solve the nation’s affordable housing crisis. Millions of people already live in social housing, with a waiting list that’s twice as…
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Housing and the Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA) was enacted as part of a package of measures introduced by the Labour government aimed at improving the operation of the UK government by making it more accountable to the electorate through increased transparency. It directly affects ‘public authorities’ which are defined in a list contained in Schedule…
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