Touchstone Residential Property Management

🚀 Exciting News! Funding Applications Now Open! 🚀 The Places Foundation Impact Fund 2024/25 is officially open for applications! We're thrilled to offer grants of up to £25,000 to not-for-profit organisations making a real difference in our Communities. Our priority themes include: • Health and Wellbeing: Enhancing physical activity, mental health, and reducing loneliness. • Education and Employment: Providing access to education and job training. • Financial and Digital Inclusion: Supporting financial stability and digital literacy. • Sustainable Communities: Tackling food poverty and aiding local charities. Applications are open until 5pm on Friday, 20th September 2024. For more details and to apply, visit our General Information Page and check out our Application Guidance. For more information and to apply, visit https://bit.ly/47hGeqT Ready to make an impact? Submit your application today and join us in creating positive change! #Funding #Grants #CommunitySupport #PlacesFoundation #ImpactFund #Charity #SocialEnterprice

As we step away from X, we're reaffirming our commitment to fostering safe and respectful spaces for our Communities. #BecauseCommunityMatters 

Who lives in Build-to-Rent❓   We recently published the sixth edition of our ‘Who Lives in Build-to-Rent?’ report in partnership with The Association for Rental Living, BusinessLDN and Dataloft (now PriceHubble).   📈 The report analyses data from 32,000 renters in BtR units and an additional 9,000 renters in single family homes.   🙌 A huge thanks to the report's contributors: Apo Group Ltd, Federated Hermes, Get Living, Grainger PLC, Greystar, Invesco Ltd, LaSalle Investment Management, Lendlease, Long Harbour Ltd, M&G Real Estate, Placefirst, Places for People, Quintain Limited, Sigma Capital Group Limited, Simple Life, The Almere, and Touchstone Residential Property Management.   👉 If you want to get involved next year, please contact Theo Plowman.

We think it's going great! Thank you Residently 🙌😎

We think it's going great! Thank you Residently 🙌😎

We are excited to share our latest homes with you! The first and second tranche of new homes that we manage at Heyford Park, near Bicester Oxfordshire are now fully let with the assistance of estate agent, Chancellors. Heyford Park is an exciting new development, previously known as a former US and RAF airbase, which has now been transformed into a modern countryside village. The collection of two, three and four bed homes have been developed in partnership with Developer, Dorchester Living and Picture Living, Thriving Investments' Private Rented Sector platform, whose mission to deliver vibrant and healthy communities, supports our own 'Community matters' value. We plan to achieve an effortless customer experience with the help of Residently, and our customer App which enables residents to manage their tenancy from application to maintenance request, and customer communications. Claire Horsey, Portfolio Manager at Touchstone comments: ''We are very excited to take on the management of the largest Picture Living scheme to date. We have built a great relationship with both (Developer) Dorchester Living, and (Estate Agent) Chancellors. This has ensured a great success story when letting these well-built family homes which are in a terrific location. We are eagerly looking forward to taking on the next tranche on this site at he end of July, and already have customers lined up to move in.''

A great morning yesterday, big thanks to Sam Baker, Iterum and the sensational panel for leading a thought provoking session on all things ESG and how the Living Sector can adapt. There were talking points throughout, but even the incredible offices at Sustainable Ventures, were enough to get the mind drawn to what the future of the built environment should and could look like. At Touchstone we have clients who are engaged, but it’s time for us to suggest, assist and help lead change on E, S & G. Change in legislation/ grants and indeed incentives in retrofitting are coming and we want to be pushing forward from an informed starting point. It’s simply not enough to achieve a better EPC score, sure it’s a step in the right direction. But is the supply chain engaged with ESG? Does procurement reflect your common goals with clients? Can we install sensors within existing operational assets? Will we absolutely have to…potentially, yes! Lots to consider. Managing agents are often the last piece of the jigsaw, but we need to be involved as soon as we can on new projects. We really do drive and add value to critical design and operational elements. It might be the operational budgets need to start reflecting the coming changes that must be made - never an easy conversation, but a much easier one than “you now have stranded assets”. Touchstone Residential Property Management we already have an established working group to discuss and promote ESG. The time is now. AW

Our latest Build to Rent development in Brighton, The Blockhouse has been awarded a Wiredscore Gold Certification! We are often asked about the benefits, and what this accreditation means for our clients and customers. Our response; digital connectivity and the infrastructure to enable technological improvements are non-negotiable. This recognition underlines our commitment to continue providing customers with an enhanced living experience by introducing: 🏘 Smart building technology, ⚡ Extending wireless connectivity, 📈 Tracking our service performance more effectively and, 🔧 Future proofing our homes to allow for future development and technological integration. Harpreet Dosanjh, our Build to Rent Operations Associate Director highlights: ''As an operator, we have increasingly prioritised our connectivity experience as a key differentiator in the sector. Finding better ways to meet our customers' evolving expectations is becoming even more crucial for property managers, and recognised industry standards like WiredScore have enabled Touchstone to deliver leading services to our customers, while also future proofing our clients' assets.'' We want to congratulate all who helped us achieve this certificate!

The time for housing is now! As an experienced rental operator, we support the provision of more long term rental properties to address both housing shortages and fluctuations in the cost of living, as mortgages and house prices rise across all sectors. #TimetoBuild

We are eager to be an active participant when 'Bridging the Gap', to enable innovation in the Build to Rent space. According to KPMG, big data and data analytics are still predicted to have the greatest impact in the BTR sector in the coming years, playing an integral role in integrating technology into developments and the use of Proptech, and we are fully onboard! Kirpal Rehinsi, our Build to Rent Business Development Associate Director, when attending the ASK4 Ltd Proptech in BTR round table event, commented on the benefits and barriers for adoption: ''Proptech is important and something that we embrace. Our aim is to work effortlessly so Proptech needs to support us in our aims. The benefits of Proptech are about automation, helping our colleagues to deliver the best possible service they can. There must be a distinct advantage for our clients too, providing our clients with an advantage in their commercial, ESG and other goals, and allowing them to understand the asset, their data or understand the levels of information that they need in terms of reporting.'' We currently employ several Proptech solutions across our Build to Rent schemes and we will continue to improve our activities by working with our partners, welcoming the impact that Proptech will have on the sector in the coming years.  Watch the video below to explore more of the opinions and perspectives from the ASK4 roundtable event.