Housing providers
Data was released in August 2024 by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) about housing owned by registered providers across the country. This was based on data collected for the year April 2022 to March 2023.
The latest data shows a total of 71 housing providers owning and managing just less than 50,000 homes across Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk. In addition City Homes in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire District Council own and manage around 13,000 homes. These are included in the tables but not in as much detail as other housing providers.
This means a total of 63,000 housing provider and local authority homes in Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk. Peterborough data is available by following this link – you can use the “geographic look-up tool” to find any area or housing provider’s data. A table is included for Peterborough which is based on the previous years’ data.
You can find out more about the Regulator of Social Housing here.
What is a registered housing provider?
Registered housing providers include local authority (council) landlords and ‘private registered providers’ such as not-for-profit housing associations and for-profit organisations (adapted from this government webage).
They are organisations that provide affordable homes for people in housing need. They are also known as Registered Social Landlords or Housing Associations. They are required to be on the register in England and they are run independently from councils. They vary in size and can be not for profit or profit-making. They are the main developers of new homes in the social housing sector.
On this page, we have included almshouses and some charitable housing providers, aiming to give a complete picture of housing partners active in our area, and the types of homes they own and manage.
Who are the big ones?
Cambridge City Homes and South Cambridgeshire District Council housing are the only two councils who continue to own and manage council housing. The other local authorities have transferred their housing to a housing association partner, known as stock transfer landlords. These are:
- Sanctuary in East Cambridgeshire
- Clarion in Fenland
- Chorus Homes in Huntingdonshire. In 2024 the data for Chorus Homes in all areas is now found under “Places for People Homes and PfP Living+” instead of under “Chorus Homes” because Chorus is part of the Places for People group. (Cotman Homes has also been removed and the homes listed previously for Cotman are now listed under Places for People.)
- Cross Keys in Peterborough
- Flagship and Havebury in West Suffolk.
How many others are there?
In addition, in each district there are other housing providers who own and manage homes. These include housing associations, almshouse trusts and other providers registered with Homes England.
Some own very small numbers of homes and focus on particular locations or issues – others have a large number of homes across the whole area.
- 32 registered providers own housing in Cambridge, representing 6,084 homes (plus City Homes owns 7,353 homes)
- 29 registered providers own housing in East Cambridgeshire, representing 6,112 homes
- 31 registered providers own housing in Fenland, representing 6,092 homes
- 36 registered providers own housing in Huntingdonshire, representing 11,891 homes
- 33 registered providers own housing in South Cambridgeshire, representing 6,054 homes (plus SCDC owns 5,814 homes)
- 34 registered providers own housing in West Suffolk, representing 13,761 homes
Many of the providers operate in more than one district, which is why the number of providers on the list above does not add up to 71.
In 2024 we have updated this directory using 2022-23 data. We’ve included a guide to the type and number 
of homes each provider owns and/or manages in that district, and a link to each one’s website home page so you can find out more. We have also added links to regulatory judgments where they are available, and a “Y” if the housing provider has signed up to the “Homes for Cathy” pledge as at the end of September 2024. You can find out more about the campaign here.
Where does the data come from?
- The list of providers comes from the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). The data is gathered from each provider in March /April each year, it’s then checked and published – usually in October. As soon as we can, we publish the local information here on Cambridgeshire Insight.
- Some providers do not appear to have a website but these can be added, if you can provide the missing information. In the case of some smaller charities a link to the Charity Commission listing has been added so you get a little more background about these providers.
- Provider names and stock numbers can change during the course of a year, so the list is reviewed and updated annually when the data is published.
- The most recent update can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/lists-of-registered-social-housing-providers-and-regulatory-judgements
Look-up tools and other information, can be found here.
Regulatory judgements
Links to regulatory judgments (where available) which are made by the Regulator of Social Housing, were added from August 2021 onwards. The source of the links can be found here. Only housing providers with more than 1,000 homes nationally, get a regulatory judgement. This explains why some smaller providers don’t have a link to a judgment report.
You can find a full list of regulated providers here.
Where an association is part of a group, the link provided may take you to the regulatory judgement for the whole group, not the individual organisation listed – for example, the MHT link takes you to Thames Valley Housing’s regulatory judgement as MHT is now part of the Thames Valley Housing group.
There is a page about regulatory standards here if you want to know more.
Notes
- In each district’s table, LCHO is short for low cost home ownership.
