Following the acquisition of 1st Touch by Aareon in 2012, the two companies finally merged their operations in July 2017. 1st Touch remains as a legal entity and is solely focused on the development and support of mobile technologies, while its consulting, sales, marketing and administrative operations have been integrated into Aareon UK. At the…
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Housing Management
Cordery Castle partners with Brentwood Housing
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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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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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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