Around one in ten business properties in England and Wales is flagged by our checks as paying too much in business ratesThe tax most non-residential properties in England and Wales pay to their local council, similar to council tax but for shops, offices, warehouses and other business premises., and 57% of challenges to the Valuation Office secure a reduction. Check yours against the published rating listThe public register listing every business property's Rateable Value. The current list is the '2026 list', based on rental values from 1 April 2024. — free, independent, and we show you the evidence.
Our own analysis of the 2026 Rating List — 2 million properties in England and Wales, updated several times a week. Free to read, free to cite, methodology published in full.
Real corrections to the 2026 rating list, updated as the Valuation Office publishes them
The Valuation Office took £1.22m off rateable values in October, a fourth monthly fall but far smaller than September's. Cuts still outnumbered rises two to one and the median cut was the deepest we have recorded, at 5%. Formal Challenges reached a new high. Here's what moved, where, and what it means for your own bill.
ReadMore than 2,400 shops, cafés, pubs and salons in Birmingham, and over 1,200 each in Cornwall and North Yorkshire, will stop paying business rates from April 2027 under the Budget's new relief thresholds. Here is the top ten, the councils where the biggest share gains, and why.
ReadThe Budget confirmed the rise in Small Business Rate Relief we wrote about in September, and took it to £18,000, but only for retail, hospitality and leisure properties. Here is what it saves at each rateable value, how many properties in England stand to gain, what it will cost and how it will work.
ReadEnter a postcode. We match your property to the latest VOAThe government body that sets every property's Rateable Value. From April 2026 the VOA is part of HMRC (see below), but 'VOA' is still the common name for the valuation side of the work. ratings information, updated several times a week, and pull its rateable valueThe official estimate of a property's annual rental value on a fixed valuation date. Your rates bill is based on this figure, not on what you actually pay in rent., floor areas and zone breakdown. We also match VOA data to additional sources to improve our recommendations.
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