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Where Landlords Stand A Where They Stand project

What social landlords in England are like, from what the regulator and the Housing Ombudsman publish.

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Calico Homes

Housing association.

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Rents out about 5,479 homes in England. This is the number of tenants in rented homes it counted for its 2025/26 tenant survey.

Source: [4]

The regulator's grade

C2

The Regulator of Social Housing checks how well landlords treat tenants. It gave Calico Homes grade C2 on 25 September 2024.

C2 means there are some weaknesses. The landlord needs to improve. Grades go from C1 (best) to C4 (worst).

Source: [1]

How it compares

We compared Calico Homes with 118 similar landlords: housing associations and for-profit landlords, 1,000 to 9,999 homes. These are tenants' answers to the 2025/26 survey and the landlord's own records.

Overall satisfaction: 74.1% of tenants were happy with the service. That puts it in the lower middle of similar landlords.

Repairs and homes: in the upper middle. ↑ Up from lower middle in 2024/25.

Being heard: in the bottom quarter. ↓ Down from lower middle in 2024/25.

Neighbourhood: in the lower middle. ↓ Down from upper middle in 2024/25.

Top quarter means it did better than at least three in four similar landlords. Bottom quarter means it did worse than at least three in four.

Source: [4]

Complaints to the Housing Ombudsman

In 2025-26, the Housing Ombudsman looked at complaints about Calico Homes Limited. It made 8 findings. It found the landlord at fault in 38% of them. It ordered or recommended £1,300 in compensation.

From October 2025 the Ombudsman looks at how complaints were handled in every case. So these figures are not comparable with earlier years.

Source: [2]

Safety checks

Not all done (as at 31 March 2026):

  • Fire risk assessments: done for 99.1% of homes that needed them

Source: [4]

The figures, 2025/26

MeasureFigureAmong similar landlords
Repairs and homes
Satisfied with repairs80.3%upper middle
Satisfied with how long the last repair took78.4%upper middle
Satisfied the home is well maintained72.7%lower middle
Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard0.0%top quarter
Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time98.5%top quarter
Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time98.7%upper middle
Being heard
Satisfied the landlord listens and acts61.9%bottom quarter
Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed70.2%bottom quarter
Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect78.2%lower middle
Satisfied with how complaints are handled31.1%bottom quarter
First-stage complaints answered in time75.9%bottom quarter
Second-stage complaints answered in time64.5%bottom quarter
Neighbourhood
Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept75.4%upper middle
Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood66.3%lower middle
Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled62.2%lower middle
Shown but not compared
Satisfied the home is safe80.3%
First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes31.0
Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes5.7
Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes27.2
Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes0.4

Source: [4]

Where it has homes

Homes it owns in each council area, 31 March 2026. We added up the figures for each company in the group.

Source: [3]

Compare with other landlords

Where these figures come from

Every figure on this page comes from one of these published files. We do not change them.

  1. Regulator of Social Housing, Regulatory Judgements and Enforcement Notices Table (current). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
  2. Housing Ombudsman Service, Landlords performance data tables ( xlsx ) ( xlsx, 0.4 MB) (2025-26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. © Housing Ombudsman Service; reuse terms being confirmed.
  3. Regulator of Social Housing, Private registered providers data release (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
  4. Regulator of Social Housing, Tenant Satisfaction Measures Full Dataset (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.