The iOpt Property Maintenance Plan
Your 2025 Plan for Smarter Housing
Dane Ralston, CEO
“As the new year takes hold housing providers across the UK are facing familiar challenges: rising repair costs, aging housing stock, and the ever-present demand to do more with less. The answer to these challenges lies in a proactive, data-driven approach
to property maintenance that benefits budgets, homes, and tenants alike.
At iOpt, we believe innovative technology and actionable insights allow Housing Providers to take control of their stock. That’s why we’ve created the iOpt Property Maintenance Plan - a step-by-step guide to achieving stronger budgets, leaner repairs
and healthier homes.”
Why Proactive Maintenance Matters
For too long, property maintenance has been reactive—responding to issues when they are raised, often at great cost to budgets and tenant satisfaction. By shifting to a proactive model, you can pre-empt issues before they become a burden on your budgets, allowing for better planning, reduced costs, and healthier homes. Proactive maintenance isn’t just about technology. It’s about recognising that small, consistent efforts can prevent larger, more expensive problems down the line.
Step 1 - Warm Up
Assess your Current Strategy
Start by looking back at 2024. What worked? What didn’t? Highlight areas where reactive maintenance budgets were stretched and identify the properties that caused the most challenges.
A thorough review of your strategy will help you set achievable goals for 2025, whether that’s reducing emergency repairs for leaks or tackling damp and mould.
Step 2 - Build your Core
Prioritise High-risk Properties
Your stock is likely to be varied and have it’s own nuances. Focus on those that are causing the biggest headaches - whether it’s due to age, location or tenant complaints. By prioritising these properties, we can work with you to make sure resources are allocated more efficiently and sent where they are needed the most.
Step 3 - Use the right Equipment
Install iOpt Sensors
Our easy to install, non-invasive sensors help you understand the condition of a property without needing a visit. Combined with our bespoke data platform, we can reveal issues such as poor ventilation, undetected leaks and the inefficient use of energy. Allowing you to tackle issues before they become costly.
This step is about working smarter, not harder. We help you understand the story behind your data, you make informed decisions about resolving issues. Easy.
Step 4 - Monitor Progress
Use Data to Predict Maintenance
By working closely with the iOpt team, we can provide tailored alerts, offer suggested actions and feed data into existing Housing and Workforce Management Software.
This helps to streamline your repairs and and provide healthier homes for your tenants. maintenance efforts, reduce the budget burden
Step 5 - Continued Success
Future-proof your Housing Strategy
The benefits to introducing data insights to your repairs and maintenance programs will be clear from day one.
With regulations around stock information, Net Zero and Living Standards on the horizon, now is the time to futur-proof your properties and use data insights to plan smarter and get more from your budgets.
Ready to take control of your property maintenance strategy in 2025? The Proactive Property Maintenance Plan is your roadmap to: