Insights Home / Property / Insights FilterSortDate(Asc)Date(Desc)Business unit Business rates Commercial Agency Executive Team Lease Consultancy for Investors Lease Consultancy for OccupiersClear selectionApply filtersInsights37 Pubs A Month ‘Vanished’ In 2020business-rates January 11, 2021InsightsProperty Taxes Topped £90bn Last Year – Highest In Developed Worldbusiness-rates December 8, 2020InsightsOwners Of Second Homes In England Entitled To Another £85 Million In Government Grantsbusiness-rates November 30, 2020InsightsSpending Review 2020 – Business Rates Updatebusiness-rates November 26, 2020Insights70,000 London Shops, Pubs, Restaurants & Hotels Face £3bn Rates Billbusiness-rates November 23, 2020InsightsRedundancy Payments Topping £1.3 Million A DAYbusiness-rates November 12, 2020InsightsSeptember’s CPI Rate Signals Business Rates Rises Of £160 Million In England Next Aprilbusiness-rates October 21, 2020InsightsUp to 1,809 Greater Manchester Pubs Ordered To Close – 1 in 10 English Pubs Now Mandated To Closebusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers October 20, 2020InsightsThe Government’s initiatives on energy efficiency and climate change are now at complete odds with the property tax system writes Robert Haytonbusiness-rates October 6, 2020Insights12 Million Square Metres Of Retail Space Set To Gobusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers rates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersrent-reviews-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsrates-appealsSeptember 29, 2020InsightsCurfew For 1 in 10 English Pubsbusiness-rates rates-appealsrates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersrent-reviews-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsSeptember 21, 2020InsightsWhat comes next cannot be business as normal in April writes Robert Hayton.business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers rates-appealsrates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersrent-reviews-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsSeptember 18, 2020Insights40 Pubs a Month Demolished or Converted to Other Usesbusiness-rates rates-appealsrates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersrent-reviews-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsSeptember 15, 2020InsightsCoronavirus Drives Redundancy Payments By 121% Fuelled By Retail Failuresbusiness-rates rates-appealsrates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersrent-reviews-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsSeptember 14, 2020InsightsFurther Covid-19 Grants in England by Reference to Rateable Valuebusiness-rates rates-appealsrates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersrent-reviews-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsSeptember 10, 2020InsightsCouncils To Return Over £1 Billion In Unspent Coronavirus Supportbusiness-rates rates-appealsrates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersrent-reviews-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsSeptember 7, 2020InsightsAviation Sector Bring ‘Group Action’ Against Tax Authoritiesbusiness-rates rent-reviews-for-occupiersrates-appealsrates-reliefrates-auditempty-rateslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsSeptember 3, 2020InsightsOffices are hugely important, but the current ratio of commercial/economic gain to occupational costs is now unfavourable writes Robert Hayton business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers empty-ratesrates-appealsrates-auditrates-reliefrent-reviews-for-occupierslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsAugust 13, 2020InsightsCoronavirus Drives Tax Disputes – Appeals Up 690%business-rates empty-ratesrates-appealsrates-auditrates-reliefrent-reviews-for-occupierslease-renewals-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-occupiersreal-estate-advice-for-occupierslease-regearing-for-investorslease-renewals-for-investorsrent-reviews-for-investorsreal-estate-advice-for-investorsproperty-valuationsAugust 