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Temporary housing


Pathmeads (through PCHA) pioneered the use of leased accommodation for temporary housing in 1985 and has since become one of the leaders in the field, innovating and developing ways to use property to meet demands from local authorities to house statutory homeless families.

Temporary housing now forms a core activity in the Genesis Housing Group and directly employs approximately 220 staff. Pathmeads currently has contracts to acquire units onto leasing schemes for nine London Boroughs, and we manage properties in fourteen London Boroughs.

By successfully winning contracts and tenders, negotiating with our client Boroughs, and maintaining the loyalty of our landlords, we now maintain a portfolio of over 6,000 properties making us the biggest provider of this form of temporary housing in the country.

Our detailed knowledge of the property market in the areas we work has been an important factor in ensuring we deliver the properties as required by our client Boroughs.

We have a dedicated business team which procures over 1,000 new properties each year. We employ a highly experienced team of acquisition negotiators. One of these negotiators is nominated to take the lead responsibility for each Borough area to provide a responsive one to one service to our landlords.