The Switchee and Cotality integration brings real-time data from inside the home together with wider property intelligence. But what does that look like in practice, and what could it enable for housing providers?
21 Sep 2026: Housing providers aren't short of data.
From asset information and energy performance to stock condition and planned investment, there is already a wealth of information available to help teams understand their homes.
The challenge is bringing that information together in a way that makes it easy to access, understand, and act on.
No single dataset tells the whole story. Modelled data can tell you how a home should perform. Real-time data from inside the home can help you understand how it is actually performing.
Bringing the two together is where it gets powerful.
Cotality's Portfolio platform brings together property intelligence and energy efficiency modelling to help housing providers understand their stock and inform asset management and investment decisions.
Switchee adds another layer: real-time insight into what's happening inside the home.
By bringing Switchee data into Cotality, teams can compare modelled performance with real-world conditions, adding greater context to help investigate potential issues, prioritise activity and make more informed decisions about their homes.
And importantly, teams don't have to navigate another system to find that insight.
Through the Cotality integration, Switchee data becomes part of the platforms and processes housing providers already use. Instead of moving between disconnected systems and piecing together different datasets, teams can access real-time evidence from inside the home as part of their existing workflow.
It's about getting the right insight in front of the right people, at the point they can use it.
The value isn't simply having more information available. It's what that information enables teams to do.
At portfolio level, connected data can help identify where closer attention may be needed. At property level, teams can dig deeper into real-world conditions to understand what's happening inside an individual home and where further investigation or intervention may be required.
And the value doesn't stop once action is taken.
Following an intervention or improvement, real-world data can help teams understand what happened next: whether conditions changed, whether the home is performing differently and whether the action taken delivered the intended outcome.
It creates the potential to move from identifying an issue to informing action, to understanding its impact.
Following a recent demonstration of Switchee and Cotality, Together Housing shared their initial feedback on the experience.
The team highlighted Switchee's intuitive user journeys, interactive mapping and detailed address-level drill-down, alongside the use of RAG exception logic to make potential operational issues easier to identify.
Importantly, the connected approach also aligned with Together Housing's wider ambitions around data centralisation.
“The ‘one-stop-shop’ unified architecture aligns perfectly with our data centralisation goals. Switchee's Insights offer strong predictive and analytical value.”
Paul C Grech, Data Intelligence & Support Manager (Net Zero), Together Housing
The evaluation also highlighted the responsiveness and accessibility of the Switchee Portal, including its alignment with WCAG standards.
No single data source can provide all the answers about a home. But bringing different layers of property intelligence together can build a richer, more current understanding of how homes are performing.
The result isn't simply more data. It's data that's better connected, easier to use and available where teams need it.
Switchee data, in the flow of your work, helps you understand your homes, prioritise action, and measure what happens next.
