Industry took the hardest revaluation of the four VOA sectors, with the typical assessment up 19.1%. Within Other, assembly and leisure — which is where pubs sit — moved 17.5%. Retail moved least of the three commercial sectors. Shops is the one sub-sector with pages of its own beneath it — follow it for Zone A rates street by street.
Every sector at the 2026 revaluation
These are the Valuation Office’s own eighteen sub-sectors, in the order the site uses everywhere else — by properties held, not alphabetically. The sector column matters: the VOA reuses names across groups, so “Offices” and “Other - Offices” are different classifications rather than a duplication. Every code behind each row is listed on the SCat categories page.
| Sub-sector | Sector | SCat codes | Assessments | Median RV | Typical change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shops | Retail | 24 | 502,826 | £10,750 | +11.6% |
| Offices | Offices | 2 | 337,281 | £10,000 | +14.3% |
| General Industrial | Industry | 12 | 418,026 | £13,250 | +19.6% |
| Assembly and Leisure | Other | 99 | 200,236 | £12,000 | +17.5% |
| Other - Other | Other | 54 | 144,311 | £1,675 | +12.5% |
| Industry - Storage & Distribution | Industry | 11 | 129,223 | £4,400 | +17.4% |
| Hotels, Guest & Boarding, Self Catering etc | Other | 12 | 103,001 | £3,500 | +22.4% |
| Other - Retail | Other | 20 | 34,089 | £15,750 | +11% |
| Health | Other | 4 | 26,768 | £18,000 | +13% |
| Education | Other | 9 | 40,102 | £50,000 | +13.7% |
| Industry - Other | Industry | 83 | 17,122 | £18,000 | +17.3% |
| Non Residential Institutions | Other | 2 | 13,427 | £10,500 | +15.5% |
| Financial & Professional Services | Retail | 1 | 6,955 | £25,250 | +9.3% |
| Other - Offices | Other | 7 | 2,845 | £35,000 | +11.8% |
| Transport | Other | 11 | 1,514 | £32,250 | +13.8% |
| Other - Storage & Distribution | Other | 5 | 645 | £152,000 | +15.2% |
| Utilities | Other | 22 | 64,788 | £7,100 | +6.1% |
| Residential Institutions | Other | 3 | 388 | £111,000 | +17.5% |
Sectors with pages of their own
Shops are the first we have taken further, because they are the only sector the Valuation Office values by zoning — and the Zone A rate applied to each shopping street is published but readable nowhere in plain English.
Shops, by shopping pitch
Zone A rates street by street, for 31 local authorities so far. Retail › Shops.
Other sectors are not published yet. If there is one you need, tell us which and we will look at it next.
Where these figures come from
The Valuation Office publishes the full rating list for England and Wales. These figures are calculated from the 2026 compiled list and the 2023 list it replaced, with assessments matched on postcode, building number and street; where one address carries several assessments the match is ambiguous, so those are excluded. Sectors follow the VOA’s own grouping from its Stock of Properties release.