Housing Technology interviewed experts from Access PaySuite, Mobysoft, NEC Software Solutions, Solvares Field Service, TechLabs London and Voicescape about new technologies for 2026, out-of-sector ideas to consider, proptech vs. enterprise software and how to avoid technological distractions & dead-ends. New technologies to consider Engin Yilmaz, director of product innovation at Mobysoft, said, “Beyond the AI…
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Recruitment
Editor’s Notes – Our not-so-secret superpower
The Housing Technology team often talks to people who’ve just joined the social housing sector, typically from the commercial sector, either with a housing provider or with an IT/business provider focused on social housing. In every instance, the one thing we always emphasise to them is the lack of competition between housing providers and therefore…
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Editor’s Notes – Data matters more than ever…
As everyone in social housing is only too well aware, data is fundamental to every housing provider’s operations. Whether it’s upstream problems with data collection, entry and consistency or downstream issues with data integration, reporting and governance (and everything in between), data is one of the ‘existential pillars’ of housing providers’ operations and must be…
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Attracting and retaining the GenZ workforce
Much has been written and discussed about generational differences and the supposed stereotypical traits aligned with each group. As a GenX person (b. 1965-1980), I would say most of the GenX traits are reasonably accurate, in particular the concept of being motivated by working for a specific brand. I started my career with IBM and…
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Platform Housing welcomes its first digital apprentices
Platform Housing Group’s new Digital Future Academy is set to welcome its first six apprentices in September 2025. With its launch covered in the January 2025 edition of Housing Technology, Platform Housing’s academy is designed to open doors for individuals who may have faced barriers to traditional academic success, particularly those who are neurodiverse or…
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Editor’s notes
Data definitely matters… With the annual Housing Technology conference having just taken place and as we launch our fourth ‘Data Matters’ event in London, the importance of data to all housing providers’ day-to-day operations and their longer-term strategic ambitions cannot be overstated. The existential importance of data to housing providers was pithily summarised by Dr…
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