Property Improvements Case Management
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What is Property Improvements Case Management?
A Property Improvements case is the formal management of a tenant-led alteration to the home — typically a kitchen replacement, bathroom upgrade, flooring, decoration outside the routine standard, garden landscaping, internal door changes, additional sockets, or external works. Section 12 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (LTA 1985) gives secure tenants an implied right to improve their home with the landlord’s consent, which must not be unreasonably withheld; the Right to Improvement allows compensation in some circumstances under the Right to Compensation for Improvements (Secure Tenants) Regulations 1994. Equivalent provisions exist for many assured tenancies. The Regulator of Social Housing’s Safety and Quality Standard expects accurate records of stock condition, including alterations the landlord has consented to.
The operational challenge: an improvement starts as a consent request, becomes a surveyor visit, may involve building control, planning consent or party-wall agreement, and ends with a permanent change to the property’s asset record — and possibly a Right to Compensation entry if the tenant moves on. Without one shared record, the consent is granted but the asset register isn’t updated; the works get carried out but no surveyor signs them off; the reinstatement clause is missed at end of tenancy; and the next stock-condition survey cannot tell what is original and what is tenant-added. A single Property Improvements case carries the whole thing — consent, surveyor, asset-register update and end-of-tenancy reinstatement — through a clean process.
Property Improvements — End-to-End Workflow
- Logged — improvement request captured from any channel into one Property Improvements case in the Propsys360 Case Management module on Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Linked — joined automatically to the Tenancy, prior Permissions, Building Safety, Repairs and Stock Condition Survey records; the underlying property condition is the starting point.
- Decision — Section 12 LTA 1985 reasonableness assessed; decision recorded with reasoning and conditions; building control, planning or party-wall implications flagged.
- Surveyor visit — pre-works visit booked from the case; specification, sign-off conditions and any building-safety constraints recorded.
- Works carried out — tenant arranges the works against the agreed specification; landlord may inspect at agreed milestones; sign-off photos and certificates attached to the case.
- Asset register update — the improvement is added to the property’s asset record so future stock-condition surveys, voids and any Right to Compensation calculation start from the correct baseline.
- End of tenancy — at outgoing tenancy, reinstatement clause assessed; Right to Compensation for Improvements regulation 1994 applied where applicable; outcome recorded.
- Closed — case closed; learning fed into tenancy and asset-management policies.
Property Improvements Case Management in Propsys360
- One record, one version of the truth — every Property Improvements case lives in a single record in the Propsys360 Case Management module on Microsoft Dynamics 365, replacing surveyor folders, tenancy-officer email chains and the asset-team’s parallel notes.
- Linked across Propsys360 — joined automatically to the Tenancy, Permissions and Approvals, Building Safety, Repairs and Stock Condition Survey records; the property’s full picture is the starting point.
- Section 12 LTA 1985 reasonableness — decision framework built in; refusals evidenced and appealable; consent conditions held on the case.
- Surveyor sign-off — pre-works specification, milestone inspections and final sign-off captured on the same case; no improvement reaches the asset register without checks.
- Asset register update — every consented improvement updates the property’s permanent record so stock-condition surveys, voids and energy assessments use the right baseline.
- Right to Compensation for Improvements — qualifying improvements logged so the 1994 regulation calculation is straightforward at end of tenancy, not reconstructed.
- End-of-tenancy reinstatement — reinstatement clauses surfaced automatically at outgoing pre-termination; recharges or compensation processed through the linked Voids case.
- Reporting — improvements consented, surveyor sign-off rate, end-of-tenancy compensation and reinstatement outcomes; Regulator of Social Housing’s Safety and Quality Standard evidencing live.
Teams Helped by Property Improvements Case Management
Tenancy Officer — handles the Section 12 LTA 1985 consent decision with prior consents, current condition and any building-safety constraints on one screen.
Surveyor / Property Services — books pre-works and milestone inspections from the case; specification and sign-off photos attached without leaving the record.
Asset Manager — sees consented improvements landing in the asset register with the right component lifecycle and condition code; future surveys start from the right baseline.
Voids Surveyor — picks up reinstatement clauses and Right to Compensation cases at outgoing pre-termination with the full improvement history attached.
Resident — sees the consent decision with reasoning, the surveyor’s specification and the agreed conditions in one place; the process feels professional, not arbitrary.
Director of Asset Management — sees improvement volumes, consent decisions, end-of-tenancy compensation and stock-quality outcomes on one dashboard.
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