In economic terms, land is worth what someone will pay for it. As land is a limited resource, the person who can pay the most for a piece of land will win when competing against others. The process by which the land price is arrived at is a key difference between housing associations and private…
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Shelton Development Services
Remote learning programme from SDS
Author: Christopher Wandel, Shelton Development Services Things happened fast. One day we were coming in to work as usual, the next it was bumping into the odd colleague who also happened to be on a looting trip searching for screens and clearing out drawers in anticipation of a new domiciliary life. Our remote learning programme,…
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SDS launches new asset management consultancy
Shelton Development Services has just launched a new asset consultancy to help the housing sector. Born out of SDS, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of project appraisal, control and profiling software, SDS Asset Consultancy reported that it will be using ‘active asset management’ to deliver the necessary business intelligence to understand its customers’ current…
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Problems with Right to Buy
Sir – As the election approaches, another day, another promise. The Conservative’s manifesto commitment to give housing association tenants the Right to Buy (RTB) was launched with great fanfare and certainly hit the headlines. But it will also hit very substantial obstacles if the Tories win. They were clearly wooing ‘hard-working’ people in an attempt…
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Are housing providers losing their appetite to develop?
Sir – At the time of writing (early August 2014), the Homes and Communities Agency had just allocated more than half of its £1.7 billion grant funding for the 2015-2018 affordable homes programme and it’s clear that some of the biggest landlords are shrinking their bids by between a half and two-thirds of their previous…
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Interview with SDS – IT, funding and politics in housing
After five years as CEO of Shelton Development Services, Housing Technology interviewed Phil Shelton about IT, funding and political changes in social housing. How has IT affected the housing sector since 2009 when you took over at Shelton Development Services? The technology has advanced considerably since 2009, when the iPhone 3 had only been out…
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