Decision

Red Kite Community Housing Limited (4682) - Regulatory Judgement: 12 November 2025

Updated 12 November 2025

Applies to England

Our Judgement 

	Grade/Judgement	Change	Date of assessment
Consumer		Not assessed yet
Governance	G1  Our judgement is that the landlord meets our governance requirements.	Assessed and unchanged	November 2025
Viability	V1  Our judgement is that the landlord meets our viability requirements and has the financial capacity to deal with a wide range of adverse scenarios.	Assessed and unchanged	November 2025

Reason for publication 

We are publishing a regulatory judgement for Red Kite Community Housing Limited (Red Kite) following a stability check completed in November 2025.    

This regulatory judgement confirms a governance grade of G1 and a financial viability grade of V1.  

Summary of the decision 

Based on the relevant information and evidence we reviewed in carrying out the stability check, our judgement is that Red Kite meets our viability requirements and has the financial capacity to deal with a wide range of adverse scenarios. We have therefore concluded the landlord’s grade is unchanged and issue a V1 grade for Red Kite. 

From the stability check, there is no evidence to indicate a change in governance grade is required. Red Kite’s governance grade remains G1. 

This regulatory judgement is based on a stability check which does not include an assessment of Red Kite’s delivery of the outcomes of our consumer standards.  

Prior to this regulatory judgement, the governance and financial viability grades for Red Kite were last updated in December 2024 following a stability check to issue a governance grade of G1 and a financial viability grade of V1.  

How we reached our judgement 

We carried out a stability check of Red Kite as part of our annual stability check programme.  

Our judgement about how well Red Kite is delivering the viability outcomes of our Governance and Financial Viability Standard is based on a review of a range of documents provided by Red Kite, as well as analysis of information supplied by Red Kite in its regulatory returns. 

In confirming Red Kite’s governance grade as part of the stability check, our work was limited to verifying that the information contained in Red Kite’s regulatory returns did not appear inconsistent with its existing published governance grade. 

Our stability checks do not assess a landlord’s delivery of the outcomes of our consumer standards.  

Summary of findings 

Governance – G1 - November 2025 

From the stability check, there is no evidence to indicate that a change in governance grade is required. 

Viability – V1 - November 2025 

Based on evidence gained from the stability check, we have assurance that Red Kite meets the viability requirements of the Governance and Financial Viability Standard. 

Red Kite has a strong financial profile and forecasts that it will continue to meet its covenants under a wide range of adverse scenarios. Red Kite has provided appropriate assurance that it has access to sufficient liquidity and security to support its plans. Its stress testing demonstrates that financial capacity is built into its business plan. 

Background to the judgement 

About the landlord 

According to the 2025 statistical data return Red Kite owns 5,417 homes in the South East.   

Our role and regulatory approach 

We regulate for a viable, efficient, and well governed social housing sector able to deliver quality homes and services for current and future tenants.   

We regulate at the landlord level to drive improvement in how landlords operate. By landlord we mean a registered provider of social housing. These can either be local authorities, or private registered providers (other organisations registered with us such as non-profit housing associations, co-operatives, or profit-making organisations).  

We set standards which state outcomes that landlords must deliver. The outcomes of our standards include both the required outcomes and specific expectations we set. Where we find there are significant failures in landlords which we consider to be material to the landlord’s delivery of those outcomes, we hold them to account. Ultimately this provides protection for tenants’ homes and services and achieves better outcomes for current and future tenants. It also contributes to a sustainable sector which can attract strong investment.  

We have a different role for regulating local authorities than for other landlords. This is because we have a narrower role for local authorities and the Governance and Financial Viability Standard, and Value for Money Standard do not apply. Further detail on which standards apply to different landlords can be found on our standards page.  

We assess the performance of landlords through inspections and by reviewing data that landlords are required to submit to us. In Depth Assessments (IDAs) were one of our previous assessment processes, which are now replaced by our inspections programme from 1 April 2024. We also respond where there is an issue or a potential issue that may be material to a landlord’s delivery of the outcomes of our standards. We publish regulatory judgements that describe our view of landlords’ performance with our standards. We also publish grades for landlords with more than 1,000 social housing homes.  

The Housing Ombudsman deals with individual complaints. When individual complaints are referred to us, we investigate if we consider that the issue may be material to a landlord’s delivery of the outcomes of our standards.   

For more information about our approach to regulation, please see Regulating the Standards.

Further information

• Regulating the standards
• Regulatory standards for landlords