Every month, an organisation called IFF Research contacted a sample of our residents to ask them to complete a survey about our services. It included a variety of questions ranging from the type of services received to the way we communicated.
In 2024/25, we surveyed 686 of our residents including tenants, leaseholders and shareholders living in towns and villages in the areas we work in, to make sure everyone was represented. The results published are the responses of the 614 residents in rental accommodation surveyed. All surveys were completed over the phone.
In 2024/25, IFF achieved:
- 607 responses, to the first TSM question (Taking everything into account, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the service provided by Fairhive?) from residents living in rental accommodation*.
- 69 responses from residents living in a home they own, sold by us. As we have less than 1000 homes sold for ownership this research is carried out on a ‘best effort basis’.
* 'Rental accommodation' refers to general needs and Independent Living Scheme tenancies.
To make sure that the number of residents contacted accurately represents all of our residents, the required number of residents to contact are shown in the table below (in line with our Statistical Data Return 2024 to the Regulator of Social Housing, and the latest population data provided by us in April 2024):
Required number of residents to contact
Tenure type |
Population |
Confidence interval required |
Number of interviews per annum for submission |
Number of interviews completed |
Low-Cost Rental Accommodation (LCRA) |
8413 |
+/-4% |
560 |
614 |
Low-Cost Home Ownership (LCHO) |
401 |
N/A — less than 1,000 |
N/A — less than 1,000 |
72 |
Total |
8814 |
|
560 |
686 |
We are required to complete a minimum of 560 surveys per year from residents living in our rented homes (either general needs or Independent Living Schemes), to meet a +/-4% confidence interval. This figure provides us with a reliable percentage of the number of surveys required to represent the feedback from our tenants.
As we have less than 1,000 shared ownership homes, we do not have to conduct this survey and report the findings to the regulator. However, the Regulator recommends that customers are still offered an opportunity to provide their feedback. Therefore, we included these customers within our research and surveyed 18% of our customer base (72 customers). It was agreed that we would survey a specific number, based on agreed characteristics to be able to represent all of our customers. The data set we used was age. During the survey, we monitored, and also compared responses against all of our customers to ensure they represented tenure sub-type, ethnic group, gender, geographical area and disability status. We need to make sure, as much as we can, that your responses to the TSMs are representative of your resident group.
Read our 2024/25 results by clicking the button below. When reading our report, we have compared it to our performance in 2023/24 when the collection of TSMs started. Red indicates a decline in performance and green an improvement.
Tenant Satisfaction Measures Reporting 24-25[pdf] 504KB