Dear Brunella,
Without having found any further information about your flat, I might have found something that explains why there is nothing on the VOA website. (Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Italian tax to find it on Agenzie delle Entrate ... :-)
Here's the possible explanation I've found for lack of info:
"We publish lists of the rateable values of all business and non-domestic properties in England and Wales."
source:
http://www.2010.voa.gov.uk/rli/static/HelpPages/English/faqs/faq008-cant_see_my_property_in_search_results.html
"New College Court in Camden NW3 comprises 20 homes. Out of these properties, all are residential. This means there is no commercial property in New College Court."
source: http://www.mouseprice.com/property-information/ref-17551845/13-New-College-Court
Apologies if this does not tell you anything new!
Kind regards,
Knut Maseide
Assistant Cataloguer
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, The Library
Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DT
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Subject: Re: Conveyancing and VOA rates - printed sources
Dear all
I noticed nobody answered this message. Trying to put the question in other words: I am completing the collection of information supposed to serve a conveyancing process for personal reasons. To assess the possible rateable value of the flat where I have been living since April 2009 I have tried to find the data from VOA site, then from http://www.2010.voa.gov.uk/rli/en/basic/find/select - Service "Find my property valuation".
Unfortunately with whatever combination of search strings, including words from the address (that is 7 New College Court, Finchley Road, by the way) I always obtained the response:
"Sorry, but we can't find any matches for NW3 5EX. Please change your search terms and try again"
That sounds quite odd because I am sure that there are at least one or two businesses in the building.
Whatever clue you could give me that may help me in sorting out the puzzle will be very much appreciated. Having reported the situation of my flat for other reasons to the National Fraud Hotline - and publicised the fact via Twitter - you may understand the importance of this type of information not only for assessing the value of a property but to understand the whole framework / context in which the information is needed.
To be more specific about the excellent database at http://www.2010.voa.gov.uk: it shows there are some possible comparable data, provided for other confinant postcodes such as NW3 5EP or NW3 5ES - but being these postcodes related to office spaces mixed with restaurants, petrol stations and surgeries, I am not sure that it makes any sense at all to take them into account as comparable values for a conveyance (also because they may be very old, I have never seen surgeries in the confinant buildings actually, unless the denomination is used also for massages, nails, cosmetics and betting shops). And above all there is the evidence that no data is provided for my actual address (that in the meantime, coincidentally?!?, seems disappeared from the italian database of Agenzia delle Entrate as well!).
Kind Regards
Brunella Longo
Information Management Adviser, Project Manager Prince2 Practitioner, Independent Scholar
7 New College Court
London NW3 5EX
T +44 (0)20 72095014 - 77229184 / +44 (0) 75 49921488 (mobile) http://www.brunellalongo.info (http://www.brunellalongo.it)
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