Methodology and sources

Who owns the social housing in your area and how the landlords perform, and who really runs and owns each care home operator in England — from the Regulator of Social Housing, CQC and Companies House registers.

Social housing

• Housing association homes by local authority: the Regulator of Social Housing's Statistical Data Return (geographic look-up tool), stock on 31 March 2026. Each registered provider is mapped to the group that reports Tenant Satisfaction Measures for it using the regulator's own group look-up tool (provider → parent → ultimate parent); 96% of housing association homes belong to a landlord with Tenant Satisfaction Measures, about a quarter of them through their group.
• Council homes by district: MHCLG Live Table 116 (31 March 2025). Councils are matched to their Tenant Satisfaction Measures by name. Council homes on the Leigh Park estate in Havant belong to Portsmouth City Council and are shown as such.
• Tenant Satisfaction Measures 2023/24 and 2024/25 (full data). Perception measures (TP01–TP12) come from each landlord's tenant survey; management measures (RP01, RP02, CH01, CH02, BS01, BS02, NM01) from its records. RP01 is calculated from the numerator and denominator the landlord reported. Landlords with fewer than 1,000 homes do not have to report.
• Regulatory grades: the regulator's regulatory judgements table (consumer C1–C4 since April 2024, governance G1–G4, viability V1–V4), current grades only.
• Decent Homes failures for one area are available only for housing associations (Statistical Data Return); a council's figure covers its whole stock.
• Pages: every local authority area with social housing; a landlord-in-area page from 100 homes (in search indexes from 250); a page for every landlord that reported Tenant Satisfaction Measures and for providers without them that own 1,000 or more homes.

Care homes

• CQC register of active locations (monthly file; its date is on every page): locations flagged as care homes, not dormant. Operator = the registered provider and its Companies House number as given by CQC (91% of homes).
• Owner of the operator: from the Companies House persons with significant control snapshot, we follow the corporate controller (the one with the most kinds of control if there are several) upwards while it is a UK company, until the chain ends with individuals, a statement, an exemption, no registered controller or a company registered abroad. Names of individuals are never shown.
• Company status and accounts dates: Companies House Free Company Data Product (monthly). “Overdue” = the next accounts or confirmation statement date had passed on the date of that file.
• Charges: taken from each company's charges register (Companies House API), not from the “has charges” flag of the company profile, which can be wrong. Outstanding = not fully satisfied.
• Food hygiene: Food Standards Agency open data; the establishment at the home's postcode whose name is most similar to the home or the operator (similarity at least 0.6), or the only “caring premises” at that postcode.
• Districts and councils: social housing is counted by district (lower-tier council), care homes by the county or unitary council responsible for adult social care. Each district page links to its council's care homes and each council page to the social housing of its districts, using the ONS Local Authority District to County and Unitary Authority lookup (April 2025).
• Pages: every council area; every operator with two or more homes (except individuals and partnerships); and a page for a single home when its operator is itself owned by another company — that is when “who owns this home” has an answer beyond the name on the door.

What this is not

These are facts from public registers, not ratings of financial risk or care quality beyond what CQC publishes. Figures are as published in the registers on the data dates shown; Tenant Satisfaction Measures are for 2024/25, the latest published when this site was built.

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