Housing Recovery as a Service

Empty homes are a housing crisis you can solve this quarter.

We're the single accountable partner that returns voids to communities in 12 to18 days, not 35 to 60. Surveyed in 48 hours. All trades sequenced under one programme. Live recovery reporting from day one.

48hr
To survey & price
12–18
Day turnaround
1
Accountable partner
A young family receiving the keys to their newly recovered council home

"The fastest way to increase housing supply is to bring existing homes back into use faster."

— Our founding belief

127,890

Households in TA

England, Q1 2025

Source: MHCLG statutory homelessness statistics

164,040

Children in TA

England, Q1 2025

Source: MHCLG statutory homelessness statistics

£2.29bn

Annual TA spend

English councils, 2023/24

Source: LGA analysis of council revenue outturn

1.33m

On waiting lists

England, 2023/24

Source: MHCLG local authority housing statistics

Figures cited from the most recent published UK government and Local Government Association datasets. Rounded for display.

The Problem

The crisis isn't supply. It's utilisation.

At any moment, roughly 80,000 social homes in England sit empty. Every day of void is rent lost, a family in temporary accommodation, a child without a stable bedroom.

The sector treats voids as maintenance. We treat them as recovery — a measurable operational performance problem with an outcome we can guarantee.

Read the full problem brief
Aerial view of a UK social housing neighbourhood at golden hour
~80,000 social homes stand empty in England at any moment. Source: Action on Empty Homes / Regulator of Social Housing.

Void cost

~£1bn

Estimated annual rent lost to social-housing voids in England.Source: sector estimate, Action on Empty Homes.

Children playing on a UK residential street

TA spend, 5-yr rise

+62%

Source: LGA analysis, 2019–2024.

Our Solution

The Housing Recovery Programme™

One accountable partner. One programme. One outcome — an occupied home.

01WITHIN 48 HRS

Rapid Survey

Property assessed end-to-end. Fixed-price recovery plan. Scope authorised in a single visit.

02WITHIN 48 HRS

Coordinated Delivery

All trades — joinery, plumbing, gas, electrical, decoration, flooring, compliance — sequenced as one programme, not siloed.

03WITHIN 48 HRS

Recovery Reporting

A dashboard your asset team runs the business from: void days saved, rent recovered, TA cost avoided, first-time pass rate.

Before / After

Two operating models. One creates housing supply.

Without Occupy

  • 35–60 day average void
  • 3–6 contractors, no single owner
  • No real-time performance data
  • Reactive, ad-hoc instruction
  • Lost rent, unmet housing demand

With Occupy

  • 12–18 day average void
  • One accountable recovery partner
  • Live recovery reporting dashboard
  • Proactive, programmatic delivery
  • Recovered income, families housed faster

The numbers, your portfolio

Every void day saved is recovered value.

Recovery ROI calculator

See the value hiding in your voids.

Estimate the rent recovered, temporary accommodation avoided, and families housed when you compress void days.

Annual recovery

£194,229

recovered each year by compressing void duration from 45 to 12 days.

Rent recovered

£35,829

TA cost avoided

£158,400

Days saved / home

33

Extra families housed

88

Indicative model based on UK social housing benchmarks. We'll model your real portfolio in a 30-minute discovery call.

What we deliver

Services built around an outcome you can measure.

All services

Rapid Void Recovery

End-to-end void turnaround under one programme. Fixed price per property.

Empty Homes Programme

Long-term void recovery at portfolio scale, with cohort reporting per asset manager.

Allocations Acceleration

Tenant-ready handover that drops lettings cycle time. Inspection-proof handback packs.

TA Cost Reduction

Targeted programmes that move households out of temporary accommodation, fast.

A freshly refurbished UK council flat ready for a new tenant

Our commitment

One partner, one programme, one accountable outcome.

Problem → Solution

Voids sit empty for weeks because no-one owns the outcome.

Fragmented trades, survey to instruction lag, and sign off bureaucracy keep social homes empty for 35 to 60 days. Occupy collapses that to 12 to 18 by running voids as a single, accountable recovery programme — measured in rent recovered, TA cost avoided, and families housed.

See how the programme works

Start with one street, one estate, one cohort

Pilot 5 properties. Measure us. Then scale.

30 minute discovery call. We model your void portfolio and propose a fixed-price pilot with measurable recovery outcomes. No commitment beyond the pilot scope.