How to make the best bids to HCA

Webinar: Better HCA Bids with Inside Housing & Landmark Analytics

Friday 11 April – 11am – 12 noon

www.insidehousing.co.uk/hcawebinar

Inside Housing magazine is hosting a webinar that invites social housing providers to look at how to make the best possible bids for HCA funding. During the webinar, which is being run in conjunction with Landmark Analytics, speakers will also discuss how better information regarding a providers’ existing property portfolio can help underpin this process.

The rules to win HCA development funding have changed - landlords must now show they offer value for money.  During the webinar, delegates can hear from a senior HCA director on tips for great bids.  The webinar also provides an opportunity for delegates to learn how they can gather more intelligence about their existing homes and how this can ultimately help them better demonstrate their organisation’s value for money.

Speakers include:

•         Fiona MacGregor - Head of Affordable Housing at Homes and Communities Agency
•         Carole Oliver - Group Business Development Manager at Landmark Information Group
•       Phil Stephens - Development and Commercial Director at Sovereign Housing

Chaired By:       
        Martin Hilditch Acting Editor, Inside Housing

For FREE access to the webinar go to: www.insidehousing.co.uk/hcawebinar

HCA selects Landmark Information Group to deliver Housing Market intelligence, as part of its £4bn housing framework programme

·         England’s national housing and regeneration agency awards contract to Landmark to provide essential, robust property intelligence

·         Data to be used to inform the development and delivery of affordable housing programmes and help the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) meet its target to realise 150,000 additional homes by 2015

·         Landmark Analytics – formerly Calnea Analytics and part of Landmark Information Group – to deliver strategic market intelligence data to support HCA’s decision making processes

Landmark Information Group, the UK’s leading supplier of digital mapping, property and environmental risk information, today announces it has been awarded a contract by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). The contract is to provide property intelligence data to the housing and regeneration agency, to support the development and provision of its £4bn¹ capital investment programme into delivering affordable housing across England.

Via Landmark Analytics – formerly Calnea Analytics – the HCA will have access to a wide range of accurate housing market intelligence, including House Price Index data, average rental price data, bedroom counts and historic transaction information by postcode or area.  By analysing the data as part of its housing delivery programmes, HCA has complete transparency of the housing market in order to make better informed decisions.

The Landmark Analytics’ property database – which is used by HMRC and in models approved by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s – provides robust market intelligence and includes a wealth of data including 90 million property images, 20 million sold price records, 18 million historic estate agency listings, 2 million energy performance certificates, 3 million floor plans, plus bedroom numbers, estimated internal area and Council Tax banding information.

Simon Short, Team Leader – Spatial and Market Intelligence of HCA said: “The HCA requires robust housing market data to support its decisions. Landmark Analytics met our needs with quality of data provision to support our evidence base.  The Panel assessed Landmark Analytics against a set of criteria and agreed that it provides the best quality and value for housing market data provision that meets our needs.”

HCA is the national housing and regeneration agency for England, with a capital investment budget of around £4bn for the period 2012-15. The agency has a legal duty to improve the supply and quality of housing in England. Its remit includes delivery of a number of schemes including the existing National Affordable Housing Programme, Low Cost Home Ownership including the FirstBuy product and the new Affordable Homes Programme, which includes the Affordable Rent product.   The programme is focused on accelerating the delivery of affordable homes in England with a target of up to 150,000 additional homes by 2015.

Carole Oliver, Business Development Manager, Landmark Information Group said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with the HCA, providing essential, robust property intelligence to inform the development and delivery of key programmes. Landmark Analytics will provide vital evidence and market transparency on which the agency can base its decision-making processes for the provision of affordable and sustainable housing delivery.”

Landmark Analytics’ is the UK’s only ISO-accredited Automated Valuation Model (AVM) provider and is at the forefront of delivering analytics data to mortgage lenders for use in strategic risk management and fraud prevention programmes.

For further information www.landmarkanalytics.co.uk.  

Carole Oliver

Group Business Development Manager

Critical Asset Intelligence to Reduce Your Risk

Would your organisation have the critical asset intelligence ready for an ‘Asset Register’?
If the answer is no or you are unsure of where to turn, help is at hand from Landmark Analytics:

Following the publication of the white paper for an Asset Register, Housing Providers are looking for help in
accessing clear intelligence that provides clarity on exactly what land and property assets are owned by their organisation. As a result, Housing Providers are working with Landmark Analytics to access its wealth of market data and industry analysis to provide the answers they need. This includes the ability to visualise
portfolios, calculate accurate current asset valuations, digitally map properties with Business Intelligence, plus undertake supporting tasks such as address verification and data cleansing. Carole Oliver, Group Business
Development Manager at Landmark Information Group said: “The outcome of Cosmopolitan and subsequent white paper for an Asset Register has resulted in our clients coming to us for clear asset
intelligence. They want clarity on asset ownership and values, plus robust market intelligence for appropriate tenures, disposal & acquisition and investment strategy. Our expertise in being able to quickly and accurately analyse data and return it with transparency and highly visual direction is proving an essential element in their decision making process.” Concludes Oliver: “The majority of Housing Providers have inherited poor and
inconsistent business intelligence, and it is now more essential than ever that the sector can restore confidence to lenders and Government by demonstrating strategy based on accurate BI.”

Cases in point

Neil Topping, Business Processes Officer of Family Mosaic:
“With over 24,000 properties in our portfolio, it is vital that the information within our property database is accurate on a number of levels. We have undertaken an intelligence exercise with Landmark Analytics, which has a reputation for having one of the UK’s most accurate residential property databases. Our immediate need was to ensure all addresses in our database match the format of Royal Mail’s, however since working with Landmark, we have been able to analyse a wider range of metrics, such as bedroom count. This is particularly important as this information needs to be accurate for the benefit of our tenants. All in all, working with Landmark has saved us a great deal of time and they have been able to provide more intelligence than we were originally expecting at the outset.”

Julian Pimm-Smith, Head of Business Intelligence of Affinity Sutton:
“Affinity Sutton is a location-based business and the GIS visualisation of our asset and tenant information
is a critical component of our Business Intelligence suite. The ability to visualise our information down
to door-level accuracy gives our Asset and Housing staff a picture of their properties and patches that a
spreadsheet could not convey. Our Active Asset Management performance models are incredibly complex. They cover hundreds of detailed attributes over periods of 30 years on thousands of properties. The mapping of that data therefore turns huge sprawling datasets into clear drillable graphics, from the entire country, down through regions and estates, or even down to a single property and its individual financial and qualitative performance. This level of detail is essential for our operation and provides our mobile officers with the ability to access the information they need, via hand held devices, revolutionising operational delivery.”

Simon Short, Team Leader –Spatial and Market Intelligence of HCA:
“The HCA requires robust housing market data to support its decisions. Landmark Analytics met our
needs with quality of data provision to support our evidence base. The Panel assessed Landmark
Analytics against a set of criteria and agreed that it provides the best quality and value for housing
market data provision that meets our needs.”

To discuss how your organisation could benefit from an asset intelligence health check contact:
T: 0330 036 6275
E: carole.oliver@landmark.co.uk
W: www.landmarkanalytics.co.uk

Carole Oliver
Group Business Development Manager