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From possession to facility: where trust in a developer is won or lost

The months around possession — snags, registration, defect claims, the first resident tickets — shape how buyers talk about a developer for years. Treating units, snags and tickets as one record, and triaging them with agents, shortens possession and keeps facility teams ahead of complaints.

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Key takeaways

  • Possession is a data handover as much as a physical one.
  • Snags and tickets classified by GenAI reach the right contractor or team faster.
  • Recurring-issue and SLA analytics show where the building, not the resident, is the problem.
  • Predictive maintenance for lifts, DG sets and pumps protects the resident experience after handover.

Buyers wait years for a home and judge the developer in weeks. Snag lists, registration paperwork, defect-liability claims and the first helpdesk tickets arrive at once, usually handled by different teams with different systems.

One unit record

When the unit record carries its booking, payments, snags, possession status and later its tickets and assets, every team works from the same facts. An agent can classify each snag with photos and location and route it to the responsible contractor, then track rectification.

  • Snags classified and routed with photos and location
  • Possession readiness tracked per unit and tower
  • Resident tickets triaged with SLA prediction
  • Recurring issues surfaced with owners

After handover

Ticket, SLA and recurring-issue analytics — which we have built for IT and service operations — apply directly to facility management. Combined with building-asset signals, they let facility teams fix causes rather than symptoms.

For executives

What this means for your bank

  1. Carry one unit record from booking to facility service.
  2. Measure days from completion to possession and snags per unit.
  3. Use recurring-issue analysis to find building faults.
  4. Keep complaint closure with people.
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How SCIKIQ can help

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