LOCARLA: The most accurate and comprehensive UK Public Sector Procurement Portal

We have analysed the performance of the largest housing associations (based on stock) from the latest returns.

Places for People Group Clarion Housing Group Northern Ireland Housing Executive Sanctuary Housing Association L&Q Group Guinness Partnership Peabody Trust Riverside Wheatley Group Home Group

Sovereign Housing Association Notting Hill Genesis Anchor Hanover Group Platform Housing Group Torus Hyde Group (The) Metropolitan Thames Valley Bromford Group Optivo Orbit Group

Together Housing Group Jigsaw Thirteen Group Wakefield & District Housing (WDH) LiveWest Homes Ltd (formerly Liverty) Radian Group Citizen Gentoo Group Onward Homes Midland Heart

Turnover – 2019	Turnover – 2018	Difference	Change
£11,882.45M	£11,772.71M	£109.74M	0.93%
Operating Surplus – 2019	Operating Surplus – 2018	Difference	Change
£3,472.27M	£3,609.29M	(£137.02M)	(3.80)%
Repairs Satisfaction – 2019	Repairs Satisfaction – 2018	Difference	Change
89.77%	88.89%	0.87%	0.98%
Operating Cost Per Home – 2019	Operating Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£4,073.98	£3,856.12	£217.86	5.65%
Average Days to Relet – 2019	Average Days to Relet – 2018	Difference	Change
27.91	27.54	0.38	1.37%
Repairs & Maintenance Cost Per Home – 2019	Repairs & Maintenance Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,156.55	£1,105.58	£50.97	4.61%
Management Cost Per Home – 2019	Management Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,092.37	£1,042.19	£50.18	4.82%
Responsive Repairs Service Cost Per Home – 2019	Responsive Repairs Service Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£791.64	£736.01	£55.63	7.56%
Routine R & M Expenditure – 2019	Routine R & M Expenditure – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,090.70M	£1,029.75M	£60.95M	5.92%
Planned Maintenance Expenditure – 2019	Planned Maintenance Expenditure – 2018	Difference	Change
£595.51M	£525.36M	£70.16M	13.35%
Improvement Works – 2019	Improvement Works – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,397.90M	£1,252.43M	£145.48M	11.62%
Void Losses – 2019	Void Losses – 2018	Difference	Change
£98.67M	£87.88M	£10.79M	12.27%
Number of Employees – 2019	Number of Employees – 2018	Difference	Change
71,142	71,069	73	0.10%
Wages – 2019	Wages – 2018	Difference	Change
£2,144.07M	£2,070.66M	£73.41M	3.55%
Chief Executive pay – 2019	Chief Executive pay – 2018	Difference	Change
£8.31M	£7.74M	£0.57M	7.40%
Chief Executive pay per home – 2019	Chief Executive pay per home – 2018	Difference	Change
£6.48	£5.97	£0.51	8.61%

Click here to find out more about what we provide and please get in touch if you think we can help or have any questions to ask.

LOCARLA: The most accurate and comprehensive UK Public Sector Procurement Portal

We have analysed the performance of the largest housing associations (based on stock) from the latest returns.

• Places for People Group
• Clarion Housing Group
• Northern Ireland Housing Executive
• Sanctuary Housing Association
• L&Q Group
• Guinness Partnership
• Peabody Trust
• Riverside
• Wheatley Group
• Home Group

