English Rural Housing Association
Housing association.
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Rents out about 1,147 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
C2
The Regulator of Social Housing checks how well landlords treat tenants. It gave English Rural Housing Association grade C2 on 29 July 2026.
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 English Rural Housing Association 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: 78.2% of tenants were happy with the service. That puts it in the lower middle of similar landlords. ↓ Down from upper middle in 2024/25.
Repairs and homes: in the lower middle. ↓ Down from upper middle in 2024/25.
Being heard: in the lower middle.
Neighbourhood: in the bottom quarter.
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.
English Rural Housing Association 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 English Rural Housing Association 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
| Measure | Figure | Among similar landlords |
|---|---|---|
| Repairs and homes | ||
| Satisfied with repairs | 80.3% | upper middle |
| Satisfied with how long the last repair took | 74.2% | lower middle |
| Satisfied the home is well maintained | 71.2% | bottom quarter |
| Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard | 0.0% | top quarter |
| Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time | 79.8% | lower middle |
| Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time | 96.8% | lower middle |
| Being heard | ||
| Satisfied the landlord listens and acts | 58.1% | bottom quarter |
| Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed | 67.7% | bottom quarter |
| Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect | 72.1% | bottom quarter |
| Satisfied with how complaints are handled | 43.3% | lower middle |
| First-stage complaints answered in time | 100.0% | top quarter |
| Second-stage complaints answered in time | 100.0% | top quarter |
| Neighbourhood | ||
| Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept | 40.1% | bottom quarter |
| Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood | 50.3% | bottom quarter |
| Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled | 51.5% | bottom quarter |
| Shown but not compared | ||
| Satisfied the home is safe | 82.4% | |
| First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes | 17.8 | |
| Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes | 5.9 | |
| Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes | 5.7 | |
| Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes | 0.0 | |
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.
- Ashford: 138
- Test Valley: 114
- Cotswold: 72
- Uttlesford: 72
- Waverley: 55
- South Cambridgeshire: 50
- New Forest: 47
- Tendring: 45
- Forest of Dean: 43
- Stroud: 39
- Swale: 34
- Tandridge: 32
and 35 more areas
Source: [2]
Where these figures come from
Every figure on this page comes from one of these published files. We do not change them.
- Regulator of Social Housing, Regulatory Judgements and Enforcement Notices Table (current). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Regulator of Social Housing, Private registered providers data release (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Regulator of Social Housing, Tenant Satisfaction Measures Full Dataset (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.