About Altus Group
Altus Group Limited is a leading provider of software, data solutions and independent advisory services to the global commercial real estate industry. Our businesses, Altus Analytics and Altus Expert Services, reflect decades of experience, a range of expertise, and technologyenabled capabilities. Our solutions empower clients to analyse, gain insight and recognise value on their real estate investments. Headquartered in Canada, we have approximately 2,250 employees around the world, with operations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Altus Group advises on property taxation in the UK, Canada and the United States and has the largest rating team in the UK with 400 dedicated employees, including over 120 specialist Surveyors, across a network of regional offices. Altus Group represents over 55,000 clients, from SMEs to many of the world’s leading corporations, with over £5 billion of Rateable Value under instruction. Altus Group handles more business rates appeals than any other commercial real estate firm in the UK, working across all main property sectors including office, industrial and retail, offering sector specific expertise through specialist teams. The scale of Altus Group’s rating advisory business in the UK generates the volume of quality data required to evidence the value of clients’ properties and challenge assessments made by the Valuation Office Agency at Revaluation. With a combination of scale, expertise and a continuing policy of selective challenge, Altus Group has achieved a success rate of 86% under the UK’s business rates appeal system of Check Challenge Appeal, introduced in April 2017.
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The voice of business As Britain’s leading and largest rating advisory, Altus Group is at the forefront of the business rates debate and we lobby, on behalf of our clients, for positive and meaningful change to the business rates system. Featured more than 2,000 times during 2019 across print, on-line and broadcast media, Altus Group remains the go-to experts for business rates analysis, forecasting and commentary encompassing all sectors of the economy.
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Altus Group has always provided an invaluable and timely level of insight and data on business rates. Altus is extremely knowledgeable and responsive, and I always contact them with the utmost confidence that they will respond quickly with the information that I’m seeking. Dominic Curran, Property Policy Adviser, British Retail Consortium
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ABOUT ALTUS GROUP
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