Turnover – 2019	Turnover – 2018	Difference	Change
£6,276.87M	£6,329.70M	(£52.83M)	(0.83)%
Operating Surplus – 2019	Operating Surplus – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,842.26M	£1,901.97M	(£59.71M)	(3.14)%
Repairs Satisfaction – 2019	Repairs Satisfaction – 2018	Difference	Change
90.35%	89.75%	0.60%	0.67%
Operating Cost Per Home – 2019	Operating Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£4,278.11	£4,174.22	£103.88	2.49%
Repairs & Maintenance Cost Per Home – 2019	Repairs & Maintenance Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,325.72	£1,319.75	£5.97	0.45%
Management Cost Per Home – 2019	Management Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,208.64	£1,033.00	£175.64	17.00%
Responsive Repairs Service Cost Per Home – 2019	Responsive Repairs Service Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£872.92	£848.44	£24.48	2.89%
Routine R & M Expenditure – 2019	Routine R & M Expenditure – 2018	Difference	Change
£563.05M	£535.98M	£27.08M	5.05%
Planned Maintenance Expenditure – 2019	Planned Maintenance Expenditure – 2018	Difference	Change
£361.79M	£316.31M	£45.48M	14.38%
Improvement Works – 2019	Improvement Works – 2018	Difference	Change
£829.50M	£863.20M	(£33.70M)	(3.90)%
Void Losses – 2019	Void Losses – 2018	Difference	Change
£50.93M	£44.56M	£6.37M	14.30%
Number of Employees – 2019	Number of Employees – 2018	Difference	Change
38,290	38,016	274	0.72%
Wages – 2019	Wages – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,160.20M	£1,110.68M	£49.52M	4.46%
Chief Executive pay – 2019	Chief Executive pay – 2018	Difference	Change
£3.08M	£3.14M	(£0.06M)	(1.84)%
Chief Executive pay per home – 2019	Chief Executive pay per home – 2018	Difference	Change
£4.34	£4.45	(£0.11)	(2.52)%

Click here to find out more about what we provide and please get in touch if you think we can help or have any questions to ask.

We have now added the Dashboards and this is how they work ….

Open the LOCARLA Contract Table

1. Build a table using ‘Select Options’. For this example I’m going to build a simple tender table which will show me every current tender, from all sectors, UK wide and including all Trades.

 

2. Select ‘Contract Type’ and then select ‘Tenders’

 

3. The options you select will appear in a list.

 

4. Save your search

 

5. Click on the title arrow

 

6. Locate the saved table in the list and click on the Dashboard icon

 

7. Every search you make in the Contract table will produce a Dashboard.

 

If you would like a quick run through over the phone please call Gaz on 020 8772 6426

From 76 Financial Returns currently available.

The UK’s largest organisations working in Social Housing use LOCARLA for marketing, research, sales & leads.

Turnover – 2019	Turnover – 2018	Difference	Change
£11,906.57M	£11,628.86M	£277.71M	2.39%
Operating Surplus – 2019	Operating Surplus – 2018	Difference	Change
£3,455.77M	£3,580.57M	(£124.80M)	(3.49)%
Repairs Satisfaction – 2019	Repairs Satisfaction – 2018	Difference	Change
90.35%	90.74%	(0.39)%	(0.43)%
Operating Cost Per Home – 2019	Operating Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£4,016.39	£3,855.44	£160.95	4.17%
Average Days to Relet – 2019	Average Days to Relet – 2018	Difference	Change
21.52	23.36	(1.83)	(7.85)%
Repairs & Maintenance Cost Per Home – 2019	Repairs & Maintenance Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,181.65	£1,075.08	£106.47	9.90%
Management Cost Per Home – 2019	Management Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,134.84	£1,073.82	£61.03	5.68%
Responsive Repairs Service Cost Per Home – 2019	Responsive Repairs Service Cost Per Home – 2018	Difference	Change
£742.35	£697.91	£44.44	6.37%
Routine R & M Expenditure – 2019	Routine R & M Expenditure – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,105.65M	£1,051.32M	£54.33M	5.17%
Planned Maintenance Expenditure – 2019	Planned Maintenance Expenditure – 2018	Difference	Change
£616.95M	£531.50M	£85.45M	16.08%
Improvement Works – 2019	Improvement Works – 2018	Difference	Change
£1,495.88M	£1,534.15M	(£38.28M)	(2.50)%
Void Losses – 2019	Void Losses – 2018	Difference	Change
£90.46M	£82.73M	£7.73M	9.35%
Number of Employees – 2019	Number of Employees – 2018	Difference	Change
66,567	66,101	466	0.70%
Wages – 2019	Wages – 2018	Difference	Change
£2,039.18M	£1,950.58M	£88.60M	4.54%
Chief Executive pay – 2019	Chief Executive pay – 2018	Difference	Change
£11.65M	£11.70M	(£0.04M)	(0.38)%
Chief Executive pay per home – 2019	Chief Executive pay per home – 2018	Difference	Change
£25.10	£25.15	(£0.05)	(0.18)%

Please get in touch if you think we can help or have any questions to ask.

