Asset Management
What we offer:
Rand Associates can provide you with cost effective solutions to help ensure your housing stock is being efficiently maintained to a high standard. We provide a variety of services to social landlords, including:
Asset Management Strategy
Your Asset Management Strategy sits at the core of how you wish to manage and maintain your stock in the coming years. Now, more than ever, it is important to ensure you have right policies in place to ensure the best service is provided to your residents. Our experience indicates that the key to realistic and reliable Asset Management Strategy is involvement from all parties from the outset. Our experience can help you produce the Asset Management Strategy that not only helps you efficiently manage your stock, but more importantly, helps you to meet and surpass residents needs and expectations.
Stock Rationalisation
As the economic climate becomes harsher, the need to ensure efficient and effective asset management becomes more evident. It is now more important than ever to consider whether there are properties within your housing stock that should be considered for management or ownership elsewhere. Rand Associates have the experience of working with clients to help make these crucial decisions on particular groups of properties.
Capital Investment Programmes
The development of a programme of capital works is often one of the most complex and time consuming tasks undertaken by an Asset Management Department. Most commonly, the starting point will be data collected as part of a Stock Condition Survey. Although we are well versed in creating programmes based on our own data, we have developed methodologies for working with a clients own data, in a variety of different systems. It is crucial that the development of any programme is specifically tailored for that particular client's needs. We recognise the need to work closely together to ensure that any capital programme reflects not only the condition of the stock, but also any legislative requirements, current or future policies, and most importantly residents needs and expectations.
Database Health Checks
Many of our existing clients hold their own stock condition database, populated with data that has been collected internally, or from a variety of sources. When dealing with the day-to-day pressures of Asset Management, it is often easy to over look ensuring the long-term accuracy of data within your Stock Condition database. We would normally recommend that any live database is subject to an annual review to help ensure not only the accuracy of the data, but also that the structure and use of the database reflects the clients intended policies for the future. We would look to work with you to ensure your database is fit for purpose for the next 12 months and beyond.
Audit Of Existing Housing Databases
In addition to performing/assisting clients with annual database health checks, it is sometimes necessary to assess the validity of a database that may not have been subject to a full validation for some time. We can provide you with the knowledge and experience that will enable you to bring your database back into a live environment, and become once more a dependable tool on which your staff can rely.
Why Choose Us?
Rand Associates has a team of professional, qualified and dedicated surveyors, located in both the South East and North West. Our surveyors hold the relevant qualifications and accreditations. We have extensive experience with Large Scale Voluntary Transfers, ALMOs and Estate Renewal Challenge Fund Bids. Our team are dedicated to quality procedures and keeping up-to-date with the latest legislation. We pride ourselves on building long-term relationships with clients, receiving repeat business and gaining new customers via word-of-mouth.
For more information call one of our team on (01737) 249475 or use our contact form here 