Portrait checks your business rates, surface water drainage charges and insurance data against precise measurement of your buildings. When the records are wrong, we correct them, challenge the charge and recover what you have overpaid.
Floor areas and volumes captured by LiDAR to RICS measurement standards.
Rateable values and classifications compared line by line with the official record.
Each challenge or correction is submitted with the measured data behind it.
Qualifying reviews carry no upfront cost. The fee follows the saving, on signed terms.
The evidence we produce serves whoever carries the property cost, from a single premises to a national portfolio.
Reliable measured data for design, planning and cost control on live schemes.
Space, safety and compliance information for the buildings you actually run.
The same sequence applies whether the subject is a rates bill, a drainage charge or an insurance schedule. Nothing is claimed that has not first been measured.
A Portrait surveyor captures your property with LiDAR. The output is a measured record of floor areas, heights and volumes aligned to RICS standards, and it underpins every later step.
Your charges rest on data held by the VOA, the water company and your insurer. We set each record against the survey and list every discrepancy in plain terms, with its likely cost.
Where a record is wrong we take it up with the body that holds it: a rates check and challenge, a billing dispute, a mid-term adjustment. You approve the case before anything is submitted.
Successful challenges produce backdated refunds, reduced ongoing charges and accurate cover. The measured data and every document from the case stay available to you in Landscape.
Rateable value and classification checked against the measured property, then challenged where the record is wrong.
Drainage billing audited against actual impermeable area. Overcharges reclaimed and backdated.
Declared values and policy data corrected mid-term, so premiums reflect the building you occupy.
LiDAR surveys, point clouds and measured building packs produced to RICS standards by quotation.
The full service line in one place, including digital deliverable packs quoted per property.
Two products built around the same idea: decisions about property costs should sit on measured, traceable data.
The secure client portal for measured building evidence. Scans, point clouds, digital twins and case documents in one workspace, viewable in the browser and shareable under your control.
Business rates research built on VOA data, comparable evidence and scheme analytics. Screen one property or a whole portfolio for grounds to reduce, before a case is ever opened.
Accountants, agents and advisers refer clients whose property costs deserve a check. We run the case and report back; you are paid for the introduction.
Organisations responsible for many buildings partner with Portrait for estate-wide measured evidence, reduction reviews and portfolio visibility in Landscape.
Rateable values, drainage tariffs and insurance schedules behave differently by property type. We work in the detail of each.
A first assessment is free and commits you to nothing. Send a recent rates bill, drainage invoice or policy schedule and we will tell you, in writing, whether it is worth challenging.