Locarla is business intelligence software for organisations & people working with, or in, Housing Associations and Local Authorities. We provide data on Housing, Marketing, Finance, Contracts and Planning & Development.

Our reputation has been built on supplying exceptional data and information since 1997 under our Housingnet brand. Clients also like our customer service too.

There are 3 main tables on Locarla;

1. Companies – Detailed information on 3118 Housing Associations, Local Authorities & affiliated organisations, contractors & suppliers.
2. People – 21,000 B2B sector wide contacts
3. Contracts & Tenders – 42,000 active contracts and daily sales leads specific to the Built Environment.

And a Resources section containing Stock & Contract Mapping, Finance & Housing, Reports, News & Minutes, Planning Applications, Contract Registers, Expenditure Sheets and updated Repairs, Maintenance and Construction League Tables & Market Share Analysis.

Navigation Menus

Companies
Select options to filter results
Open the information panel by clicking on a company name
View all data by opening the side panel menu

Save multiple searches

Show / Hide and Move table data columns.

Checking the tick box will add further columns of information or hide columns that you don’t need.

Change the order of the columns by clicking and dragging the 4 dot icon up and down the list. The table will re-order when you hit Save.

 

Contracts & Tenders

The most accurate and comprehensive repairs, maintenance & construction sales leads in the UK.

Use the ‘Home’ icon to set your Home page search and the Star icon to use as your Daily Tender Alert content. We send Tenders, Contracts, Minutes and News in our Daily Bulletin.

Contract notices open in the right hand panel

Search the Contracts to see what your competitors are working on.

Or view contracts by organisation.

 

Universal Map

The Universal Map combines our Housing and Contracts Map to create a one stop shop for all our mapping projects.
Mapped Housing Stock
Stock by Local Authority & Ward
Brownfield, Green Belt & Flood Plain overlays
Organisations by Name or Location
Contracts Mapped
Contractors Mapped

Isolated Nottingham City Council housing stock in purple
Floodplain overlay selected showing homes falling in these areas in red
All other HA / LA homes in grey
Brownfield site overlay showing locations in brown.

Email us at hello@locarla.com or phone Amy on 07813 430 973

To refine the contracts sent in the Bulletin please set up a search in LOCARLA and select it as your Bulletin content using the guide below.

If you don’t have time to do this send the Locations and the Trades you want to see on the Bulletin and we will set it up for you.

Minutes are still currently set up on Housingnet.

 Steps to set up your Daily Tenders and Contract Award Notices on the Bulletin.

• 1. Go to LOCARLA and select your preferred options from ‘Location’ and ‘Trades & Services’.
• 2. Click on the Save icon and give it a suitable title such as ‘Daily Bulletin’.
• 3. In the title drop down list you will see your saved search with a star icon next to it. Select the ‘Star’ and confirm the pop-up.
• 4. The following day you will start receiving the Bulletin with your preferences. Only the latest Tenders and CANs will be sent each day.

If you get stuck let us know what your preferences are and we will set it up for you. helpdesk@locarla.com

For all Company, People and Contract searches please move on to the LOCARLA system as it is by far the best way to sort, search and access the data. Try this and you’ll never go back …

Daily Tenders

1. Select ‘Tenders’ from Contract Type, then filter the records based on your requirements.
2. Select a ‘top level’ category to include all results or refine further by selecting specific trades and services.
3. Selected options for each table are displayed and can be edited or deleted. Each search can be saved and will update automatically as new tenders are added each day.
4. The more options you select the more refined your results will be.
5. Tenders are updated every day and tender alerts are sent by email based upon the selections you make.

