Rating Appeals

Rating Appeals
If our team of surveyors believe that your rates are too high, Hammer Properties will offer to act as your agent and will prepare and submit an appeal to take to the Valuation Office..

Hammer Properties offer to act on your behalf to:

  • Prepare and submit a ‘Proposal to alter the 2010 and 2015 Rating List’ if our survey department agree that there are reasonable grounds
  • Represent you, our client, in subsequent negotiations with the valuation Office.
  • If agreement cannot be reached, we will represent your interest at the Valuation Tribunal in order to seek a favourable settlement, if required.

Our Guarantee to you:

If in the opinion of our survey department, there are not reasonable grounds for appeal or if the Valuation Office does not acknowledge the appeal as valid.

Our Charges

  1. Our charges for the complete service total £500 plus VAT with only a £100 deposit to formulate and lodge the initial Appeal in order to ascertain a valid acknowledgement from the Valuation Office. Should the Appeal be returned by the Valuation Office as invalid, then the deposit will be returned in full. In event of the appeal coming back as valid the balance of £500 is payable.
  2. Following a successful appeal to reduce the Rateable value of your premises and Hammer Properties incentive to ensure as much physical refund as possible, of to make it a further of 25% + VAT of said reduction plus any overpayment refunded becomes payable (within three months of the date of the alteration of the rating list).

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