Better homes
We are a leading developer of high quality, affordable homes
We provide a wide range of rental and homeownership opportunities for people at every stage of life.
We build and manage mixed income, mixed tenure neighbourhoods. Our work includes providing social, affordable and intermediate rental homes, sheltered housing, care homes, shared ownership and homes for private sale.
Award winning quality
- Catalyst was named Affordable Home Ownership Provider of the Year in 2011, commended for ‘introducing outstanding schemes into the market’
- Our development in South Acton was named ‘best regeneration project’ 2011 at the Affordable Home Ownership Awards, and ‘best urban regeneration’ at the 2011 First Time Buyer’s magazine awards
- Our regeneration of Dee Park in Reading won silver for ‘best partnership scheme’ at the prestigious 2011 What House? Awards
- Portobello Square, part of our Wornington Green regeneration scheme, won a ‘project winner’ accolade at the 2011 Housing Design Awards
- Our eco-homes project in Reading recently won the ‘sustainable smaller housing retrofit project of the year (fewer than 25 homes)’ award at the 2012 Sustainable Housing Awards
- Our flagship sustainable development, The Greenway in Hounslow, has recently been highly commended in three separate categories at the 2013 Sustainable City Awards. It was also voted ‘best small development’ by the readers of First Time Buyer magazine
Building high quality homes
Catalyst is a major developer of new homes. We expect to build more than 7,000 new homes by 2020, housing 21,000 more people across London and the South East. We believe in mixed income, mixed tenure neighbourhoods.
We provide a first class housing management service throughout our communities.
Sustainability
Catalyst is one of the most environmentally friendly housing associations. We are one of only two housing providers in the country to achieve gold in the highly challenging SHIFT sustainability benchmarking scheme.
We are committed to preserving natural resources and increasing the use of renewable energy sources in the construction of our homes, as well as developing sustainable regeneration and asset management practices.
The Greenway, our award winning sustainable development in Hounslow, is in the first wave of buildings designed to meet the highest standards for eco-friendly sustainable homes. It is also the first to meet the mayor of London’s new housing design guidelines.
Find out what we’re doing to reduce our environmental impact and carry out our business in a sustainable way.
Private sale developer
Catalyst by Design is our non-charitable subsidiary company that develops homes for private sale. We use the profits to cross-subsidise our charitable work. Catalyst by Design is currently active on sites in Luton, Harrow and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Within five years, we expect Catalyst by Design to deliver around 300 private sale homes each year, reflecting our commitment to developing mixed income, mixed tenure schemes.