 

Competitor Analysis

1. Select ‘Contract Awards’ (or you can just type your keyword).
2. Type a company name or any keyword eg. roofing, boilers, schools
3. All records matching your description will be displayed. For multiple winners hover over the name displayed to see all companies awarded the work.

 

Pipeline / Expiring Contracts

1. To view contracts expiring within a time frame select the range from ‘Expiring in …’ from the Select Options menu.
2. This search filter is showing all current ‘R&M’ contracts in the North West and North East of England in the Housing and Education sector expiring between 1 and 3 years time.

 

Table Menu

1. Once you have saved a table it can be accessed from the title drop down by clicking on the arrow.
2. Selecting the ‘house’ icon will make that search the homepage so will open by default whenever you visit the Contract section.

 

We are continuously working on LOCARLA and release a new update version each Friday and will do until we complete the project.

If you have a ‘paid for’ or ‘free licence’ to Housingnet you need to be using LOCARLA to access Company data. Our clients who have moved across have not looked back.

1. Refine the records in the table using the ‘Select Options’ menu
2. Selected Options can be viewed, edited and deleted.
3. The more you refine the options the less records will be displayed
4. Sort records in alpha or numerical order by clicking on the header title
5. Search in the selected records by name or refresh the table and search all records.

1. Sort stock high to low
2.  Select a Company Name to view details
3. Side panel data
4. Menu items are available based on licence permissions

Already signed in to Housingnet – click here to visit LOCARLA

Only ‘double opted-in’ free licence people can access LOCARLA. Update your settings after sign in.

If you work for a Housing Association or Local Authority you can register for free.

Any questions, please ask – hello@locarla.com

LOCARLA is a new system we have been working on which totally changes the way we deliver information to our clients. Built around our core data sets – ‘Companies, People & Contracts’, LOCARLA can be loosely described as a ‘populated CRM’ for the Housing sector.

Since 1997 we have been delivering data predominantly related to housing,  but with the addition of Contract and Business Intelligence data we now cover Housing, Education, Health, Commercial, Government & Garages/Parking – hence, we are also changing our name.

We are not removing anything that currently appears on Housingnet. We have just figured out a way of displaying it in a more user friendly way.

This new system will also enable us to deliver an API service allowing clients to connect our data to their software, such as Salesforce or MS Dynamics. The code we have used to build LOCARLA and its design allows us the flexibility to bolt on other functionality including CRM and Bid Management tools.

The LOCARLA system is based around a central ‘spreadsheet’ of records which can be filtered and then saved. Panels of data are used to explore more detailed information on each housing association, local authority, contractor and supplier.

Active Premium Users can view the LOCARLA project here if you are signed in to Housingnet.

 

 

Each ‘Company Name’ is linked to the side panel where we display information relating to each organisation including; Housing, Finance, Contracts, Stock & Contract Mapping.

 

 

The tables can be organised by adding and removing data columns and by changing the order of the columns by drag and drop in the Edit Table window.

 

 

To filter the table records select the data you want to include from the filter options menu. Checking each box will remove all other records and every search can be saved.

Example searches:
Companies – Housing Associations in Bedfordshire with over 5000 units in management that have Central Heating contracts due to expire next year.

Contracts Table – New tenders in the Housing Sector relating to roofing contracts in the South West of England.

 

 

Every saved Contract search builds a Dashboard giving you easy access to an overview of relevant information and the ability to see what your colleagues are working on.

 

 

Housingnet is not going anywhere for a while. We will be running both sites in tandem until all the content has been moved across and the functionality completed.

For a single user our Premium Licence to access all our services is £4950 as an annual cost with additional user licences available for £480 pa. You can also pay monthly by direct debit for £475.

The Commercial Licence for ‘Company’ and ‘People’ data which includes stock mapping and development data costs £1150 for a single user and £50 for each additional user.

VAT excluded.

If you would like an on-line demo or a chat about how we can save your company time, money and steal a march on the competition, please get in touch:

Email us at hello@locarla.com or call 0208 772 6426