Housing Ombudsman Decisions
Formal casework decisions from the Housing Ombudsman Service on complaints against social landlords in England. Decisions include maladministration findings, reasonable redress, and cases outside jurisdiction.
16,227
Total Decisions
11,758
Maladministration Found
2,212
No Maladministration
161
Severe Cases
Decisions by Year
Top Landlords by Volume
Clarion Housing Association Limited
817
Peabody Trust
522
London & Quadrant Housing Trust
517
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q)
488
Sanctuary Housing Association
360
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTV)
313
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Common Topics (last 2 years)
Top Landlords
Clarion Housing Association Limited (817)
Peabody Trust (522)
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (517)
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) (488)
Sanctuary Housing Association (360)
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTV) (313)
Hyde Housing Association Limited (309)
The Guinness Partnership Limited (299)
Southern Housing (273)
Southwark Council (266)
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (239)
Notting Hill Genesis (229)
Showing 692 of 16,227 decisions matching "property"
Thurrock Council (202202354)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of ongoing damp and mould in their property.
Incommunities Limited (202209486)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports regarding a rat infestation in her property and the associated repairs. The associated complaint and communications.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202115661)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about: Flooring in the property. A tree in the garden of the property. The shower at the property.
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (202126833)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s decision to remove trees from a garden area outside the resident’s property.
The Extracare Charitable Trust (202205621)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord's: Response to the resident’s concerns about the emergency lighting in her property. Response to the resident’s request for compensation.
Tower Hamlets Homes (202107083)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord's management of gas safety issues arising from the boiler at the property.
Tamworth Borough Council (202207084)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for its debris removal recharge to her after she left her former property to be withdrawn.
Ipswich Borough Council (202118420)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The resident complains about the condition of the property upon assignment by mutual exchange. This resident has also complaint about the landlord’s subsequent handling of repairs.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202015276)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord's handling of external redecoration works to the property. The landlord’s complaint handling has also been considered.
Jigsaw Homes Tameside (202108371)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to asbestos being identified at the resident’s property.
One Manchester Limited (202205834)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled the resident’s reports of damp and mould at the property.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202108787)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for succession to the tenancy at the property.
Longhurst Group Limited (202208049)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled the replacement of a communal fence outside the resident’s property.
Sedgemoor District Council (202206650)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of bed bugs at the property.
Nottingham City Homes Registered Provider Limited (202123935)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s concerns about the energy efficiency of the property and her request for insulation.
Brentwood Borough Council (202013898)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for: Adaptations to the property. Removal of garden debris.
Broadland Housing Association Limited (202200995)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of issues with her boiler and a mouse infestation; concerns about its staff member’s conduct, in particular the advice provided on the condition of her property.
London Borough of Hackney (202114496)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request to succeed the tenancy of the property.
Peabody Trust (202114643)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour and noise nuisance from a neighbour. Repair to a leak in the resident’s property. This service has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202124118)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of pests in the property.
Haringey London Borough Council (202116739)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about: The major works at her property. Her decant from the property whilst works progressed.
LiveWest Homes Limited (202106206)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of repairs needed at the property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for a transfer to a suitable property. The landlord’s handling of the associated complaint.
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202113202)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s property move.
Victory Housing Trust (202205475)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the allocation process for the property, particularly staff conduct, room dimensions, and its advice on refusal of an offer of a property.
Incommunities Limited (202104446)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The landlord’s response to the resident’s: Reports of the condition of the property on letting. Reports of repairs to the resident’s property, including missed appointments. Request for communication through her advocate. Reports about staff conduct. Reports of discrimination. Reports of …
Newham Council (202114253)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request to have a pressure pump/electric shower installed at the property.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202121725)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the quality of the carpet in the property.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (202010924)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of damp and mould in the property including the resident’s reports of damage to personal items. The resident has also complained about: the handling of her request for a transfer on medical grounds. …
Torus62 Limited (202120233)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports that the pipework in her bathroom had been installed incorrectly. The resident’s concern that the property was mis-sold Various repair issues including redecoration of communal areas, gas safety and …
Home Group Limited (202203575)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns the landlord’s decision to decline to undertake a sound proofing test in the resident’s property.
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (202012626)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The resident complains about the landlord’s handling of: reports of a pest infestation; reports of damp and mould; reports of ASB, and; The condition/replacement of windows and doors in the property. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Ashfield District Council (202200028)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns regarding the boundary hedge at the property.
Notting Hill Genesis (202113786)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s request to be transferred to another property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for adaptations. The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for mobility scooter storage. The landlord’s complaint …
Sovereign Network Homes (202015554)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord’s: communication with him using hard copy correspondence; approach to property management of the estate; and employees’ interactions with him.
Yorkshire Housing Limited (202200611)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of anti-social behaviour. The resident’s reports of repairs in the property. The associated complaint.
Citizen Housing (202112942)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about: The landlord’s finding that the back boiler and gas fire were unsafe following the annual gas safety check. The landlord’s request to replace the boiler and heating system in the property.
Castles & Coasts Housing Association Limited (202116974)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to a request to install a driveway to the front of the resident’s property; response to a request for a fence in the resident’s back garden; complaint handling.
Plus Dane Housing Limited (202126563)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of: A pest infestation in her property. Boiler repairs.
Midland Heart Limited (202015312)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of boiler repairs in the resident’s property since May 2020 and his request for compensation.
Guinness Housing Association Limited (202128330)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled reports of damp and mould in the property and its decision not to offer compensation for damage caused to the resident’s personal items .
East Riding of Yorkshire Council (202120030)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of a pest infestation (sewer flies) in his property.
Kingston upon Thames Council (202116740)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This compliant is about: The landlord’s tailored policy for visits to the property; The landlord’s agent not wearing a face mask during a repair; The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of a marked window and curtains at the property; …
Trent & Dove Housing Limited (202123724)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns: The landlord visiting the resident without making a prior appointment. Whether a landlord staff member wore the appropriate PPE when entering the property.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202109659)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s compensation request in respect to structural works, for which she was decanted from her property for seven weeks.
Vivid Housing Limited (202104383)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint concerns how the landlord allocated the parking bays for the resident’s property.
Leeds City Council (202100672)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
This complaint is about: The resident’s request to be rehoused; The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the condition of the property.
The Cambridge Housing Society Limited (202125794)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about landlord's response to the resident’s request: to run a business from her property; for the landlord to waive its fees for the sale of the property.
Town and Country Housing (202108830)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about how the landlord responded to the resident’s concerns about the roofing works to her building, including: The removal of asbestos roof tiles and damage to potentially asbestos containing materials in her ceiling. Her request that the …
Derby Homes Limited (202125471)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident complains about the level of redress offered by the landlord in relation to a fly infestation in his property.
East Midlands Housing Group Limited (202116488)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord's handling of repairs to the external rendering of the resident’s property.