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What the rating list says about English business rates

We analyse every rateable property in England against its comparablesA similar nearby property used as evidence for what your Rateable Value should be. Good comparables share your property's type, size band and location., then publish what we find. Free to read, free to quote, methodology in the open.

Reclaimable a year£961macross all flagged properties
Overpaying1 in 10English business properties
Properties flagged180,978of 1,894,057 analysed
Typical reclaim£1,322a year, median authority
Detail of the overpayment map: English local authorities across the Midlands, shaded by the share of business properties worth checking296 local authorities

The overpayment map

Where businesses are most likely over-assessed, authority by authority. Deeper colour means a larger share worth checking. Full ranked table and a free CSV.

One-off analysis · updated at each list changeOpen the map

Monthly VOA changes

Rateable values the VOA altered, by sector and by authority, plus how many Checks and Challenges are being filed where. Before and after, for the properties the VOA amended each month.

Refreshed monthly, one month in arrearsSee this month’s data

Checks and Challenges

Every formal case that has altered the 2026 rating list, property by property, with the floor area and rateable value before and after. A Check corrects the facts; a Challenge argues the valuation.

£12,938,625 of rateable value removed, netOpen the registers

2026 Data Analysis

How the revaluation actually moved rateable values — the median of the individual property changes, matched to each assessment’s own entry on the 2023 list, by sector and by authority.

One-off analysis · both compiled listsSee the analysis

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