Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Council.
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Rents out about 26,739 homes in England. This is the number of tenants in rented homes it counted for its 2025/26 tenant survey.
Source: [5]
The regulator's grade
C3
The Regulator of Social Housing checks how well landlords treat tenants. It gave Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council grade C3 on 30 October 2024.
C3 means there are serious failings. The landlord needs to improve a lot. Grades go from C1 (best) to C4 (worst).
Source: [1]
How it compares
We compared Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council with 50 similar landlords: councils, 10,000 homes or more. These are tenants' answers to the 2025/26 survey and the landlord's own records.
Overall satisfaction: 66.0% 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 upper middle.
Being heard: in the lower 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.
Source: [5]
Complaints to the Housing Ombudsman
In 2025-26, the Housing Ombudsman looked at complaints about Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. It made 80 findings. It found the landlord at fault in 69% of them. It ordered or recommended £13,598 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: [3]
Safety checks
Not all done (as at 31 March 2026):
- Gas safety checks: done for 99.8% of homes that needed them
Source: [5]
The figures, 2025/26
| Measure | Figure | Among similar landlords |
|---|---|---|
| Repairs and homes | ||
| Satisfied with repairs | 73.6% | upper middle |
| Satisfied with how long the last repair took | 68.7% | upper middle |
| Satisfied the home is well maintained | 68.3% | upper middle |
| Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard | 2.5% | upper middle |
| Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time | 78.1% | lower middle |
| Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time | 95.2% | upper middle |
| Being heard | ||
| Satisfied the landlord listens and acts | 59.7% | upper middle |
| Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed | 68.9% | lower middle |
| Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect | 74.7% | lower middle |
| Satisfied with how complaints are handled | 30.2% | lower middle |
| First-stage complaints answered in time | 59.6% | bottom quarter |
| Second-stage complaints answered in time | 65.5% | bottom quarter |
| Neighbourhood | ||
| Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept | 73.9% | top quarter |
| Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood | 65.2% | upper middle |
| Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled | 59.6% | upper middle |
| Shown but not compared | ||
| Satisfied the home is safe | 73.8% | |
| First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes | 52.3 | |
| Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes | 13.6 | |
| Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes | 168.1 | |
| Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes | 4.2 | |
Source: [5]
Earlier Ombudsman figures
From October 2025 the Ombudsman looks at how complaints were handled in every case. So these figures are not comparable with earlier years.
| Year | Name in the report | Findings | At fault |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | 35 | 89% |
Source: [2]
Where it has homes
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council is a council. Its homes are in its own area.
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.
- Housing Ombudsman Service, Landlords with individual performance reports ( xlsx ) ( xlsx, 0.39 MB) (2024-25). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. © Housing Ombudsman Service; reuse terms being confirmed.
- 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.
- Regulator of Social Housing, Local authority registered provider 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.