6, 2020InsightsA revaluation reflecting the post Covid-19 economy must be the right thing to do – Alex Probynbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers August 3, 2020InsightsIt’s time to be optimistic with meaningful reform now within our grasp, writes Robert Hayton.business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers July 22, 2020InsightsBailiffs Resume Enforcement Against Business To “Help Recovery Effort”business-rates July 15, 2020InsightsComment: The Summer Statementbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers July 9, 2020InsightsAmerican & Russian Embassies Among Those Racking Up Tax Debts In The Capital business-rates July 6, 2020InsightsAltus Group, officially the UK’s largest business rates agent.business-rates July 3, 2020InsightsAltus Group Secures Vail Williams Lead Business Rates Partnerbusiness-rates July 3, 2020InsightsPubs ‘Vanishing’ Stabilise Ahead Of Reopeningbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers June 29, 2020InsightsIt is now time for the Chancellor to acknowledge the important role that the commercial property sector is being asked to play in the recovery.business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers June 24, 2020InsightsWales Postpones 2021 Revaluationbusiness-rates June 4, 2020InsightsExclusive: Heathrow & Gatwick Airports Top Property Tax List Despite Uncertainty Over Air Travelbusiness-rates May 25, 2020InsightsBreaking: Retailers To Receive £430 MILLION Of Tax Rebatesbusiness-rates May 20, 2020InsightsBusiness Rates Revaluation POSTPONED business-rates May 6, 2020Insights355,000 Firms Receive £10 Billion Property Tax Breakbusiness-rates May 6, 2020InsightsLegislation Government is trying to pass will require pubs to pay business rates from next April based on FMT a year prior to Covid-19business-rates April 29, 2020InsightsRetailers call on Sunak to ‘Bin the Bill’business-rates April 27, 2020InsightsTribunal finds for industrial Landlord in Altus Group’s Empty Rates victorybusiness-rates April 23, 2020InsightsEnglish Second Home Owners Set To Receive £550 Million In Government Grantsbusiness-rates April 20, 2020Insights3,650 small firms set to miss out on £55MILLION of Government fundingbusiness-rates April 6, 2020InsightsNow is the time for the Chancellor to acknowledge the important role that the commercial property sector plays in the UK economy, writes Robert Hayton business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers April 2, 2020InsightsSettle All Outstanding Tax Appeals Before It’s Too Late Chancellor Toldbusiness-rates March 30, 2020InsightsAltus Group Joins #UnitedWeStand Advisory Boardbusiness-rates March 25, 2020InsightsValuation Tribunal Shuts Up Shop Temporarilybusiness-rates March 20, 2020InsightsAn important message from Altus Group in response to the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus)business-rates March 18, 2020InsightsBusiness Rates & The Budgetbusiness-rates March 11, 2020InsightsShops on struggling High Streets to be denied a further £100 million in tax reductions as 18,000 jobs lost.business-rates March 9, 2020InsightsBusiness Rates Appeal System Fell Short Of Expectations Review Findsbusiness-rates March 2, 2020A long-awaited review by HM Revenue and Customs into business rate appeals in England has upheld criticism of the new system saying it “fell short of expectations” and “lessons need to be learned”. The findings come at a time when retailers blame the tax for the growing number of high street closures with The Centre […]InsightsAltus Group secures Senior Valuation Officer Mike Dunlevey as Client Adviserbusiness-rates February 25, 2020InsightsCost of insolvencies at the highest level since 2012, driven by High Street failures business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers February 24, 2020InsightsPlans To Stop £430 MILLION Of Tax Refunds For Retailers On Budget Daybusiness-rates February 3, 2020InsightsProperty Bosses Put Their Faith