Estate Living Magazine Precinct Living - Issue 33 | Page 32

WHY ESTATES SHOULD JOIN The Association of Residential Communties (ARC) & Estate Living partnership 1. The Association of Residential Communities (ARC) has been in existence for over 10 years, with 11 founder members, 10 chapters around the country and over 300 member estates, home to over 200,000 residents and representing 58% of the market in respect of number of homes. 2. ARC has researched, developed and sourced over 400 best practice resources covering all disciplines of residential community management and leadership. 3. ARC conducts an annual industry-wide survey in which all possible residential community statistics are available for estate benchmarking purposes. 4. ARC & Estate Living have developed strategic partnerships with residential community experts across various areas of residential community management, and these are available to ARC members. 5. The ARC website attracts over 50,000 hits per month, with 2,000 unique visitors, and via our portal has a regular newsletter, calendar of events, resources including a Q&A section updated with all queries received, plus a two-way communication portal that contains up-to-the-minute industry alerts on matters directly affecting residential communities. 6. The Estate Living web portal and content receives in excess of 450 000 impressions monthly and provides a place for estate marketing and reputation management. Visit hoasupport.co.za | estate-living.co.za to see our current members, our chapters and shared insight into the community .