Get the latest news and find out when a rateable value near you changes — and when the rules do

What you’ll get

Rateable value changesMonthly

• Your valuation schemeThe VOA values a parade of shops as one scheme, at an agreed rate per square metre. When it reduces one unit, that is the single most useful signal you can get about your own value.
• The wider areaEverything else that changed in your postcode district that month, so you can see whether a movement is local to you or general.
• The marketHow rateable values moved across England by sector and by council, and where Checks and Challenges are being filed.

News and analysisAs we publish

• Every new articleEach piece we publish on business rates — Budget changes, reliefs, appeal success rates — emailed about an hour after it goes live.
• Nothing elseNo digests and no marketing. If we publish nothing, you hear nothing. It is a separate email from the monthly update, with its own one-click unsubscribe.

Tribunal decisionsAs they land

• New decisions as they landWhen the Valuation Tribunal for England publishes new business rates decisions and we add them to the site, you get one email listing each case — outcome, council and, where the tribunal cut it, the old and new rateable value.
• A link to every caseEach one links straight to its page here, with our summary and the full judgment. Several cases landing together come as one email, not one each.

On the monthly update: most months are quiet. A valuation scheme sees a change in roughly one month in twelve, and a postcode district about one month in five — so the email will often tell you that nothing moved. That is the useful answer as often as not, and we would rather say it than pad it out. You can watch up to 3 areas, and unsubscribe in one click.