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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Repairs & Maintenance
L&Q’s £60m repairs move to Totalmobile
L&Q has chosen software from Totalmobile for the scheduling and fulfilment of repairs within its transformation and change portfolio. L&Q’s £60 million repairs and maintenance service will be upgraded to Totalmobile’s Field First platform, bringing scheduling and service delivery together within a single system. By combining scheduling and service delivery within one platform, Field First…
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APS selects Propeller for workforce management
Propeller has implemented a cloud-based workforce management system for Arthington Property Services (APS), the in-house contractor for Leeds Federated Housing and responsible for planned maintenance on 1,000 properties homes in Leeds, Wakefield and North Yorkshire. Propeller’s software enables operatives to be managed remotely, with jobs assigned in real time. Through a mobile app, APS operatives…
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Fighting disrepairs with data
The importance of data in protecting housing providers in disrepair cases The housing sector is facing a sharper focus on property conditions and landlord accountability than ever before. Awaab’s Law, which was prompted by the tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak due to prolonged mould exposure and introduced in the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023,…
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Broxtowe Borough Council accelerates repairs with Totalmobile
Broxtowe Borough Council has partnered with Totalmobile to modernise how it manages housing repairs, voids and compliance jobs. Launched in September, the new digital platform will replace manual scheduling and spreadsheet-based voids management with dynamic job allocation, real-time reporting and mobile access for the council’s frontline teams. The decision to move to Totalmobile’s FSM platform…
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Luton Borough Council signs with Totalmobile for repairs
Luton Borough Council is partnering with Totalmobile to update its repairs and maintenance services. The council’s new repairs platform from Totalmobile will provide advanced field-working, real-time workforce management, asset management and performance monitoring, with the aim of improving its response time for repairs, streamlining internal processes and cutting costs. Ifti Awan, project manager, Luton Borough…
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