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VTUK today announces it has entered into a commercial agreement with the UK’s leading provider of telephone answering services, Moneypenny, which enables VTUK clients to benefit from Moneypenny’s market leading service.

SMS has revolutionised the way businesses communicate with and market to their customers. Here are some of the benefits:

VTUK’s Technical Support Department will be open over the festive period from the 22nd of December to the 30th from 10am – 2pm, not including the 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th of December. There is no technical support on Monday the 2nd of January and the office will be open as usual from Tuesday the 3rd of January. Please note that during the period no upgrades or installations will take place.

Greenwoods Property Centre was the first VTUK client to use the intergated PISCES ordering platform to order the Home Move Box feature within Version 8 of the software. Here's what they had to say:

Alphabet City use VTUK’s Gemini software to manage their portfolio of properties in and around London’s docklands. Since VTUK introduced SMS into their Gemini software, hundreds of estate and letting agents up and down the country have embraced SMS as a way to improve communication and run more efficient offices.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property solutions provider, will embark on a series of regional seminars across Britain to showcase the latest version of its letting and management software, starting in Scotland.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property solutions provider, has continued its rapid expansion with the employment of three new members of staff, with two more arrivals on the way.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property solutions provider, has been recognised as the Small Business Winner in the West Oxfordshire Business Awards 2011, beating off strong competition.

Tenant finances were in slightly better shape than in December, but high arrears remain a concern for landlords, with 11 per cent of all UK rent unpaid or late by the end of January. Unpaid rent totalled £258m across the UK in January.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property solutions provider, has received a staggering 100 per cent positive feedback about its highly anticipated Gemini Version 8 software.

Fry & Kent is a leading estate and lettings agent in Hampshire, and, with a large database of landlords, including several based overseas, Neil Maxwell, Director at Fry & Kent, was keen to find a way of reducing the time and money spent on sending out statements to landlords. Already a Gemini customer, he asked VTUK if there was a way to incorporate it into the existing software.

The big news for VTUK in 2010 was our outsourced property management facility, available through Aquarius, our estate agency package. The Aquarius software upgrade, completed in June, allows agents to take the glory – and profit – from property management, without any of the hard graft. The agent doesn’t even have to worry about auditing and money handling, as it is all handled centrally.

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The Age of Aquarius is upon us. Not the song from the musical Hair, or the astrological age, but the age which will transform estate and lettings agency - the Aquarius outsourcing offering from VTUK.

Peter Grant, VTUK Managing Director, gives an overview of the year ahead.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property solutions provider, has secured an exclusive deal to provide its letting agents and tenants with the innovative Home Move Box.

The new body will set up to lobby for standards in property industry with each member adhering to a code of conduct. VTUK are confident that this will raise industry standards via suppliers.

The Oxfordshire based property solutions specialist, VTUK has been shortlisted for 3 national Landlord & Letting awards.

REVOLUTIONARY SOFTWARE UPGRADE COULD EARN ESTATE AGENTS AROUND £75,000 PER YEAR FROM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AND LETTINGS

VTUK announced as Technology Partner to the Bloom Apprenticeship Academy

We produce software for the property industry. In a nutshell that’s what we do. We do it well, but I like to think that we do a bit more. Part of the ‘doing a bit more’ is proactively engaging with our clients, who collectively manage over 450,000 rental properties, in order to provide them with up to date information on matters that affect their business and hear their views on what they consider to be key industry issues facing the lettings sector. And all I’ve been hearing from them from the past two years is declining standards, legislation and regulation.

VTUK, the UK’s largest independent property management software supplier, is leading the way in combating climate change by embracing the Government’s Act on CO2 initiative to become a carbon neutral business.

Dodgy Energy Performance Certificates (EPC’s) are being issued that are not worth the paper they are written on.

Whilst Britain has been gripped in the clutches of the longest “cold snap”, which we believe to be a technical term for 30 years and the country has been bought to its knees, it appears that the property industry is made of hardier stuff.

It’s that time of year again and as part of the Christmas break we will still be maintaining our support services.

Partnership will lead to enhanced services for VTUK customers - VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property software provider, has been appointed an official technology partner of O2, the UK’s leading provider of mobile phone, landline and internet services in an exclusive partnership that will see O2 services integrated into VTUK’s property software offering.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property software provider has won the Bronze Award for Best Supplier to the Property Industry at the Estate Agency of the Year Awards, in association with the Sunday Times. The awards were held at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea Football Club’s home ground.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property software provider, is proving it is becoming a solutions provider to all areas of the property management industry with the growing success of Pisces, its ancillary services offering. As well as offering the best prices with a number of national suppliers, agents can now include their existing, local suppliers in Pisces.

VTUK held their inaugural roundtable dinner at the Reform Club in Pall Mall on 7 July to debate ‘Lettings Market Reform – The need for change’. The debate, was held under the Chatham House Rule and Chaired by Peter Grant, Managing Director of VTUK.

VTUK, the UK’s leading independent property software provider, today announces the launch of a new, free bi-weekly online training service for its estate agency and lettings and management customers.

A study of lettings agents has estimated that inefficient software is costing the industry as much as £300 million every year.

VTUK has appointed Blythe Weigh Communications, a London-based consultancy, to handle its media relations and advise on communications strategy. It is the first time VTUK has worked with a PR company, and reflects the growing success of the business’s property software.

VTUK are delighted to announce the addition of Jonathan Stebbings to the team. Jonathan has recently joined us from Richards Gray as a Business Development Manager.

Oxfordshire based Property Solution Provider, VTUK have hosted a visit by the Rt. Hon Mr David Cameron Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.

Following extensive research VTUK have been selected as Team’s partner for lettings & management solutions.

On behalf of their large Client base, VTUK have spent three months researching the market place, before choosing Richards Gray and LIVE as the best suppliers in the industry to partner. This was based on three factors.

VTUK are very pleased to announce the launch of their new web site in association with Ricemedia. After consultation with Ricemedia it quickly became apparent that our Clients needs had evolved faster than our web presence and that they were looking for a very different experience when browsing the site.