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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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"
Hammersmith and Fulham Council (202101528)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: application for a property transfer; request for temporary accommodation due to ongoing antisocial behaviour (ASB); request for a management transfer. The Ombudsman has also investigated the landlord’s complaints handling as …
Sanctuary Housing Association (202112456)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The condition of the property at the start of the tenancy and the landlord’s handling of the required repairs. The landlord’s handling of the associated complaint.
Christian Action (Enfield) Housing Association Limited (202106329)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of it being excessively cold in the property. The resident’s complaint.
Southwark Council (202014304)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord’s handling of issues of water ingress to the property. The landlord’s complaint handling has also been considered.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202106696)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the resident’s request for her internal doors to be adapted; the resident’s report of an unsafe driveway; the resident’s reports of internal repairs needed to the property; the related complaint.
ForHousing Limited (202110311)
Mediation
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for the concrete path at the property to be renewed with flagging.
Freebridge Community Housing Limited (202109575)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damp and mould in his property.
Hyde Housing Association Limited (202104441)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord responded to the resident’s reports of leaks into the property and how it handled repairs to resolve the issue.
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202112838)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord's handling of the resident's reports about the condition of her boiler when she moved into her property after a mutual exchange. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Catalyst Housing Limited (202115702)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of repairs to the exterior of the property including to the windows, paintwork, front door and bin storage.
Dover District Council (202119825)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for adaptations at his property.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (202113474)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns the condition of the property when the resident moved in, following a mutual exchange.
Southwark Council (202119518)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request to be transferred. The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of anti-social behaviour in the property. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Tower Hamlets Homes (202109442)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about how the landlord handled: Repairs to the valve in the living room radiator. Repositioning the isolation valve for the resident’s heating system. The resident’s concerns relating to cracks in the property’s ceilings. The resident’s concerns relating …
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (202115415)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: Reports of repairs to the communal parts of the block. Reports of repairs to the property. Reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB). Request for an allocated parking space.
One Housing Group Limited (202001357)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The resident’s complaint is about the following: How the landlord handled the resident’s reports of anti-social behaviour from the neighbour above. How the landlord has handled the resident’s requests for security improvements to be made to the property to deter …
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202012635)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the residents reports of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) and inadequate sound insulation at his property.
Sovereign Living Limited (202111761)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the amount the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of a leak entering his property, and the subsequent amount of compensation offered. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaints handling.
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (202103769)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of a leak in the storage cupboard at her property and the handling of the repairs. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Abri Group Limited (202102900)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Complaints Handling categories
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about the suitability of the property. The landlord’s complaint handling.
bpha Limited (202014080)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The leaseholder complains about the landlord’s handling of their reports of the following defects at the property: Front door seal. Gas meter box. Insulation/sound proofing. Internal doors and doorframes. The leaseholder complains about the landlord's overall handling of the formal …
Hackney Council (202118205)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord's handling of the resident’s report of a leak from the property above and the subsequent damage caused to her property.
Wolverhampton City Council (202117510)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns over smells and fumes entering her property. The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns over security related to a key safe at the property. The landlord’s response to the …
Thames Valley Housing Association Limited (202118911)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s delay in providing the resident with a move-in date to the property and its communication around this. The complaint is also about the associated handling of the complaint.
East Midlands Housing Group Limited (202110368)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of deficient insulation around the property’s extension; The landlord’s handling of upgrades and repairs to the property’s central heating; The landlord’s complaint handling.
Soha Housing Limited (202005163)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of soundproofing works to the resident’s property.
Sovereign Living Limited (202015350)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns around the condition of the property’s rear garden; The landlord’s complaint handling.
Orbit Group Limited (202011022)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports of repairs required to the windows at the property. Response to the resident’s reports of repairs required to the roof at the property. Complaints handling.
Southwark Council (202104866)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the residents’ reports of an electrical fault in the property; the residents’ reports of mould growth in the bathroom; its decision to place the residents on a register for potentially aggressive customers; …
Flagship Housing Group Limited (202113213)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of flooding into her former property, including the amount of compensation the landlord paid to the resident for her damaged possessions.
Peabody Trust (202103149)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint was about the landlord's handling of repairs to a leak in the property and its complaint handling.
Southern Housing Group Limited (202110741)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: Reports of damp and mould at her property. Request to be moved to another property.
Runnymede Borough Council (202116044)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled: Repairs to the property’s wetroom. The resident’s reports of damage to fencing. The resident’s request to transfer to another property.
Thames Valley Housing Association Limited (202104887)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of noise transference from her neighbour’s property. The associated complaint.
Barking and Dagenham Council (202017534)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the resident’s reports of damp in his property; the resident’s request to be re-housed; the related complaint.
Gateway Housing Association Limited (202117769)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The level of compensation offered by the landlord for its handling of a water leak into the resident’s property. The landlord’s record keeping and complaint handling.
Haringey London Borough Council (202121817)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about a leak in the property. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (202104914)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) from her neighbour, including: parking outside her property; noise nuisance; blocking the shared pathway to her garden; her subsequent request for a privacy fence; keeping …
Torus62 Limited (202102544)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the resident’s reports of mould growth in her property; the related complaint.
Derwent Housing Association Limited (202110835)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the residents reports of cigarette smoke from the flat above entering her property.
Phoenix Community Housing Association (Bellingham and Downham) Limited (202121475)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: Repairs to the bathroom extractor fan. Repairs to the back door. Damp and mould in the property.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202114535)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about: The information provided by the landlord about the property and the tenancy type during the tenancy offer process in 2019. The landlord sending the resident details about another tenant during the stage one complaint response. The …
Origin Housing Limited (201809019)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns: The landlord's response to the resident's reports of banging and dripping noises from the pipework in the property. The associated formal complaint into the matter.
East Midlands Housing Group Limited (202112444)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about his attempts to purchase the property.
Home Group Limited (202013927)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of repairs to a vent and the heating system at the resident’s property. The landlord’s complaints handling and its decision to apply compensation awarded during the complaints process to the resident’s rent arrears.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (202009843)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s management organisation’s handling of the resident’s complaint about repairs to the gutters in her property.
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202119664)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision not to replace the door at the property. The landlord’s communication and complaint handling.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202122801)
Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision not to provide the resident with a designated parking space, following its error in advising that the property came with designated parking. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Lewisham Council (202103310)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of external works to resolve a damp problem at the resident’s property.
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (202110036)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint was about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s request to sell his shared ownership property on the open market. The landlord’s complaint handling .