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.  

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

Landmark Information Group launches social housing heat maps

Landmark Analytics extends property market data to provide social housing density analysis for urban or property studies

Landmark Information Group, the UK’s leading supplier of digital mapping, property and environmental risk information, has today announced the unveiling of new social housing heat maps that highlight social housing density by postcode or region, at a glance. 

Via the Landmark Analytics division, the heat maps have been launched to provide an additional layer of data insight into the concentration of social housing property, as well as view average prices, crime information and ‘£ per sqm’ heat maps. 

Managing Director, Selwyn Lim of Landmark Analytics said: “Our aim has always been to find new and innovative ways to equip our users with key property data and so today’s announcement strengthens this.  The social housing heat maps will be of interest to a wide range of different users, from social housing organisations through to developers, local authorities or urban planners who are undertaking analysis of towns, boroughs or property density in general.”

Drawn from various data sources, the social housing heat maps will provide Landmark Analytics clients with access to data from across England and Wales. This freely available new addition to the Landmark Analytics product suite provides users with an overview of where social housing properties are clustered.  Users can type in the postcode of their area of interest, and navigate their way around, viewing the distinct differences in areas, and utilising the colour-coded key on to calculate percentage rates.

The accuracy and breadth of Landmark Analytics’ property database, which is used by HMRC, and in models approved by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s, supports housing officials with verifying and maintaining the overall quality of their internal records.  The Landmark Analytics database includes a wealth of data including 90 million property images, 20 million sold price records, 18 million historic estate agency listings, 3 million floor plans, plus bedroom numbers, estimated internal area and Council Tax banding information.

In addition, Landmark Information Group provides a wealth of consultancy, data and mapping services, including simple, online GI mapping solutions that enable housing providers to instantly identify areas of risk, visualise essential business intelligence and deliver significant efficiencies and improvements.

For further information visit www.landmarkanalytics.co.uk. 

Landmark provides asset management, geocoding mapping services to Affinity Sutton

Supports the creation of visualised representations of housing provider’s property assets for improved management and operational delivery

Landmark has been selected by one of the largest housing providers in the UK, Affinity Sutton, to deliver a range of address verification and geocoding services that supports the management, maintenance and improvement strategies for Affinity Sutton’s portfolio of 57,000 homes.

Via our Landmark Analytics service, the housing association has been able to apply ‘door level mapping’ to all property assets contained within its data warehouse and GIS platforms, providing a highly accurate picture of all properties. The organisation’s staff can now map repairs performance, long-term voids, tenant demographics or view issues as mapped clusters, enabling Affinity Sutton to develop enhanced improvement strategies.

Julian Pimm-Smith, Head of Business Intelligence of Affinity Sutton said: “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.  Whether we are mapping repairs performance, long-term voids or other information, the visualised data gives us the ability to better understand clustered issues and begin to develop improvement strategies.”

Adds Julian: “Our Active Asset Management performance models are incredibly complex. They cover hundreds of detailed attributes over periods of 30 years on tens of 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.”

Carole Oliver, Business Development Manager at Landmark commented: “Affinity Sutton is one of the largest housing providers in the UK and we are pleased to have been able to support the team in this large scale asset management and geocoding project.  By utilising Landmark Analytics’ address verification and geocoding services, the organisation now benefits from accurate, door-level mapping of all its property assets, creating significant management efficiencies.”