Business Rates

Business Rates often needn’t be payable on empty property. CBRE have a specialist team specifically focussed on Empty Rates. Our experts will guide clients through this complex area of Rating, removing the administrative aspect and deploying strategies to maximise savings.

All of our specialist Empty Rates services are provided in-house, part of your one stop shop solution, with no third parties involved.

Rates Management

Our Rates Management service removes the administrative task of rate demand verification and payment across any portfolio. Our team are there to ensure that only the correct liabilities are paid, and any applicable reliefs and exemptions are applied.

Deletion Appeals

Where a property is subject to a programme of works, an appeal to delete the rating assessment may be appropriate. CBRE are experts in this field and have set legal precedent in court on behalf of our clients and the wider industry.

Completion Notices

Where these are received in respect of property subject to recent or ongoing works, they may result in premature assessment of the space. Our team have extensive experience in this niche area of rating and challenge these notices where appropriate.

Empty Rates Mitigation

We offer a range of solutions to mitigate ongoing Empty Rates costs. Our in-house solution matches our own space requirements with our client’s vacant property. Alternatively, we are able to source charitable occupiers, short-term occupiers, or even long-term tenants through the wider CBRE business.

Rates Audit

Using proprietary CBRE technology, we are able to carry out a review of historic and current properties to ensure clients have been correctly charged for business rates. Where our system identifies an error, we recover those sums on the client’s behalf.

Rateable Value Appeals

We are experts in advising if there are grounds to challenge your rateable value and guide you through the complex appeal procedures introduced for the 2017 & 2023 rating list. Our access to CBRE's significant bank of rental data allows us to achieve market leading results for our clients.

Business rates are one of your biggest business expenses. CBRE’s dedicated team of sector specialists can help to manage and remove the administrative burden of dealing with Business Rates whilst maximising savings.

Check, Challenge, and Appeal (England), Appeals (Scotland, NI and Wales)

Advising if there are grounds to challenge your rateable value and guide you through the complex appeal procedures introduced for the 2017 & 2023 rating list.

Empty Rates Mitigation

We offer a range of solutions to mitigate ongoing Empty Rates costs. Our in-house solution matches our own space requirements with our client’s vacant property. Alternatively, we are able to source charitable occupiers, short-term occupiers, or even long-term tenants through the wider CBRE business.

Development, Completion Notices and Refurbishment Vacant Space

If you have vacated or redeveloped your property in part or in entirety, we will work to minimise or remove the rates liability.

Disturbance Refunds

If a nearby development is impacting your business, we can help you apply for rates relief and lodge appeals citing a material change of circumstances.

Rates Management

We provide a full service for the payment and management of your rates for large or small portfolios together with all the necessary rating advice and supporting financial data and reporting.

Forecasting for Budgets

We can help you to budget by forecasting potential increases and possible refunds.

Rates Audit

Using proprietary CBRE technology, we carry out a review of historic and current properties to ensure clients have been correctly charged for business rates. Where our system identifies an error, we recover those sums on the client’s behalf.