Orbit Group is a housing group providing affordable housing to around 47,000 households in England, mainly in the Midlands, East Anglia and the south east, operating out of 7 offices with its head office in Coventry.
Orbit Group is a not-for-profit organisation that is socially driven and commercially minded and is committed to creating a better society, building affordable homes and communities, and to do so in more socially responsible and sustainable ways.
Thanet Community Housing Association joined the group in 2004 and brought with it stock in east Kent.
Orbit is active in promoting shared ownership as well as providing homes for affordable rent.
Orbit Homes build in excess of 1,000 new homes per year across a range of tenures including Shared Ownership and Outright Sale throughout the Midlands, East and South East of England [3] From 2012 to 2021, Baroness Tessa Blackstone sat on the board of Orbit Group as its future Chair.