Scotland's Housing Network

Name

Scotland's Housing Network

Legal name

Scotland's Housing Network

Website

https://scotlandshousingnetwork.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Housing Benchmarking and Data Insights

NAICS

Community Housing Services (62422), Other Community Housing Services (624229)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Housing & Neighborhood Services (Local Housing Programs) (BPAIACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

Keywords

• Social housing benchmarking
• Housing performance data insights
• Charter preparation services
• Value for money analysis
• Housing communities of practice

Headquarters

HQ city

Edinburgh

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Subscriptions: SHN operates as a membership organisation for local authority and housing association landlords. Annual membership subscriptions provide access to all services including benchmarking data, communities of practice, publications, events, and the SHN portal. The VFM Service is described as a 'free service available to Scotland's Housing Network (SHN) members', indicating membership is the primary revenue mechanism.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Scotland's Housing Network is a membership organisation that delivers benchmarking, data insights, and practice support services to Scottish local authority and registered social landlord housing providers. Its core offering bundles twelve service areas, including Validation and Consultancy, Cost and Development Value for Money, Data and Performance Insights, Governance Self-Assessment, Charter Preparation, Welfare Reform Services, and Performance Analysis Visits, alongside access to seventeen specialist Communities of Practice and member-exclusive Business Intelligence tools such as the ARC Table and Chart Generators and the 2025/26 Data Dashboards.

Product overview

Scotland's Housing Network is a membership organization providing a unified platform of benchmarking, data insights, and professional development services to Scottish local authorities and registered social landlords. The core offering combines 12 service areas (including Validation and Consultancy, Cost Value for Money, Data and Performance Insights, Development Value for Money, Governance Self-Assessment, Charter Preparation, and Welfare Reform Services) with 17 specialized Communities of Practice for peer learning. Members also receive access to exclusive Business Intelligence tools including ARC Table and Chart Generators, quarterly and annual benchmarking reports, and an extensive publications library. The Data Dashboards 2025/26 represents the latest data visualization product launch, providing Charter and Annual Network Indicators performance data covering approximately 90% of Scotland's social housing sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Validation and Consultancy Validation and consultancy services delivered to Scottish local authority and RSL housing members, supporting operational and strategic decision-making across housing providers.
• Cost Value for Money Cost and Value for Money analysis services benchmarking landlord costs and efficiency against sector peers, available to SHN members.
• Performance Analysis Visits On-site performance analysis and benchmarking visits delivered to member landlords, covering operational housing practice and Charter outcomes.
• Data and Performance Insights Comprehensive data and performance benchmarking insights for the Scottish social housing sector, powered by SHN's sector-wide datasets.
• Development Value for Money Development Value for Money analysis and reporting for members, including comparative reporting on new affordable housing tenant satisfaction such as the DVFM Report covering 413 tenants across 723 new homes.
• Governance Self-Assessment Self-assessment tools and guidance supporting governance compliance and best practice for RSL and local authority landlord members.
• Charter Preparation Support services helping members prepare Scottish Social Housing Charter submissions, including guidance, templates, and dedicated preparation sessions.
• Housing Options Training Toolkit Training resources and toolkit supporting housing options delivery by member landlords and their front-line housing staff.
• Practice Self-Assessment Self-assessment framework supporting evaluation of housing practice against sector benchmarks and regulatory expectations.
• Private Sector Housing Services and resources supporting private rented sector housing management for member local authorities.
• Resources and Publications Extensive library of publications, templates, guidance documents, and benchmarking data provided to SHN members.
• Welfare Reform Services Advisory services addressing welfare reform impacts on social housing, supporting members' service adaptation.
• Charter Data Insights Report Annual public publication summarising key highlights from the Scottish Social Housing Charter performance dataset, covering approximately 90% of the sector by stock.
• Business Intelligence Tools Member-exclusive Business Intelligence tools, including the ARC Table and Chart Generators, that integrate Charter indicators and additional metrics to support granular performance analysis and peer benchmarking.
• Quarterly Benchmarking Reports Quarterly performance benchmarking publications covering both Local Authorities and RSLs, including Q1-Q4 editions for 2024-25 and 2025-26.
• Communities of Practice Member-led professional networks across 17 specialised areas (Private Sector Housing, Development, Homelessness, Housing Management, Asset Management, Mid Market Rent, Specialist Housing and Support, Performance Improvement, and others) facilitating peer knowledge and policy exchange among Scottish housing professionals.
• Data Dashboards 2025/26 Up-to-date Charter and Annual Network Indicators performance dashboards for 2025/26 delivering sector-wide benchmarking visualisations to SHN members, launched as the latest data visualisation product.

Quantifiable outcome

• SHN released the 2025/26 Charter performance dataset within 72 hours of the submission deadline, enabling early access to sector-wide performance insights.
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA): Membership body representing Scotland's housing associations and co-operatives. Overlaps significantly with SHN's RSL member base and shares the role of sector convenor and policy advocate.
• HQN (Housing Quality Network): UK-wide membership network for housing professionals providing training, consultancy, and peer learning. Comparable member-led service offering and audience in social housing.
• Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) Scotland: Scottish organization supporting tenant participation and engagement in social housing. Directly comparable focus area within SHN's Community and Resident Engagement community of practice.
• HouseMark: UK-wide benchmarking, data analytics and insight provider for the social housing sector. Closest comparable to SHN, though operating at a broader UK scale rather than Scotland-only.

Broad incumbents

• National Housing Federation (NHF): England-wide membership body for housing associations, providing benchmarking, policy, and sector representation. Comparable membership-organization model but at national scale for England.
• Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH): UK-wide professional body for housing professionals, offering training, qualifications, and policy advocacy. Larger and broader than SHN, with overlapping member audiences in Scotland.

Regional players

• Northern Ireland Housing Council: Representative body for Northern Ireland housing associations. Regional peer sharing the membership organization model for housing associations in a different devolved jurisdiction.
• Welsh Government Social Housing Data Team: Provides comparable social housing benchmarking and data publication for Wales. Regional counterpart to SHN's Scottish sector benchmarking function.
• G15 (London Housing Associations): Collective of London's largest housing associations for benchmarking and joint advocacy. Similar cross-landlord benchmarking model but focused on London's largest RSLs.

Others

• ARC (Annual Report on Charter) / Regulator-hosted data: Scottish Housing Regulator platform that hosts the underlying ARC data SHN benchmarks against. Not a competitor but the foundational regulator whose data infrastructure SHN's products extend.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/@scotlandshousingnetwork3738
• Facebookfacebook.com/scotlandshousingnetwork
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scotland's-housing-network

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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