How do I know if I’m paying the correct business rates? Is my rent and/or lease that I’m paying my landlord fair and reasonable? How do I challenge my rent or lease without adversely affecting the relationship that I have with my landlord? These are just a few of the questions that a business is faced with. You must also receive many cold calls from call centres promising to reduce your business rates.
You can be confident that through our expert RICS accredited partner, we are able to offer the following commercial property-related services and be straight and honest with you.
Our service is aimed at both Landlords and Tenants and covers all Commercial Lease and Transactional issues.
Our express aim is not only to ensure the best rent agreements are reached for our clients. Our focus is also on securing favourable lease terms, with particular consideration for the relationship between the parties, ensuring that we secure the best long term results.
We are experts in providing advice in relation to:
We have extensive knowledge of the local property markets and how individual buildings fit into those markets. Further, we fully understand the importance of applying this local knowledge, while accounting for differing lease terms and relevant Landlord & Tenant legislation and Case Law, in securing the very best results for clients.
With our in-depth know-how, our expert team is able to provide solutions and strategies for Landlords and Tenants alike, to ensure that your property assets work to your business’s best advantage, in the short and longer-term.
GET IN TOUCHIf you are paying Business Rates, our expert team can ensure that your rating liabilities are minimised and maintained at their lowest possible levels.
We have a proven track record, with over 25 years’ experience, advising both occupiers and property owners in the reduction and minimisation of their business rates liabilities.
Our in-depth knowledge of the rating system, including legislation and case law, has enabled us to successfully minimise clients’ tax liabilities across a diverse range of properties. The Rating Advice we provide to clients covers the main classes of, offices, warehouses, factories and shops as well as more specialist property types, including public houses, restaurants and hotels, car showrooms, car parks, marinas, ferry terminals and golf clubs.
GET IN TOUCHOur specialist Empty Rates service is aimed at property owners. We work closely with our owner clients, putting together bespoke strategies to Minimise Rates, focussing on the specifics of each development or building and the circumstances. Our advice includes, where appropriate, considering the possibility of being able to Delete, or Zero Rate, an Assessment, Deferring bring an Assessment into the Rating List, Rates Mitigation strategies and reducing the level of Rating Assessments.
On a predominantly performance related fee basis, we provide a friendly and professional specialist Business Rates service, ensuring our clients’ Tax Liabilities are minimised.
GET IN TOUCHWe consciously work closely with clients to ensure the very best bespoke advice and long term outcomes. The main areas of consideration for our occupier clients tend to be the level of their Business Rates Assessments and the Tax Liabilities attached to these. Our advice is not however simply Rating Appeal focussed. Instead we actively manage strategies for clients, with a continual review of our clients’ situations, changes to their properties and factors impacting their buildings and any Rates Reliefs which may become relevant. Legislation relating to available Rates Relief is continually changing and we ensure we are at the forefront of this, to ensure our clients’ interests are always best protected.
For more information on any of the above services, contact MGC on 01273 917 948.
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A national recruitment company with 12 branches who had already chosen MGC to provide a Hosted VoIP telephone solution for them, asked MGC to help them with their energy procurement.
An existing energy and telecoms’ client who runs two retail shops asked MGC to review his merchant card services’ account which was coming up for renewal.