Stock condition surveys are essential for housing teams to garner a point in time analysis of the condition of their stock, but too often the process is manual, time consuming, and underused. +AddJust changes that. Our Stock Condition Survey module turns surveys into living data assets, driving smarter digital maintenance planning and stronger housing outcomes. Below, we show the real difference between traditional stock condition surveys (paper-based reports) and a digital, data-driven approach using a system like +AddJust. Valuable survey data gets lost in spreadsheets and is left unused.
We want to make it clear how +AddJust helps turn every survey into actionable insights, powering better planning, smarter investment, and stronger housing outcomes.
Q1. How do organisations with hundreds and sometimes thousands of properties currently complete stock condition surveys?
A: Many property management teams still rely on spreadsheet templates or paper-based checklists. This works for a small set of properties, but quickly becomes unmanageable at scale.
Have you considered deploying a digital stock condition survey app that streamlines data capture, syncs instantly from the field, and builds a live record for every property?
Q2. Once survey data is collected, how is it used?
A: Often, survey data is archived or only partially analysed, limiting its value. We have found that some organisations do have ‘a system’ for merging and analysing data from different surveys but its management is time consuming, leads to duplication of work in most cases and access to the data can be limited to only a handful of users.
What if every survey, once signed off by the surveyor, fed directly into a central cloud based system that automatically generated a 5, 10, 20, and 30-year cost book for planned and cyclical maintenance?
Q3. How do property organisations plan for long-term maintenance budgets?
A: Some authorities rely on historic spend patterns rather than asset-specific forecasts. Others favour a more strategic approach and can combine asset information, lifecycle costing, risk assessment, compliance with standards and governance demands and strategic asset management review. This more strategic approach is only effective when the data collected through a stock condition survey is specific and sufficiently detailed.
Wouldn’t it be more powerful to use data-driven cost projections, based on actual survey findings and an in-house cost tool for each component, to plan budgets years in advance?
Q4. How easily can organisations report on property conditions at portfolio levels?
A: Manual surveys and spreadsheets rarely scale to provide real-time, comparable data across an organisation's property portfolio. Combining the results of individual surveys across a large number of properties is cumbersome, time consuming and prone to error.
+AddJust can deliver live dashboards that aggregates condition data across your stock, supports audits, and informs aggregated reporting to help alleviate the reporting burden in your organisation?
Q5. How do you ensure your surveys remain useful over time?
A: Traditional surveys are often one-off exercises with limited reuse. It’s important that any further interaction with a property builds on the data collected in the condition survey and that a survey isn’t treated as legacy data relating to a property, rather the beginning or foundational stone of a data collection journey for each property.
What if digital surveys were treated as part of a data lifecycle journey, with updates continuously feeding into and out of maintenance programmes and strategic housing policy?
The +AddJust Stock Condition Survey module turns surveys into living data assets, empowering better decisions, smarter investments, and improved housing outcomes.
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