Council tax valuation 1991

[lyndseymc]

for council tax purposes I would like to know how much my property was worth in 1991. Where can I look?

[dzug]

Your council tax bill will give you a rough indication. The band it is in is what the valuation officer thought it was worth in 1991. There should be an explanation of the bands somewhere in the accompanying literature.

If you want it to be more accurate, or if you have doubts about the 1991 valuation, you need to identify a similar property in your area that changed hands in 1991. For a fee the Land Registry will tell you what it sold for. (More recent sales are free on line with eg http://www.ourproperty.co.uk/ but AFAIK nothing goes back as far as 1991)

Alternatively your local library probably has newspaper archives going back that far - do some browsing there in property sale ads - or at the local newspaper offices.

[buildersmate]

Dzug, as far as I know, the LR have only been recording property transfer prices since about 2002 - they date they started putting the info on the public record. Before that, they obviously knew because it is shown in the contract of sale document - but you can't ask for copies of these, I think?

[a_smith]

The official government web site for the Ctax property valuations in 1991 is;

http://www.voa.gov.uk/council_tax/cti_home.htm

This works by postcode and gives the corresponding band for Ctax payments.

Hope that helps

[dzug]

Buildersmate - the ourproperty website goes back to 2000 - don't know before then; I assumed they would be available offline but have never tried.