Aibu to ask your house price and council tax cost. (Disparity between areas)

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£250,000. £3263

RIP off.

Wow, you aren’t kidding. £950k, Southwark, £1692.

£600kish
£2304

It’s a ridiculous tax.

when did you buy OP?

£330000, £2500

Part of the disparity is residential vs business rates. Westminster is low because they have tons of businesses paying bus rates. So residential council tax can be lower. Not because other areas are subsidising council tax there.

Maybe £980,000 ( we rent it) Bath £2985

£132,000… £1953. South Wales

£650k, £2,088
Havering

£400,000 and £3060 but it’s about to go to massively because Somerset council is going bankrupt.

£106k, £1313 - Manchester

That house price was 9 or 10 years ago, though - would probably be closer to £200k now as the area has got much more popular.

Wow OP that's really high.

£1.2m - £2508 - East London

£250,000 and £1600. You’re being ripped off OP.

OP that is a serious rip off.

£1m £3,912

Thames Valley

£300,000, Band C £1800 in wilts

£400k, £2780, S Wales.

Is it based on house price or house value though? We bought over a decade ago for £380k. Next door bought last year for £810k. Our houses are the same number of bedrooms, same size, layout, similar state of repair/decor etc so ours would be worth approx the same but obviously very different purchase values. Fwiw council tax is just under £3k per year. Yours sounds like a lot!

500k, just over 2k

£600k ish £3910 south east

Might not have bought! Renters also pay CT.. ridiculous tax

Approx value £200,000
council tax band B
£1510
suffollk

Worth roughly 240k
£1845

@AhNowTed blimey that mentally high- where is this?

SE London.
Latest valuation: £650,000
CT: £1,712 (before the 25% discount)

They’re based on the property’s assumed value as at 1 April 1991 for England, and 2003 for Wales. Not sure about Scotland or NI. If your house was built after that, it’s based on what a property like yours would have been worth then. Mad.

£350k Band E. £2238