How Your Rent is Spent | Executive Pay & Management Costs | Accent Housing

As part of the Consumer Standards the Regulator of Social Housing requires Housing Associations to publish information annually on what we pay our executive directors and board members, together with the cost of managing the organisation.

In 2025/26 we paid our executive team and independent board members a total of £1.7m, equivalent to £84.02 per social housing unit. The Chief Executive Officer was the highest paid executive and was paid a total of £247k, or £12.22 per social housing unit.

In 2025/26 we spent £112m on the management of social housing. This includes the direct costs of managing customers’ homes such as routine and planned maintenance and major repairs, together with the day-to-day costs of running the organisation, including support service costs such as running our offices and IT systems. Management costs represent £5,537 per social housing unit.

Where your money goes

For every £1 of rent you pay, we spend it on the services, repairs and improvements needed to manage and maintain your homes.

The chart below shows how we spent our money in 2025/26.

22%

Day-to-day repairs and maintenance

to keep homes safe and in good condition

19%

Replacing things that wear out

such as kitchens, bathrooms, windows and doors

16%

Managing homes and services

including customer support and housing management

15%

Major planned repairs and improvements

to our homes and neighbourhoods

13%

Net finance costs

such as interest on money borrowed to invest in homes

10%

Service charge costs

including services provided to some schemes and communities

2%

Lost rent from empty homes

while they are being prepared for new customers

1%

Letting homes

and tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB)

1%

Unpaid rent (rent arrears)

that has not been paid and may not be recovered.

1%

Money kept aside

to reinvest in homes and services

1%

(less than 1p)

other costs

Download our infographic on how we spend your rent here