{"id":20076,"date":"2018-05-03T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/?p=20076"},"modified":"2020-12-25T00:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T08:59:59","slug":"better-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/better-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better Homes LLC in the United Arab Emirates takes pride in seeing things just a little sooner than almost everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Mahoney formed the company in 1986 after noticing the lack of professional real estate companies in Dubai, the country\u2019s largest city.\u00a0 Since then, she and her team have dedicated themselves to understanding their markets inside out, eventually growing Better Homes into the UAE\u2019s leading real estate company.\u00a0 Better Homes\u2019 services include residential sales and leasing, commercial sales and leasing, property management, and holiday homes.\u00a0 The company has offices in Oman, Jordan and Qatar in addition to branch offices across the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Launched as a rental agency, Better Homes opened a sales division in 2002 that has served tens of thousands of buyers and sellers.\u00a0 Another division created in 2015 organizes and promotes off-plan projects\u2014properties without structures\u2014in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHgmJXPgF28\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Better Homes expanded from one woman working from a desk in a dining room to almost 500 employees staffing offices across the UAE.\u00a0 It preceded the Burj Khafila, the Burj Al Arab, the Marina, and other landmarks of Dubai\u2019s stunning real estate development.\u00a0 This expansion arose from a business model that emphasized reliability, convenience, and visibility supported by a website that welcomes 24,000 page visits per day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20078\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/people\/better-homes\/20076.html\/attachment\/ryan-mahoney\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/05\/ryan-mahoney-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Mahoney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, we look for ways to bring new and better services to our clients and maintain our market position,\u201d says Ryan Mahoney, CEO at Better Homes.\u00a0 \u201cThe key for us has always been finding places for people to live.\u00a0 Our business is really quite simple: people and their homes.\u00a0 We do much more than that, of course, but people and their homes will always be at the heart of what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using the latest and most advanced property management technology is one way Better Homes executes its business with the desired level of personal service.\u00a0 Client service and internal efficiency were the principal factors that led Better Homes to adopt Yardi Voyager as its property management platform in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our company growing across multiple verticals in the UAE, we needed a way to get an overview of the portfolio at one glance,\u201d says Zubin Firozi, Director of Operations at Better Homes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20077\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/people\/better-homes\/20076.html\/attachment\/zubin\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20077\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/05\/Zubin-296x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zubin Firozi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBy housing financial and operational data in one place, Voyager gives us a full-business platform that covers all aspects of lease administration for every market we serve.\u00a0 Voyager delivers simple and understandable reports, electronic receipts and service that\u2019s customized to each client\u2019s unique requirements.\u00a0 Our staff spends less time on data entry and administrative tasks and more time managing our properties effectively\u2014and finding homes for people.\u00a0 From an internal standpoint, Voyager makes data easily accessible to employees and saves money by reducing our reliance on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firozi applies more than 12 years of experience, five of them with Better Homes, to helping clients buy, rent or sell property.\u00a0 In his earlier role as head of property management, he oversaw an 80-member team that managed residential and commercial properties.\u00a0 Previous positions in business development and leasing management provided additional skills that help him back up founder Mahoney\u2019s assertion that Better Homes is \u201cthe Middle East\u2019s most trustworthy and dependable property agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal estate is all about the human connection.\u00a0 We constantly look for ways to offer new and better services to our clients.\u00a0 As a key collaborator and one of the world\u2019s Top 100 private cloud companies as ranked by Forbes, Yardi helps us do that,\u201d Firozi says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhomes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about Better Homes<\/a>. 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