- HA is short for Housing Association.
- “Limited” and Ltd have been removed from associations’ names to keep tables as brief as possible.
Cambridge
In Cambridge, council housing is owned and managed by Cambridge City Homes, please see https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/housing.
Here is a list of housing providers registered with Homes England who own and/or manage homes in Cambridge, with a guide to the number and type of homes as at March 2023.
If you click on the blue provider name, their home page will open in a new window to help you find out more.
East Cambridgeshire
Here is a list of housing providers registered with Homes England who own and/or manage homes in East Cambridgeshire, with a guide to the number and type of homes as at March 2023.
If you click on the blue provider name, their home page will open in a new window to help you find out more.
| Updated using stock figures @ March 2023 | General needs | Supported | Older peoples | LCHO | Total | Regulatory judgement | Homes for Cathy |
| Accent Group | 18 | 15 | 33 | Click | Y | ||
| bpha | 8 | 15 | 23 | Click | |||
| Cambridgeshire Cottage Housing Society (no website) | 9 | 9 | – | ||||
| CHS Group | 380 | 33 | 125 | 538 | Click | ||
| Clarion Housing Group | 119 | 66 | 185 | Click | |||
| Eastlight Community Homes | 8 | 8 | Click | ||||
| Empower HA | 6 | 6 | Click | ||||
| Flagship Housing Group | 156 | 33 | 189 | Click | Y | ||
| Futures Homescape | 2 | 2 | Click | ||||
| Hastoe Housing | 93 | 25 | 118 | Click | Y | ||
| Havebury Housing Partnership | 36 | 36 | 72 | Click | Y | ||
| Heylo Housing | 28 | 28 | Click | ||||
| Hundred Houses Society | 89 | 23 | 112 | Click | Y | ||
| Longhurst Group | 62 | 65 | 20 | 147 | Click | Y | |
| MHT (formerly Metropolitan) | 63 | 4 | 9 | 76 | Click | ||
| Muir Group | 1 | 1 | Click | ||||
| Orbit group & Orbit Housing Assn | 34 | 4 | 38 | Click | Y | ||
| Papworth Trust | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Park Properties HA | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Places for People & PfP Living+ | 4 | 4 | Click | Y | |||
| Progress HA | 6 | 6 | Click | Y | |||
| Saffron Housing Trust | 5 | 1 | 6 | Click | Y | ||
| Sage Homes | 86 | 40 | 126 | Click | |||
| Sage Rented | 17 | 17 | Click | ||||
| Sanctuary HA & Affordable Housing | 3,220 | 52 | 951 | 103 | 4,326 | Click | Y |
| Sovereign Housing | 1 | 1 | Click | Y | |||
| Stonewater | 25 | 8 | 33 | Click | |||
| Total | 4,421 | 114 | 1,016 | 561 | 6,112 |
Fenland
Here is a list of housing providers registered with Homes England who own and/or manage homes in Fenland, with a guide to the number and type of homes as at March 2023.
If you click on the blue provider name, their home page will open in a new window to help you find out more.
Huntingdonshire
Here is a list of housing providers registered with Homes England who own and/or manage homes in Huntingdonshire, with a guide to the number and type of homes as at March 2023.
If you click on the blue provider name, their home page will open in a new window to help you find out more.
Peterborough
Here is a list of housing providers registered with Homes England who own and/or manage homes in Peterborough, with a guide to the number and type of homes as at March 2022. This table has not been updated in 2024, please note these are 2022 figures, not 2023.
If you click on the blue provider name, their home page will open in a new window to help you find out more.
South Cambridgeshire
In South Cambridgeshire, council housing is owned and managed by South Cambridgeshire District Council – please see https://www.scambs.gov.uk/housing/information-for-council-tenants/ for more detail.
Here is a list of housing providers registered with Homes England who own and/or manage homes in South Cambridgeshire, with a guide to the number and type of homes as at March 2023.
If you click on the blue provider name, their home page will open in a new window to help you find out more.
West Suffolk
Here is a list of housing providers registered with Homes England who own and/or manage homes in the former Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury areas, now known as West Suffolk, with a guide to the number and type of homes as at March 2023.
If you click on the blue provider name, their home page will open in a new window to help you find out more.
Feedback?
If you have any feedback, suggestions, comments or additions to make, please e-mail sue.beecroft@cambridge.gov.uk – thank you!