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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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Cornerstone Housing

Housing association.

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Rents out about 1,400 homes in England. This is the number of tenants in rented homes it counted for its 2025/26 tenant survey.

Source: [3]

The regulator's grade

The Regulator of Social Housing has not yet given Cornerstone Housing a grade for how it treats tenants.

Source: [1]

How it compares

We compared Cornerstone Housing 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: 88.6% of tenants were happy with the service. That puts it in the top quarter of similar landlords.

Repairs and homes: in the top quarter.

Being heard: in the upper middle. ↓ Down from top quarter in 2024/25.

Neighbourhood: in the upper middle. ↑ Up from lower 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.

Cornerstone Housing asked tenants mostly by online. Most similar landlords asked by telephone. How tenants are asked can change the results.

Source: [3]

Complaints to the Housing Ombudsman

The Housing Ombudsman did not publish figures for Cornerstone Housing for 2025-26. It does this for landlords with 5 or more findings in a year.

Safety checks

All done. Every home that needed a gas, fire, asbestos, water or lift safety check had one (as at 31 March 2026).

Source: [3]

The figures, 2025/26

MeasureFigureAmong similar landlords
Repairs and homes
Satisfied with repairs90.8%top quarter
Satisfied with how long the last repair took87.2%top quarter
Satisfied the home is well maintained89.8%top quarter
Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard0.9%bottom quarter
Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time91.7%upper middle
Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time92.2%bottom quarter
Being heard
Satisfied the landlord listens and acts79.0%top quarter
Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed82.1%upper middle
Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect87.2%upper middle
Satisfied with how complaints are handled53.3%top quarter
First-stage complaints answered in time89.2%bottom quarter
Second-stage complaints answered in time87.5%lower middle
Neighbourhood
Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept74.3%upper middle
Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood75.4%upper middle
Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled63.7%lower middle
Shown but not compared
Satisfied the home is safe91.0%
First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes79.3
Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes11.4
Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes38.6
Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes2.7

Source: [3]

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: [2]

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. Regulator of Social Housing, Private registered providers data release (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
  3. Regulator of Social Housing, Tenant Satisfaction Measures Full Dataset (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.