House sold prices in 1991
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Gareth79 said:
I wonder if any local long-established estate agents will have their own archives they might be able to search? Obviously they will want some £££, but it will surely save many hours.
That's a good shout. I know a couple of our local independent agents were around back then - I might just stick my head in the door and ask the question.paulrockliffe said:
Don't you just need house sold prices now and then convert them back into 1991 money?
If only it was that simple..The VOA will only accept property valuations from 1991 when asked to re-assess a council tax banding. It's beyond frustrating that the VOA appears to hold the information they are asking us to supply, but they choose not to divulge it.
SS2. said:
paulrockliffe said:
Don't you just need house sold prices now and then convert them back into 1991 money?
If only it was that simple..The VOA will only accept property valuations from 1991 when asked to re-assess a council tax banding. It's beyond frustrating that the VOA appears to hold the information they are asking us to supply, but they choose not to divulge it.
Any use (near the bottom)
WinstonWolf said:
SS2. said:
paulrockliffe said:
Don't you just need house sold prices now and then convert them back into 1991 money?
If only it was that simple..The VOA will only accept property valuations from 1991 when asked to re-assess a council tax banding. It's beyond frustrating that the VOA appears to hold the information they are asking us to supply, but they choose not to divulge it.
Any use (near the bottom)
The VOA is insistent that, despite being provided with a large data set of neighbouring house sale prices at the time and since we purchased ours, they will not consider an appeal unless we can provide confirmation of the house prices in 1991.
They know that if they give in now, it'll cost them a lot - we moved into our current place in 2003, and it's currently in the highest band for CT.
I did ask on here back in May but forgot to update.
I’d messaged a local estate agent who said something along the lines of ‘it’d be a bit of a ballache’ and I didn’t bother trying to see if I could have mine lowered
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
I do need to get into the local library to check out the prices though. In that thread there is a picture of when houses did dip.
I’d messaged a local estate agent who said something along the lines of ‘it’d be a bit of a ballache’ and I didn’t bother trying to see if I could have mine lowered
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
I do need to get into the local library to check out the prices though. In that thread there is a picture of when houses did dip.
Megaflow said:
Have you looked at Nationwide’s house price calculator? My dad successfully argued his council tax valuation with that.
Likewise, in 2015, as we're on a road of limited properties, very few sales, we did this for our neighbour whom it transpired was in a much higher band than us, despite a smaller house in 2015 after 1991 - 2005 improvements to both properties. We had to back up the Nationwide trend with "a comparable list of properties within two miles", (not ours, the sale prices and improvements for ours 1991, 1996, 2003, 2006 would have really given the game away, fortunately it didn't seem to affect NWides numbers) which as it turned out there was an almost picture identical one right on the boundary of the two miles. I think the VAO did state though that whilst they'd give our neighbour a rebate they thought there had been some work done to increase the value of the property (we bought a ransom strip of the neighbour in 2009 for a piddling sum, less than a grand, done to make each others deeds administration easier, not for profit on either party) so the discount only applies to the neighbour, a "holding note (can't remember exact term") means CT will revert to current level on sale.
I'm dreading revaluation if there is any in the future. Our house is 3 times bigger than it was in 1991, when it was little more than a log store, didn't even have an internal toilet.........had to get up at four in morning to lick road clean with tongue and all we had to eat we're a left over poll tax bill for the 72 of us living there..........
Mr Pointy said:
I don't suppose an FOI request would get anywhere with the VOA?
Bearing in mind their utter intransigence thus far, I very much doubt that would get us anywhere.Megaflow said:
Have you looked at Nationwide’s house price calculator? My dad successfully argued his council tax valuation with that.
We did try that, and it was immediately rejected by the VOA. I guess your dad was fortunate, or may have been dealing with a more sympathetic drone at the VOA.They've told us what 'proof' we need to supply. They themselves have access to this 'proof', but they won't divulge it.
SS2. said:
Mr Pointy said:
I don't suppose an FOI request would get anywhere with the VOA?
Bearing in mind their utter intransigence thus far, I very much doubt that would get us anywhere.Megaflow said:
Have you looked at Nationwide’s house price calculator? My dad successfully argued his council tax valuation with that.
We did try that, and it was immediately rejected by the VOA. I guess your dad was fortunate, or may have been dealing with a more sympathetic drone at the VOA.They've told us what 'proof' we need to supply. They themselves have access to this 'proof', but they won't divulge it.
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