RLHA Group is a leading not-for-profit provider of housing and care services to elderly people and others.

A registered housing association founded in 1971, RLHA has pioneered innovative solutions to the housing and care needs of elderly people
for over thirty years including:

• The very first leasehold retirement scheme in the UK (1973)
• The first shared ownership scheme ever developed (1976)
• One of the earliest housing association domiciliary care services (1994)
• Appointed manager of the first leasehold retirement scheme to enfranchise (1996)
• Appointed manager of the first retirement scheme to choose Right to Manage (2006)

The Group operates through Retirement Lease Housing Association with its subsidiary Ethical Leasehold Management Limited.


Staff are based at offices in Aldershot and Guildford, and serve many of the southeast counties and Greater London.