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What the rating lists say about business rates in England and Wales

We analyse every rateable property in England and Wales 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.

Indicative saving a year£465macross all flagged properties
Flagged1 in 10business properties in England and Wales
Properties flagged203,888of 2,001,732 analysed
Median claim£707a year, per flagged property
Detail of the flagged properties map: local authorities across the Midlands, shaded by the share of business properties flagged318 local authorities

The overpayment map

Where business properties are most likely to be flagged, council by council, across England and Wales. 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, Challenges and Tribunal Decisions

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.

£18,293,775 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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