Civica has been sold for £1,055 million by Omers Private Equity to Partners Group. Omers, the pension provider for municipal employees in Ontario, bought Civica in 2013 for around £400 million. Since its acquisition of Civica, Omers has invested in key organic growth initiatives as well as mergers, where Civica has acquired and integrated 12…
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Housing Management
Building your own housing management system
There’s an old saying, attributed to Oscar Wilde, that, “we may all be lying in the gutter but some of us are gazing at the stars”. It makes me think of the incongruity between, on the one hand, the lack of real choice and the diversity of options when it comes to the housing systems…
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Hastoe Housing chooses MIS AMS
Hastoe Housing has chosen MIS AMS’s ActiveH housing management software to manage 7,400 homes across its predominantly rural portfolio of properties, including 250 villages with varying degrees of mobile phone signal. The new software is scheduled to go live in March 2018. Hastoe has bought all ActiveH modules, including desktop, rents, assets, lettings, planned maintenance,…
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Northgate moves to SaaS
The latest generation of Northgate Public Services’ housing management system is now based on software-as-a-service (SaaS), enabling its customers’ tenants and housing staff to access the same software and perform any relevant housing operation from any device. Tenants will be able to use self-service to pay rent, report repairs and apply for housing online via…
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Soha Housing service improvements with Aareon
Soha has opted for Aareon QL to support its business in all aspects of tenant and property information. In addition to providing better housing and asset management functionality, Aareon QL will improve Soha’s CRM abilities, enable the creation of a new self-service portal, and support more advanced mobile working. The QL implementation project began in…
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Orchard wins five-year extension with Catalyst Housing
Catalyst Housing has just signed a five-year agreement with Orchard to continue its use of Orchard Housing, Promaster and Wisdom Document Management. As part of the deal, the housing provider has also added Orchard Messaging to its existing package of applications in order to manage SMS exchanges with its tenants relating to rents and arrears.