In 5G As Britain’s Retail Jobs Crisis Deepensbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers January 27, 2020InsightsFormer Premier League Clubs Lose High Court Rates Appealbusiness-rates December 23, 2019InsightsBritain Regains Top Spot For Highest Property Taxes With Total Tax Take Surpassing £700 Billion For The First Timebusiness-rates December 6, 2019InsightsLabour Guarantee “Fair & Transparent” Appeal Process As Outstanding Business Rate Challenges Up 35%business-rates December 3, 2019InsightsLarge Retailers Shutter 6,000 Shops In 9 Monthsbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers November 21, 2019InsightsSeptember’s inflation signals a £536 MILLION Rates Hikebusiness-rates October 16, 2019InsightsWhat business needs in a tax system is certainty, accuracy and fairness – Opinion – Robert Hayton.business-rates October 14, 2019InsightsHammond’s Budget Enough To Help Just 11 Thomas Cook Shopsbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers October 4, 2019InsightsCouncils Send Bailiffs To 310 Premises EVERY DAY Over Business Ratesbusiness-rates September 23, 2019InsightsAlex Probyn. Opinion: Government Agency must keep their end of the bargain when it comes to Business Rates Appeals.business-rates September 17, 2019InsightsRobert Hayton. Opinion: Action needed by Government to alleviate the negative impact of business rates on investmentbusiness-rates September 4, 2019InsightsGovernment policy DENIED Bolton Wanderers a £1.3 Million tax cut on it’s stadiumbusiness-rates September 3, 2019InsightsBusiness rates bills could rise £662 MILLION next year as Chancellor urged to make historybusiness-rates September 2, 2019Insights100,000 Firms Seek A Business Rates CUT As Appeals Increasebusiness-rates August 23, 2019InsightsAltus Group Announces Raft of UK Promotionsbusiness-rates August 20, 2019InsightsGovernment Consider Plans To Stop Businesses Appealing Their Rates Bills business-rates August 12, 2019InsightsCouncils Sue 750 Firms A DAY Over Business Rate Arrearsbusiness-rates August 5, 2019InsightsPubs Calling Time During First 6 Months Of 2019 Halvesbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers July 22, 2019InsightsTrial Date Set For NHS £2.35 Billion Town Hall Tax Battlebusiness-rates July 8, 2019Insights20,000 Shops Gone & 43,000 Emptybusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers July 2, 2019InsightsThoughts by Robert Hayton – Upper Tribunal supports call for nil RV on substantial refurbishmentbusiness-rates June 26, 2019InsightsExclusive: Spurs Top The Tax Tablebusiness-rates June 17, 2019InsightsStrip Out Works Ahead Of Refurbishment Don’t Go Beyond Monk, Rules Upper Tribunalbusiness-rates June 12, 2019InsightsGovernment Policy DENIES British Steel A £5m Tax Cutbusiness-rates June 10, 2019Insights5 Altus Group Surveyors have successfully completed their APC to become MRICS Chartered Surveyorsbusiness-rates June 7, 2019InsightsSupreme Court Rules Embattled Retail Sector Must Wait For £400 Million Tax Rebatesbusiness-rates May 29, 2019InsightsMajor Shopping Centres Dominate Areas Of High Taxation Costs Outside London Despite Falling Valuesbusiness-rates May 20, 2019Insights70 Firms A DAY See A Business Rates CUT Through Successful Property Tax Appealsbusiness-rates May 17, 2019InsightsCall For Tax Parity For Council Run Schoolsbusiness-rates April 29, 2019InsightsWill Rent Reductions Under CVAs Reduce Rates Liabilities?lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers April 26, 2019InsightsExclusive: 76 Pubs A Month Called Time Last Yearbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers April 22, 2019InsightsHigh Street Shops, Pubs & Restaurants Get £500m Tax Reprieve Today – It’s No April Fools’business-rates April 1, 2019InsightsExclusive: Fears Mount Over High Street Tax Cutsbusiness-rates March 20, 2019InsightsCouncils Demand £47m More In Tax For ATMs Despite Court of Appeal Saying They Are NOT Liablebusiness-rates March 11, 2019InsightsExclusive: Digital Services