Wondering if anyone has had any experience with challenging the council tax band their property is in? We discovered our band is one higher than our immediate neighbours when their house went on the market and I had a nosy at the details which initially listed (in error) the band being 3 bands lower.
Their house has an additional bedroom and en-suite to ours. That took me down a rabbit hole of looking at other bandings and there are many houses that look to be the same size or bigger at one or two bands lower. The issue is finding out more details of these houses like square footage or number of bedrooms when many haven’t been on the market recently.
I’m unsure exactly how much evidence you’d need to provide to be successful. I’m motivated enough to knock on doors to ask people about their property but I’m not sure what reaction I’d get! This is purely to get our tax lowered in line with what is considered reasonable for these other properties, not to try and get theirs increased.
Any knowledge and advice would be gratefully received!
Their house has an additional bedroom and en-suite to ours. That took me down a rabbit hole of looking at other bandings and there are many houses that look to be the same size or bigger at one or two bands lower. The issue is finding out more details of these houses like square footage or number of bedrooms when many haven’t been on the market recently.
I’m unsure exactly how much evidence you’d need to provide to be successful. I’m motivated enough to knock on doors to ask people about their property but I’m not sure what reaction I’d get! This is purely to get our tax lowered in line with what is considered reasonable for these other properties, not to try and get theirs increased.
Any knowledge and advice would be gratefully received!