Browne Jacobson's online property service finds three new clients
Jun 10 2009 by Tom Scotney, Birmingham Post
An online property management system launched by Midland law firm Browne Jacobson has been hailed as a success by the company after it signed up three clients within weeks of being launched officially.
Browne Jacobson, which has its Birmingham office in Victoria Square House, spent more than 18 months developing the ‘Tracker’ system.
And the firm has recently seen it taken up by the fire service and NHS trusts in the law firm’s home county.
Nottingham Fire and Rescue Service, Nottingham City Primary Care Trust and Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust will all be using Browne Jacobson’s service to manage their property estates.
The system, which was designed to cater for freehold and leasehold properties, gives property managers 24-hour access to key information for their property assets through a secure login from their desktop.
As well as being a comprehensive archiving system for title deeds and important property documents a team of experienced property lawyers from Browne Jacobson will also extract key information from client’s property deeds giving managers immediate access to this important data.
Users also receive automatic electronic reminders of significant dates including lease expiry and rent reviews. Mark Aldrich, a partner at Browne Jacobson, said: “Property managers want information about their properties that is easy to access, cost effective and timely.
“Tracker removes many of the risks associated with managing a portfolio, large or small, by delivering all the crucial property information quickly and effectively.
“It gives users all the information they need at their fingertips, helping them to accurately budget ahead and best manage many of the risks associated with managing property assets. They can plan for forthcoming lease expiries, options to break their lease and rent reviews which if missed can leave landlords and tenants legally and financially exposed.
“Tracker is a highly intuitive system and requires no training and no additional software.”
Terry Breheny, the procurement and estates manager at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, added: “Tracker allows anybody with a responsibility for property to manage their portfolio quickly and efficiently – whether it’s one building or hundreds.”