Tax To Be Extended To Include 2% ‘Amazon Tax’business-rates March 9, 2019InsightsInternational Womens Day 2019 – A spotlight on just a few of the talented team of women surveyors in Altus Group UK.March 8, 2019Insights150 Firms A DAY Appeal Their Business Ratesbusiness-rates March 1, 2019InsightsCost Of Insolvencies Rise By 31% During 2018, The Highest Level In 5 Years, Driven By The High Street Crisisbusiness-rates February 25, 2019Insights400 Jobs A DAY Lost Or Threatened On UK High Streets Since Christmas Daybusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers February 11, 2019InsightsNEW INQUIRY: Treasury Committee launches new inquiry into impact of Business Rates on businessbusiness-rates February 1, 2019InsightsEU Likely To Say No To ‘Amazon Tax’ To Save British High Streets Warn Treasurybusiness-rates January 25, 2019InsightsHMV ‘Denied’ A £3.35 MILLION Tax Lifeline Before Administrationbusiness-rates January 8, 2019InsightsNightmare on High Street: 150,000 Jobs Lost in 2018business-rates January 2, 2019Insights10,000 jobs lost at Restaurants in 2018, with more pain to come.business-rates December 28, 2018InsightsForeign Embassies Rack Up £1.5 MILLION Business Rates Debtbusiness-rates December 18, 2018Insights£1 in every £8 raised in taxes comes from Property. The highest level in the EU.business-rates December 10, 2018InsightsRetailers Wait Goes On For £382 Million “Tax On Cash” Rebates As Government Agency Petitions Supreme Courtbusiness-rates December 6, 2018InsightsBusiness Rates Budget Measuresbusiness-rates December 4, 2018InsightsCourt Of Appeal To Deliver “Tax On Cash” Judgement On Fridaybusiness-rates November 8, 2018InsightsPost Budget Rates Boost As “Staircase Tax” Formally Axed Todaybusiness-rates November 1, 2018InsightsBudget 2018: 1 in 7 Pubs Face Business Rate Rises of £5,000 Next Aprilbusiness-rates November 1, 2018InsightsEU Rules Preclude Major Retail Employers From Hammond’s Rates Discount Planbusiness-rates November 1, 2018InsightsBusiness Rates: 2018 Budget Updatebusiness-rates October 31, 2018InsightsBudget 2018. What does it mean for UK business and the high street?business-rates October 30, 2018InsightsBudget 2018: Treasury Considering A £300 Million Stimulus For Ailing Town Centresbusiness-rates October 24, 2018InsightsToday’s Inflation Signals A £728 Million Business Rates Hike Next Aprilbusiness-rates October 17, 2018InsightsEU Rules Prevent Government Aid Getting To 1 in 4 Pubsbusiness-rates October 15, 2018InsightsCapital London has let 18,060 sq ft of offices at The Manhattan Building in Crawley Business Quarter to workplace pension provider B&CE.commercial-agency October 9, 2018InsightsCut Property Taxes Not Corporation Tax For A Low Tax Economy, May Toldbusiness-rates September 28, 2018InsightsAltus Group appointed by Aviva Investors as Overarching Agents on South London Industrial Portfoliocommercial-agency September 20, 2018InsightsCouncils send Bailiffs To 222 Business Premises EVERY DAY Over Ratesbusiness-rates August 28, 2018InsightsShropshire Pub First to Win Rates Appeal under new Regulationsbusiness-rates August 6, 2018InsightsAs Temperatures Rise, so does the Popularity of the Traditional Beach Hutbusiness-rates July 30, 2018Insights1,300 Pubs Called “Time” in the Last Yearbusiness-rates July 23, 2018InsightsThe Changing Face Of Our Communities As Shops, Pubs, Libraries and Police Stations “Disappear”business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers July 16, 2018InsightsCouncils Haul Nearly 200,000 Firms Before The Courts Over Rate Arrearsbusiness-rates July 6, 2018InsightsPoundworld ‘denied’ a £4.1 MILLION tax lifeline before its administrationbusiness-rates June 21, 2018InsightsWith plans for a government high street review set to be announced, councils could do more and cut business rates writes Robert Hayton.business-rates June 12, 2018InsightsEmbrace the new business rates appeal system, it could be a change for the better writes Alex Probyn.business-rates June 8, 