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Office rates per square metre by authority

Offices are valued on net internal area at a rate per square metre — not on frontage, the way shops are. That rate is published for every office in the country but readable nowhere in plain English. These pages read it, authority by authority.

“Offices” here is the VOA’s own sector, covering SCat 203 (offices including computer centres) and 204 (headquarters and institutional offices). Every code is listed on the SCat categories page.

Choose an authority to see its office rates street by street — which pitch carries which rate per square metre, and how wide the range runs on each.

Office rateable values by billing authority: offices, median rateable value, median £ per m² and pitches
AuthorityOfficesMedian RVMedian £/m²Pitches
Barnet1,465£13,500£23035
Bath & North East Somerset1,104£11,250£19528
Birmingham7,190£8,900£140167
Blackburn with Darwen1,307£4,600£7830
Bolton1,612£7,600£12436
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole889£9,700£16023
Bradford3,013£6,000£8582
Brent1,173£10,500£21032
Brighton & Hove1,987£13,750£22053
Bristol3,030£15,000£21091
Bromley996£12,875£20521
Cambridge1,099£23,750£30526
Camden5,833£51,000£565144
Cardiff3,299£9,300£13083
City of London7,131£87,500£500159
Cotswold902£7,900£13925
Coventry1,483£9,800£11535
Croydon981£15,500£18029
Derby1,456£8,500£10039
Doncaster1,358£7,200£11032
Dudley1,508£5,700£9640
Ealing1,060£13,000£23024
Enfield690£11,250£20018
Exeter1,214£12,500£14527
Hackney3,355£28,250£42579
Hammersmith & Fulham1,919£32,500£43047
Haringey786£9,200£17618
Harrow1,096£13,250£22027
Hillingdon1,775£17,500£23046
Hull1,287£7,000£8034
Ipswich1,029£9,500£10428
Islington4,215£38,000£394100
Kensington & Chelsea2,050£33,250£53548
Lambeth1,265£27,250£33635
Leeds6,885£10,750£130193
Leicester1,725£8,400£9042
Lewisham456£13,125£1947
Lincoln672£9,600£11017
Liverpool3,444£10,000£13577
Luton742£11,000£13522
Manchester7,233£13,750£200173
Milton Keynes2,450£10,750£20052
Newcastle upon Tyne3,229£9,000£13684
Newham926£13,000£19823
Newport846£5,600£12324
Northampton908£11,500£11817
Norwich1,483£8,300£13045
Nottingham2,149£9,800£11560
Oldham1,169£5,600£11325
Oxford1,189£11,250£25025
Plymouth1,217£8,200£10535
Portsmouth776£10,500£14519
Redbridge686£12,000£20017
Rochdale925£5,100£11033
Rotherham1,034£6,400£9029
Salford2,057£9,500£14248
Sheffield3,094£9,400£12090
Southampton1,171£10,750£16031
Southwark3,117£37,750£39366
Stockport2,038£7,900£12555
Stoke-on-Trent1,166£6,300£9531
Sunderland1,263£6,800£10534
Swansea1,711£5,700£9445
Telford & Wrekin813£7,900£10520
Tower Hamlets4,319£15,250£27392
Wakefield1,629£8,200£11040
Walsall900£5,100£8722
Waltham Forest682£7,200£20018
Wandsworth1,409£17,500£28944
Warrington1,598£10,250£13136
Westminster13,725£66,000£735291
Wigan1,304£6,200£11835
Wolverhampton1,465£5,900£10533
York1,223£11,750£15036

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