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 5,288 of 16,227 decisions matching "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.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (202005287)
Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of various repairs in the property. reports about a boundary dispute with a neighbour.
Nottingham City Homes Registered Provider Limited (202009510)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of the resident’s concerns about the condition of the property including her understanding that it was in a noise-controlled area. Handling of the resident’s reports of various repair issues including those relating to …
Peabody Trust (202112807)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled: Noise nuisance from a scrapyard near the property. The sale of the property to the resident. The associated formal complaint into these matters.
Phoenix Community Housing Association (Bellingham and Downham) Limited (202112913)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s report of recurrent leaks from the property above.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council (202113456)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to: The resident’s reports of water ingress. The resident’s reports concerning the lift shaft, broken Perspex, trees outside the property and damp and mould. The associated complaint.
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202200377)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s report of a pest infestation in her property.
Trafford Housing Trust Limited (202100386)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about: The length of time the resident had to wait to move into the property. The landlord’s response to the resident’s requests for reasonable adjustments whilst waiting for Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funded adaptations to be carried …
Vivid Housing Limited (202104383)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint concerns how the landlord allocated the parking bays for the resident’s property.
Birmingham City Council (202011026)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s leak reports and related compensation claim for damage caused to the property. The related complaint.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202114070)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlords handling of the residents reports of a moth infestation in the property.
Soho Housing Association Limited (202111856)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of water ingress, damp, and other repairs to the property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s temporary decant and his request for a permanent move. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Lambeth Council (202108805)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint was about: The landlord’s handling of repairs to the resident’s property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s concerns regarding the removal of the neighbour’s garden wall. The landlord’s complaint handling.
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.
Thames Valley Housing Association Limited (201906959)
Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The resident’s complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reported defects in her property including the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of damage caused to her property and personal belongings by contractors. The landlord’s response to the …
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.
Stafford & Rural Homes (202110240)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the: resident’s reports of the outstanding repairs required to the property resident’s request to be transferred. the related complaint.
LiveWest Homes Limited (202202129)
Outside Jurisdiction
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint concerns information about the ‘right to buy’ provided by the landlord when the property was let to the resident and their accepting the tenancy understanding that they had the ‘right to buy’ the property.
London Borough of Croydon (202109511)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition categories
The complaint is about the standard and quality of work carried out at the property, including to the bathroom and kitchen.
The Riverside Group Limited (202110871)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s attempts to access the resident’s property to carry out an inspection. The landlord’s handling of the complaint.
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 …
Hammersmith and Fulham Council (202109799)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of subsidence at the property. Associated repair issues believed to be caused by the subsidence.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council (202115349)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports about a leak into the property. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Haringey Council (202107523)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damp and mould at the property, and its handling of associated repairs.
Shepherds Bush Housing Association Limited (202112342)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the resident’s anti-social behaviour (ASB) reports; adaptations to the resident’s property; the related complaint.
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (202101814)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of: repairs required to the electrics in the property including the associated removal of asbestos material. clearance of rubbish from the garden the related complaint.
Richmondshire District Council (202104410)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about: Whether the resident was given the opportunity to postpone the works to her bathroom in January 2021. A discrepancy between the Risk Assessment and Method Statement for those works. Rubbish being left in the resident’s property …
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.
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (202005143)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of a leak into his property. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Network Homes Limited (202125240)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s concerns about the condition, safety and security of her garden when she moved into her property.
Wolverhampton City Council (202113087)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of rubble in her rear garden; concerns about the landlord’s operatives attending unannounced; reports of a rodent infestation; request to for a property transfer. The complaint is also about …
Hammersmith and Fulham Council (202102546)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to multiple repairs in the resident’s property (including the windows, the smoke detector, the extractor, the roof leak, and mould). The landlord’s complaint handling.
Midland Heart Limited (202108007)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of disrepair issues, including (but not limited to): a rodent infestation; a blocked drain; lighting in kitchen and bathroom; request for a property transfer.
Notting Hill Genesis (202105526)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s: reports of a pest infestation and the associated repairs reports of dampness in the property the related complaint
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202113535)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of ivy growing onto her property from a neighbouring property.
Vivid Housing Limited (202120265)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of damp and mould within the property. Repairs needed to the communal lifts within the building and the support offered to the resident. The resident’s request for a management …
Westminster City Council (202120284)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled repairs to the ceilings in the property.
Catalyst Housing Limited (202114965)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of the resident’s concerns regarding the temperature in one of the bedrooms in the property. Complaint handling.
Habinteg Housing Association Limited (202012489)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s request for the windows in the property to be renewed. The associated complaint.
Peabody Trust (202016218)
Maladministration
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of a gas safety check at the resident’s property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s complaint.
Southwark Council (202118163)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports of damp and mould in her property and in the basement below it. Complaint handling.
The Riverside Group Limited (202113445)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for the replacement of a chain-link fence in the property.
Broadland Housing Association Limited (202101362)
Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about: the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of ASB from January 2020 onwards. the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of ASB between December 2017 and December 2019. a lack of clarity relating to the property’s …
Town and Country Housing (202121309)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB). The resident’s reports of being exposed to Covid-19 by a contractor . Repairs required in the resident’s former property. The associated complaint.
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (202111942)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about its handling of ventilation repairs in her property. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Leeds City Council (202106197)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of repairs at the property. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (202103674)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s: handling of a rat infestation; response to the resident’s request for garden works; handling of various reported repairs to the property’s plumbing and heating systems; handling of the resident’s concerns around anti-social behaviour (ASB); …
Shepherds Bush Housing Association Limited (202106094)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports about the condition of the windows at the property. Complaints handling.
Charnwood Borough Council (202111440)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of repairs following a fire at the property below the resident. Specifically, the complaint relates to: The landlord’s handling of works to the resident’s floorboards. The landlord’s handling of repairs to the ceiling …