By Legal Futures Associate SearchFlow [1]
Housing associations, with their large, diverse, and complex portfolios, find themselves facing aggressive government targets on energy performance and development, while struggling with often decentralised, inconsistent and unstructured data on their asset portfolios. As a result, planning and decision-making can be fraught with uncertainty.
Data is, of course, a valuable resource with the potential to make it easier for housing providers to better manage, maintain, acquire, and dispose of properties, as well as identify locations for new homes and make informed investment decisions, both now and in the future. Yet not every housing association can attest to having a dedicated, data-led asset management strategy that enables them to establish and follow agreed standards, follow robust procurement processes, and measurably accelerate sustainability initiatives.
As part of Landmark Information Group, SearchFlow is actively responding by helping housing providers access and harness the best data tools, solutions, and frameworks to understand and manage the overall asset picture and identify site risks. Some of the keyways in which we do this are:
- Establishing conveyancing frameworks for housing consortia to provide members and their legal teams with a compliant route to market with fixed-price access to all elements of conveyancing search data, including local government, national data organisations, HM Land Registry and commercially provided market information.
- Offering an expert-led portfolio service [3] for 5,000+ properties, enabling housing providers to outsource time-consuming admin and clarify geolocation data irregularities seamlessly.
- Integrating a powerful due diligence tool, the Data Layers functionality (powered by Landmark’s Promap service) into our search platform, which enables customers to gain a detailed view of the complexities and challenges of a specific site, enhancing analysis and reporting as a result.
These offerings represent simple and reliable ways to take decisive steps towards an effective, data-driven asset management strategy, providing the foundations for a clear framework from which to maintain, manage, acquire, and dispose of assets, ensuring housing products are fit for purpose, meet the latest safety standards, and are on track to meet the government’s carbon reduction deadlines by 2050.
Realising the benefits of data-informed asset management is within reach. Backed by 25 years’ experience and the largest resource for property and land data in the UK, SearchFlow is uniquely well positioned to partner with housing providers to make it a reality.
Click here [5] to find out more, or contact Rob Steadman [6], Business Development Director, to discuss further.