Harbour Homes Rent Consultation

Rent Consultation 2026-27

Our annual rent consultation is underway, and you are invited to share your views with us. This review helps us to assess how much rental income will be required in 2026/27 to achieve balance between keeping rents affordable and maintaining your home.  Your feedback will be included in our report to the Board of Management for their consideration when approving the level of rent increase for next year.

As a thank you, you will be invited to enter our £100 prize draw at the end of the questionnaire.

If you would like to make your views known to us, please click the button below to fill out our questionnaire no later than Sunday 16 November. This will also be sent to you by post if you would prefer to share your views by letter.

We will let you know of the new rent charge by 28 February 2026.

Take our questionnaire

Affordability

For the purposes of rent setting, we use the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations’ definition. This aims to ensure that, on average, people on moderate incomes (just above the typical qualifying levels for Housing Benefit) should not have to spend more than 30% of their income on rent.

The term affordable will mean different things to different people.

This year’s rent review takes into account:

  • Affordability for tenants*
  • Rents set by other housing associations and the council
  • Income required to repair and improve properties and maintain our services

Steps taken to keep rents affordable:

  • Continue to paused our future development programme
  • Restructuring our operations to reduce duplication and improve efficiencies
  • Capped our average rent increase to below inflationary increases as measured by both the consumer price index (CPI) and retail price index (RPI) over the last four years
  • Implemented a new three-year business plan to allow for a period of consolidation

*The term ‘affordable’ will mean different things to different people. For the purposes of rent setting, we use the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations’ definition. This aims to ensure that, on average, people on moderate incomes (just above the typical qualifying levels for Housing Benefit) should not have to spend more than 30% of their income on rent.

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