To ask if anyone has used The council Tax review service?

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I had a cold call about potentially being in the wrong council tax band for years. It's about putting in a claim to get it reduced as the guy seems to think we are in the wrong band.
After he went I went on line and he appears to be correct that every house on our block is a c band while we are D. Even the houses at the end of our row of 12 houses that are double fronted and bigger.
It was a no win no fee.
There was no pressure from him. He didn't ask for any personal details or money up front.
I am guessing, like the PPI, you can probably do it yourself. I know all I did with the ppi was to put a form in and I got over 10k back in weeks.
Anyone got any experience of this?
TIA

I have tried to do it myself and failed and I'm still bitter I pay more than my neighbours 🤣
If you have the time do it yourself Martin Lewis has a good bit on it on his website about it and where to start

If you decide to persue this with him he will take a cut of your rebate.
You can easily do it yourself with the valuation office ( but be aware that your property could be the only one banded correctly and all of your neighbours could face an increase)

Just contact the council valuation office. It was a very simple process - someone came round (pre-COVID) and it was lowered. We knew it was in the wrong band as all the other houses we viewed in the immediate area were in a lower band and a similar size.

If you decide to persue this with him he will take a cut of your rebate
He was up front about that.
He did say that other houses on the block had a reduction in the past and talked about a group putting forward a claim as that us more likely to win than an individual and you only get one shot at an appeal. I was too slow and should have asked why we weren't included on the last round of claims.
Part of me thinks if it is as easy as the ppi claim I may as well do it myself but then I think if uts more complicated I may as well let someone do it and get some reward because I'd be unexpectedly better off anyway if the banding gets changed.

I agree about looking on the Martin Lewis site for info. There is a good section on appealing council tax banding. Go from there, maybe ask your local CAB for help too?

I helped my PIL to appeal. Identical houses were in a lower band. The council refused the claim, Im still annoyed about it.

The only person I know who did this ended up getting the rest of the close raised to their band

Some of our neighbours did this.
It ended up that our house got put up a band rather than there's going down. Not that I'm bitter

Do it yourself. I found houses the same as ours in a different band. The valuation office tried to fob me off. I refused to back down. Then had a nice cheque for £3000 back.

It's really easy to do yourself. Have a look at your council website. You get back payments if they agree to change your banding. Ours was changed as ndn was on a lower band.