Cordery Castle has signed Brentwood Housing Trust as a ‘pathfinder partner’ for its Castle Management System (CMS), a housing and asset management platform specifically designed for housing providers with up to 6,000 properties. Cordery Castle said that CMS covers everything smaller housing providers need, from tenant management to rent collection, and maintenance scheduling through to…
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059 - September 2017
Civica sold for £1 billion
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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Castle’s PanConnect app mobilises Coastal Housing
Coastal Housing Group has introduced the PanConnect app from Castle Computer Services to support mobile working. Rhian Waygood, IT systems business partner, Coastal Housing, said, “Our gas team is the first to use PanConnect for capturing data and creating CP12 certificates. The next phase of the programme will see it introduced into voids and lettings,…
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Virtual College gets tenants online
To help new tenants settle into their homes and support their pre-tenancy requirements, online learning provider Virtual College has created a range of online resources. Fiona Sheen, online learning advisor, Virtual College, said, “We were aware of the issues surrounding tenancy agreement failures widely expressed by the social housing sector. There is a need to…
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Partick Housing gets ‘desktop as a service’ from Castleton
Partick Housing Association has appointed Castleton Managed Services to deliver a cloud-based, fully-hosted ‘desktop as a service’, built on a Citrix XenApp architecture hosted in one of Castleton’s ‘tier III+’ UK datacentres. The project began in June 2017 and the new service is scheduled to go live later this year. Elaine Lewty, ICT business services…
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South Staffordshire cuts arrears to one per cent with Mobysoft
In 2016/17, South Staffordshire Housing Association achieved its lowest ever arrears in spite of ongoing welfare reforms and the one per cent rent cut, after its deployment of Mobysoft’s RentSense software. Samantha Allcott, income manager, South Staffordshire Housing, said, “Rather than waste extra resources and money on working through an inaccurate caseload, we decided to…
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