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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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Salford City Council

Council.

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Rents out about 1,207 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 Salford City Council grade C2 on 13 May 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 Salford City Council with 108 similar landlords: councils, 1,000 to 9,999 homes. These are tenants' answers to the 2025/26 survey and the landlord's own records.

Overall satisfaction: 74.9% of tenants were happy with the service. That puts it in the upper middle of similar landlords.

Repairs and homes: in the top quarter.

Being heard: in the top quarter.

Neighbourhood: in the top 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.

Source: [3]

Complaints to the Housing Ombudsman

The Housing Ombudsman did not publish figures for Salford City Council 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 repairs85.1%top quarter
Satisfied with how long the last repair took83.7%top quarter
Satisfied the home is well maintained78.6%top quarter
Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard0.0%top quarter
Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time80.9%lower middle
Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time92.7%lower middle
Being heard
Satisfied the landlord listens and acts70.5%top quarter
Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed83.2%top quarter
Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect83.3%top quarter
Satisfied with how complaints are handled44.8%top quarter
First-stage complaints answered in time100.0%top quarter
Second-stage complaints answered in time100.0%top quarter
Neighbourhood
Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept68.3%upper middle
Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood79.3%top quarter
Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled71.1%top quarter
Shown but not compared
Satisfied the home is safe73.3%
First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes67.9
Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes8.3
Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes41.4
Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes0.8

Source: [3]

Where it has homes

Salford City Council is a council. Its homes are in its own area.

See what Salford City Council's council and cabinet meetings have discussed and decided, on Where Councils Stand.

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, Local authority registered provider 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.