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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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Golden Lane Housing

Housing association.

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Rents out about 2,698 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

C1

The Regulator of Social Housing checks how well landlords treat tenants. It gave Golden Lane Housing grade C1 on 13 May 2026.

C1 means the landlord is doing what the regulator expects. Grades go from C1 (best) to C4 (worst).

Source: [1]

How it compares

We compared Golden Lane 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: 80.2% of tenants were happy with the service. That puts it in the upper middle of similar landlords.

Repairs and homes: in the lower middle. ↓ Down from upper middle in 2024/25.

Being heard: in the upper middle.

Neighbourhood: in the upper middle.

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.

Golden Lane Housing asked tenants mostly by post. 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 Golden Lane Housing for 2025-26. It does this for landlords with 5 or more findings in a year.

Safety checks

Not all done (as at 31 March 2026):

  • Gas safety checks: done for 99.9% of homes that needed them
  • Asbestos checks: done for 69.4% of homes that needed them

Source: [3]

The figures, 2025/26

MeasureFigureAmong similar landlords
Repairs and homes
Satisfied with repairs81.8%upper middle
Satisfied with how long the last repair took74.6%lower middle
Satisfied the home is well maintained78.3%lower middle
Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard0.1%lower middle
Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time90.9%upper middle
Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time89.9%bottom quarter
Being heard
Satisfied the landlord listens and acts70.7%upper middle
Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed75.6%lower middle
Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect83.2%lower middle
Satisfied with how complaints are handled60.5%top quarter
First-stage complaints answered in time92.0%lower middle
Second-stage complaints answered in time100.0%top quarter
Neighbourhood
Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept75.0%upper middle
Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood71.9%upper middle
Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled74.6%top quarter
Shown but not compared
Satisfied the home is safe84.9%
First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes27.2
Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes0.6
Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes26.0
Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes1.3

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.

and 190 more areas

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.