The big data revolution seems to be sweeping almost invisibly through business, academia, government, housing and everyday life. Defined as the collection, analysis, and visualisation of vast amounts of information, facilitated by clever algorithms, big data is seen by many as the biggest technology innovation since the birth of the internet. A recent survey carried…
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Mobysoft
Metropolitan targets 25% reductions with Mobysoft
Metropolitan Housing is using software from Mobysoft to gain a better understanding of its tenants’ rent arrears. In advance of the introduction of universal credit, the housing provider has spent three months implementing RentSense, a rent arrears decision engine which uses complex algorithms to analyse a tenant’s account and assess whether they are in genuine…
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Predicting and measuring rent arrears
Housing Technology asked Derek Steele, managing director of Mobysoft, for his perspective on the rent market, how income management teams are ‘getting smart’, the potential impact of welfare reforms and how they can be mitigated. After nine years of working with housing providers to optimise efficiency and improve businesses practices, it’s difficult to hear so…
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Trafford cuts rent arrears with mobysoft
Trafford Housing Trust has reduced rent arrears and improved income recovery staff productivity by 25% following the introduction of business intelligence software from Mobysoft. The new system focuses on distinguishing between technical and genuine rent arrears and in doing so, saves one day per week for each income officer. A technical arrear occurs when a…
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Beating the Budget
On 22 June 2010, Chancellor George Osborne made his first budget speech to the House of Commons in which he pledged to ‘balance the books’ by 2016, slashing a massive £11 billion from the annual public expenditure bill, with £1.8 billion being earmarked for savings in social housing in this parliamentary term alone. I think…
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Mobysoft trial nets Moat £37,000 of late rent
Moat has just completed an eight-week trial of Mobysoft’s rent arrears module, resulting in the collection of £37,000 of overdue rent. The success of the trial has meant that Moat has signed a longer-term contract with Mobysoft to reduce rent arrears across its 20,000 properties. Mobysoft’s rent arrears module bolts onto housing providers’ existing housing…
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