Data source
Valuation Office Agency: Council tax valuation list
The council tax band of every domestic property in England and Wales, as declared on the VOA list.
- Licence:
- Crown copyright
- Coverage:
- England and Wales
- Tools:
- 4
Role
What Valuation Office Agency data lets a tool answer
The one attribute a buyer, lender and letting agent all ask for, and the one the model never guesses: a band is read from the list or reported as not found, never predicted. The bill itself is not held; each billing authority sets its own charge.
Terms
Licence, attribution and refresh
- Licence
- Crown copyright. Published by the VOA; reused here as the declared band per property.
- Refresh
- Refreshed by postcode on a rolling basis; the list itself changes as the VOA processes appeals and new builds.
- Coverage
- England and Wales
This page describes how MarketCode uses the data. It is not legal advice on how you may reuse what a tool returns; the tool pages say when a response carries licensed records.
Tools
Tools that read Valuation Office Agency records
Council tax band
council_tax_band()VOA council tax band for a property, from the official list.
Full property record
property_lookup()Full property record for a UPRN, grouped into tiers: identity, property,
Property summary
property_summary()One-call summary of a property: what it is, what building it belongs to,
Derived
Models and indices built on it
These tools do not return Valuation Office Agency rows; they return a MarketCode model or index computed from them. The methodology page explains each.
Reconcile a property across sources
property_reconcile()Cross-source feature reconciliation for a UPRN — surfaces divergence
Related
Sources it is joined with
- HM Land Registry: Commercial and Corporate Ownership (CCOD) and Overseas Companies Ownership (OCOD)
- Ordnance Survey: AddressBase
- Ordnance Survey: National Geographic Database (buildings, land and sites)
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Energy Performance Certificates (domestic and non-domestic)
FAQ
Questions about Valuation Office Agency data
What Valuation Office Agency data does MarketCode use?
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The council tax band of every domestic property in England and Wales, as declared on the VOA list. The one attribute a buyer, lender and letting agent all ask for, and the one the model never guesses: a band is read from the list or reported as not found, never predicted. The bill itself is not held; each billing authority sets its own charge.
Which tools read Council tax valuation list?
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4 tools: Council tax band, Reconcile a property across sources, Full property record, Property summary. Each is available as an MCP tool and a REST endpoint at the same price.
Under what licence?
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Crown copyright. Published by the VOA; reused here as the declared band per property. This page describes how we use the data; it is not legal advice on how you may.
How often is it refreshed, and what does it cover?
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Refreshed by postcode on a rolling basis; the list itself changes as the VOA processes appeals and new builds. Coverage: England and Wales.
Is there a council tax band API?
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Yes, in effect: the MarketCode tools that read Valuation Office Agency are the council tax band API most people are looking for, reachable over REST with an API key or over MCP from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor with a sign-in.
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