Introducing Perspective
With Perspective, managing your commercial property portfolio has never been easier. Upload your addresses once to access a single, intuitive dashboard where you can view, track, and analyse rateable values across all your sites in real time.
Drawing on live data from a variety of data sources, Perspective provides complete visibility and highlights potential opportunities to reduce your rateable values.
ABOUT US
Portrait are on a mission to change the business rates industry..and other sectors for good.
With a unique combination of deep local expertise and leading-edge technology, we provide you with market insights and advisory to best manage your business rates, continuity & much more.
Unlike others in the industry, Portrait do not charge an upfront fee to carry out a commercial or property assessment. Our systems and consultants will determine potential savings and present them to you upfront.
Our platform actively matches both national and local data sets to identify opportunities your company could be taking advantage of. Our approach is without pressure and our results speak for themselves, which is why we don’t need to charge upfront fees.
FAQs
Portrait works on a strict no win no fee basis, and we only bill 30% of any savings that have been achieved once the money hits our client’s account.
In the event where an additional survey is required to acquire neccessary information, we will arrange a site survey and follow this up with an additional analysis to identify the specific reliefs and grants that can be applied to your business. We do not charge our clients for these surveys.
If we successfully reduce your business rates bill, we’ll take a percentage of the savings as our fee. However, even if we don’t achieve savings, you’ll still benefit from a comprehensive expert review of your business rates assessment. This review will provide valuable insights into how the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has assessed your property and potential areas for future consideration at no cost.
Business rates are calculated based on the rateable value of your property. This is a valuation set by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA). The higher the rateable value, the more business rates you’ll pay.
Yes, you can appeal your business rates if you believe the rateable value is incorrect. You’ll need to submit an appeal to the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
Yes, there are several reliefs and exemptions available, including:
Small Business Rate Relief: This relief is available to businesses with a rateable value below a certain threshold.
Rural Rate Relief: This relief is available to businesses in rural areas.
Charity Relief: Charities may be exempt from business rates.
Retail, Hospitality, and Leisure Relief: This relief provides significant discounts on business rates for eligible businesses in the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors.
Empty Property Rate Relief: This relief can reduce or eliminate business rates on empty commercial properties.