Landmark Information Group champions young talent in the housing sector

Confirmed as joint sponsor of 24Housing’s 2014 Young Leaders Award

Landmark® Analytics, a leading provider of residential property market data, analysis and automated valuation services, and a division of Landmark® Information Group, has confirmed its role as a joint sponsor of 24Housing’s 2014 Young Leaders award.  As an organisation that has an active apprenticeship scheme in place, Landmark is proud to be supporting the award scheme, which is designed to recognise talented professionals under the age of 30 from within the housing sector.

Last year’s winner was 25-year-old Hannah Allen, head of customer involvement and community development at Aster Group.  Hannah was recognised for her genuine record of achievement, which included designing and implementing Synergy Housing’s Neighbourhood Approach, which was so successful it was planned to be rolled-out across 27,000 properties in the South West.

Commenting on the award scheme, Peter Stimson, Managing Director – Financial Risk, Landmark Information Group said: “Nurturing young talent is a key focus at Landmark, and with an active apprenticeship scheme in place we are focused on finding and developing talent and giving people an opportunity. The 24Housing Young Leaders award showcases the wealth of talent that is already operating in the industry; we are proud to be involved and to hear the great work that is taking place every day to help shape communities across the UK.”

Now in its fourth year, the 24Housing 2014 Young Leaders award encouraged housing providers to nominate young leaders who have the potential to reach senior management level. A shortlist of top 20 candidates has been announced and online voting is now open until 23 May to determine the 10 semi-finalists, who will be subsequently be revealed in the June edition of 24housing.

Landmark provides a wealth of financial risk and intelligence services to the social housing sector. For further information visit www.landmarkanalytics.co.uk.  

Footballers Missing Millions

By Gerard Faulds

A recent report from the footballers’ charity Xpro believes that as many as 8,000 former players have forgotten pensions, including a well-known player who has £500,000 in a pension he didn't even know existed.   Almost anyone can lose track of their financial assets - it is estimated that over £10 billion of accounts, plans and policies have been forgotten or overlooked when an estate has been distributed.

Since the launch of Landmark’s ground-breaking Financial Asset Search (FAS) service in 2009, we have helped probate professionals to identify potentially huge sums of money belonging to the estate which had become lost or forgotten. Frequently, life policies and pension plans are identified where it is possible that the deceased was not aware that they even existed.

There are lots of reasons for this. In the case of life policies, around a third of all policies are purchased with a single premium,  meaning that reviewing bank statements some years later will not identify the existence of the policy as there are no regular premiums. What if the deceased purchased a single premium life policy was many years ago - how would you identify its existence if the paperwork was missing?

A Landmark Financial Asset Search (FAS) looks for these types of financial assets - those which are lost or forgotten. We contact over 200 financial institutions giving you confidence that the entire estate has been identified for distribution to the beneficiaries.