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.

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2,212
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161
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Showing 468 of 16,227 decisions matching "property"

Complaint: Old Complaints Handling categories
The complaint is about: the landlord’s handling of repairs to the exterior of the resident’s property; and the landlord’s complaints handling.
Case 202002647 · 1 Mar 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The Complaint is about the landlord’s response to residents’ reports about: The level of compensation provided for acknowledged repairs failures at the property. Inappropriate conduct and attending the property without notice. Complaints handling.
Case 201914039 · 26 Feb 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of damp and mould in his property.
Case 202003183 · 23 Feb 2021
Complaint: Old Home Ownership Issues (not new build) categories
The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for maintenance and cyclical works at the property.
Case 202000692 · 5 Feb 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports regarding a rodent infestation at her property and the amount of compensation it subsequently offered.
Case 201908355 · 4 Feb 2021
The complaint concerns the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request to repair the back fence and gate in his property.
Case 202006045 · 3 Feb 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident has complained that: The landlord failed to respond to their initial reports of a fly infestation The landlord took too long to respond to a leak and the resulting remedial works The landlord took too long to remove …
Case 201916109 · 31 Jan 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition categories
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for compensation in relation to repairs to the property’s guttering, patio door, boiler, wet room and damp and mould.
Case 201906498 · 21 Jan 2021
Croydon Council (202005546) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Local Authority / ALMO or TMO
The complaint is about: Section 20 work that was completed by the landlord at the resident’s property in 2016. Charges for the section 20 works which the resident opted out of. The landlord’s response to the resident’s request to produce …
Case 202005546 · 8 Jan 2021
Complaint: Local Authority / ALMO or TMO
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of contractors arriving at his property without identification and entering a room without his permission.
Case 201913984 · 6 Jan 2021
Complaint: Old Home Ownership Issues (not new build) categories
The complaint is about delay to the landlord installing new windows at the property.
Case 202000359 · 18 Dec 2020
Optivo (202002413) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of damp and mould in the property; the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns over subsidence to the building; the landlord’s handling of the corresponding complaint.
Case 202002413 · 17 Dec 2020
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
This complaint is about the landlord’s response to: The resident’s request for rehousing. The resident’s reports of damp and mould in her property, disrepair to extractor fans in her kitchen and bathroom, and broken window handles in her dining room.
Case 201911091 · 16 Dec 2020
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s application to purchase her property under the Right to Acquire (RTA) scheme.
Case 201909821 · 15 Dec 2020
Complaint: Old Home Ownership Issues (not new build) categories
This complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the Energy Supply Agreement it sent to their solicitor during the purchase of their property.
Case 202000112 · 14 Dec 2020
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint refers to: The length of time taken for the Landlord to complete repairs to the Resident’s property. The Landlord’s complaint handling of this matter.
Case 202003176 · 8 Dec 2020
Complaint: Applicant
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the applicant’s application for a property.
Case 201913687 · 7 Dec 2020
Peabody Trust (201912025) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to the resident’s reports that other residents were allowing strangers to access the building; response to the resident’s reports that other residents had left their personal property in a communal area causing a …
Case 201912025 · 4 Dec 2020