2018InsightsCheck. Challenge. Appeal. – Quarterly Statisticsbusiness-rates May 31, 2018InsightsRetailers Head to Court of Appeal today over “Tax on Cash” Disputebusiness-rates May 23, 2018InsightsHouse of Fraser’s £120 Million Rates Liabilitiesbusiness-rates May 4, 2018InsightsPenalty for Successful Football Clubs from 2017 Business Rates risesbusiness-rates May 2, 2018InsightsNHS Hospitals Start High Court Bid For A £300 Million A Year Tax Cutbusiness-rates April 12, 2018InsightsLondon West End Business Rates Burden Continuesbusiness-rates April 10, 2018InsightsNew Tax Year for Rates startsbusiness-rates April 1, 2018InsightsWales urged to Sign up to Staircase Tax Repeal Billbusiness-rates March 30, 2018InsightsLarge Stores Vulnerable to Declining Marketsbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers March 20, 2018InsightsSpring Statement 2018business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers March 13, 2018InsightsIceland’s Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Could Save Hundreds of Millions in Property Taxesbusiness-rates March 8, 2018InsightsBusiness Rates Triple-Whammy Compounds Threat to UK Car Plantsbusiness-rates March 6, 2018InsightsNearly 100,000 London Business Properties Face Inflation Busting Tax Rises Next Monthbusiness-rates March 2, 2018Insights“We’ll Continue to Tax your Staircases” Welsh Firms Toldbusiness-rates February 22, 2018InsightsMixed Fortunes for Winter Olympic Training Facilities under Tax Shake Upbusiness-rates February 11, 2018Insights6 Shops A DAY ‘Vanish’ from High Street during the last 7 yearsbusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers February 2, 2018InsightsPub Closures Easing but 2 A Day ‘Vanish’ Since Last April’s Tax Shake Upbusiness-rates January 12, 2018InsightsBritain cements its position as the country with the highest property taxes passing £80 billion for the first timebusiness-rates January 11, 2018InsightsBailiff Instructions to Collect Rates Tax Soars 9% since Revaluationbusiness-rates January 8, 2018InsightsProperty Tax Bills Sent to Firms Confirming £845Million Rates Hikebusiness-rates January 7, 2018InsightsAltus Group Comment; Check Challenge Appeal statistics. December 2017business-rates December 7, 2017InsightsAutumn Budget 2017business-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers November 22, 2017InsightsAltus Group Challenges Ministerial Hints of a Shorter Revaluation Cyclebusiness-rates September 18, 2017InsightsThe Price of Modesty, Tea & Shelter on the Beach Climbs fors Summer 2017business-rates August 27, 2017InsightsBusiness Rates in Hospitality & Tourism – Time to Reform the Appeal Process?business-rates July 1, 2017InsightsQueen’s Speech Should Use Consensus to Achieve a Functional Business Rates Systembusiness-rates June 19, 2017InsightsBusiness Rates: Manifesto Proposals for Reformbusiness-rates May 19, 2017InsightsTransparency needed for understanding Hospital Business Ratesbusiness-rates May 3, 2017InsightsInvestment in Dealerships can Increase Business Rates Liabilitiesbusiness-rates April 28, 2017InsightsAltus Group comment; Check. Challenge. Appeal.business-rates April 23, 2017InsightsValuation Officers Failing to Apply Supreme Court Ruling on Redevelopment Worksbusiness-rates April 13, 2017InsightsPublication of the Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 on 17 March 2017business-rates March 22, 2017InsightsFOI Request Shows 250,000 Business Rate Appeals Being Held at a Rate of 3 per daybusiness-rates March 20, 2017InsightsSpring Budget 2017: An Opportunity to Address Unfairness in the Business Rates Systembusiness-rates March 8, 2017InsightsSupreme Court Encorages Investment in UK Propertybusiness-rates commercial-agency lease-consultancy-for-investors lease-consultancy-for-occupiers March 1, 2017InsightsBusiness Rates Revaluation Disappointment Imminent in Economically Disadvantaged Areasbusiness-rates February 17, 2017InsightsCheck. Challenge. 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