Investor and Developer Business Rates

Ryan’s business rates services deliver comprehensive solutions designed to maximise the performance of your investments. Acting as a proactive property tax partner, we create tailored strategies to manage current and future business rates liabilities. This enables you to focus on asset performance and enhancing portfolio returns without unexpected financial surprises.

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Business Rates Advice

For more than 30 years, Ryan has supported landlords and tenants by reviewing and challenging rateable values, securing exemptions and relief, and providing guidance for vacant or underutilised properties.  

Business rates can present significant challenges for property investors and developers. A single tenant departure or an ill-timed completion notice can heavily impact portfolio performance. With recent compliance changes, managing these liabilities has become even more critical.

Ryan partners with some of the UK’s largest commercial property investors and developers to strategically reduce and manage business rates liabilities.

Ryan’s Investor and Developer Services

We offer a tailored suite of business rates services to help you maximise returns and mitigate risk.

Liability Reduction

  • Optimise business rates liabilities for new developments.
  • Maximise exemptions and reliefs on existing assets.
  • Secure reductions through the proven “check, challenge, appeal” process.
  • Reduce liability for vacant properties through short-term lettings and appeals.
  • Access real-time portfolio monitoring via Ryan’s online client portal.

Financial Planning and Analysis

  • Deliver forecasting and budgeting reports.
  • Conduct pre-acquisition due diligence reports for risk and savings analysis.
  • Provide accrual management reporting.
  • Offer case updates and board-level insights to aid strategic decision-making.

Administrative Support

  • Simplify bill processing and authorisation.
  • Ensure accurate accruals and timely payments.
  • Conduct detailed audits to resolve discrepancies and recover refunds.

Compliance Management

  • Oversee duty-to-notify requirements upon implementation.
  • Handle annual return filings and Rent and Lease Data (RALD) submissions.
  • Manage all interactions with the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).

Why Choose Ryan?

Seamless Integration

Seamless Integration

Ryan integrates seamlessly with clients’ operations, fostering long-term relationships that go beyond transactional. We ensure a smooth onboarding process and efficient account management to make working with us effortless.

Leverage Market Intelligence

Leverage Market Intelligence

Our unique access to critical market data and extensive expertise allows us to uncover savings and opportunities with greater speed and accuracy than other agents. We currently represent more than 40,000 occupiers and investors across the UK.

Regulated and Accredited

Regulated and Accredited

Ryan operates under the highest professional standards, certified by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV).

Commitment to Data Protection

Commitment to Data Protection

We uphold rigorous IT security protocols to protect client information, maintaining confidentiality and ensuring data integrity in every operation.

Agency and Lease Consultancy

Uncover Missed Opportunities

Through a complimentary health check, we identify unrealised savings opportunities, investigate unexplained assessments, and boost overall savings while improving accuracy.

Ryan's Business Rates Services

Ryan combines cutting-edge technology with unmatched market expertise to deliver comprehensive business rates solutions tailored to your specific property and portfolio needs.

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Investor and Developer Business Rates
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Integrated Tax Services

Equipping the modern tax function to be best-positioned to meet the needs of an ever-changing regulatory and geopolitical landscape, Ryan helps clients improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the people, processes, and systems that drive overall tax performance. Assessing the tax operations, benchmarking the current state, and creating a powerful business case for transformation help our clients build their tax functions into best-practice operations aligned to deliver on the company’s key priorities.