Our Facilities Management team deliver a service that ensures legal and statutory compliance on all occupied and vacant properties within our managed portfolio. We do this by having strong processes and systems in place and by embracing Proptech to assist us in our day to day duties.

We have a dedicated Property Management Accounts team who have over 40 years of experience processing financial transactions, client reporting and the RICS service charge process across a wide variety of clients and buildings.

Our goal is to deliver an exceptional service to meet our clients’ requirements on all of our managed assets. We do this by having strong processes and systems in place and by embracing Proptech to assist us in our day to day duties. We specialise in transitioning in assets and portfolios and making sure all assets are ‘sale ready’ at all times.

Commercial property throughout the U.K is subject to Business Rates which is a tax on occupation and paid by the occupier. However, when a commercial property becomes vacant this tax still exists in the form of Empty Property Rates. The liability for this would then be enforced on the owner of the premises.

Since the first revaluation (in its present form) in 1990, appealing a Business Rates Assessment was a straightforward process. A short, standardised form with minimal information was submitted either on line or by post to the valuation office.

The Business Rates appeals system for the 2023 Rating List is managed through a Government Gateway Registration.  There are three steps to the procedure known as Check, Challenge and Appeal.

These three stages can be summarised as follows: