The third annual Housing Technology Awards took place during the Housing Technology 2026 conference in Nottingham earlier this month, with the winners announced during a special ceremony at the East Midlands Conference Centre. With the awards being judged by an external panel of the entrants’ housing peers (and free of any commercial sponsorship for complete…
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Finance Management
Income under pressure
Why financial resilience depends on intelligence, not instinct The social housing sector is under huge financial strain. Across the sector, increased repairs spending, interest-cover ratios and regulatory expectations around safety, quality and responsiveness are all rising. None of that is cheap and none of that is optional, and all of those elements depend on having…
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Mobysoft partners with Lightning Reach
Mobysoft has teamed up with Lightning Reach to connect at-risk tenants with tailored financial support. The partnership brings together early risk identification and proactive financial support to help housing providers reduce arrears and improve tenant outcomes. More than 125 housing providers use Mobysoft’s RentSense, covering around 2 million tenancies, to identify tenants at risk of…
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A turning point for social housing – From reactive arrears to proactive financial support
When I look at today’s social housing sector, one thing stands out – we’re at a turning point. Access PaySuite’s latest 2025 Rental Arrears Index shows that 40 per cent of social homes are now in arrears. That translates to £655 million of potential uncollected rents, and that could rise by up to £240 million…
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Ardenglen Housing’s record-low arrears with Mobysoft
Ardenglen Housing has reported that it has cut its arrears to a ten-year low of 1.8 per cent (fy2024/25) following the use of Mobysoft’s RentSense software for its income management activities. Since implementing RentSense around ten years ago, Ardenglen Housing has maintained arrears well below sector averages alongside case-completion rates by its income team of…
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RentSense councils top Scotland’s income-collection rankings
Mobysoft has reported how Scottish local councils using its RentSense software have consistently outperformed their non-RentSense peers for income collection, based on their 2024/25 ‘annual return on the charter’ (ARC) submissions. Across all Scottish councils using RentSense, the average income collection rate for 2024/25 was almost 102 per cent compared with 99.9 per cent among…
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