Taylor Berlin Taylor Berlin RICS Regulated · Property Valuers
— RICS Regulated · Property Valuers

Property valuations
built on decades of experience.

Independent, RICS-regulated valuation advice for solicitors, accountants, investors and developers, across Greater London, the South East, and selectively further afield.

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Practice
Decades
Combined experience across residential and commercial mandates.
Coverage
London & the South East
Greater London and the South East. Commercial UK-wide on instruction.
Regulated
By the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Red Book Compliant
Reports prepared to RICS Global Standards.
PI Insured
Comprehensive professional indemnity cover.
Independent
No agency conflicts. Valuation only.
01 — Practice

Red Book valuations across every discipline, from probate and tax to expert witness, rent review and development.

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01

Rent Reviews & Lease Renewals

Representation in commercial rent reviews and Lease renewals, acting for landlord or tenant, from first analysis through to third-party determination.

Landlord & tenant
02

Probate & matrimonial

Defensible Red Book valuations for estate administration, financial remedy proceedings and family dispute resolution.

For solicitors & executors
03

Tax valuations

CGT, IHT and SDLT reporting prepared for professional reliance, with HMRC and District Valuer negotiation handled in-house where required.

CGT · IHT · SDLT
04

Expert witness

CPR Part 35 single joint expert and party-appointed reports, prepared to a standard that withstands scrutiny at tribunal and in court.

Litigation support
05

Commercial valuations

Office, retail, industrial and mixed-use. Single assets and portfolios, including Qualified Surveyor’s Reports for charity trustees. UK-wide on instruction.

Investment & owner-occupied
06

Residential valuations

Houses, flats, blocks and prime central London assets, for purchase, refinance or internal records.

Single-asset & portfolios
07

Lease extensions & enfranchisement

Premium valuations for leaseholders and freeholders under the Leasehold Reform Acts: statutory lease extensions and collective enfranchisement. Section 42 notices, marriage value and deferment-rate analysis, with tribunal evidence where the matter doesn’t settle.

LRHUDA 1993 · LRA 1967
08

Pension scheme valuations

Independent valuations for SIPP and SSAS schemes holding commercial property. Triennial reviews, acquisition appraisals and HMRC-compliant reporting.

SIPP · SSAS
09

Rating Appeals & Business Rates advice

Independent review of business rates assessments. Identify mis-described or over-rated hereditaments and pursue check & challenge through to settlement.

Rating advisory
10

Reinstatement cost assessment

Building reinstatement valuations for insurance purposes. Day-one rebuild cost prepared to BCIS data and RICS guidance, for under-insurance avoidance.

Insurance & rebuild
02 — Practice

A partnership. In every sense.

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— Residential, probate & expert witness

Elliot
Taylor

AssocRICS · Registered Valuer · Director, Taylor Berlin

Elliot has been valuing property across London for fifteen years, mostly for solicitors and accountants who need someone they can rely on when things get complicated. Running Taylor Surveyors, he’s built a practice around the kind of work that demands precision: probate, inheritance tax, leasehold enfranchisement, expert witness. Studying law before surveying probably explains why he enjoys the technical stuff more than most. Taylor Berlin came about because he kept working alongside James on instructions that were better handled together.

  • Probate & IHTLead
  • Leasehold enfranchisementLead
  • Expert witnessLead
— Commercial, rating & rent review

James
Berlin

Director, Taylor Berlin

James runs James Berlin & Associates and has spent twenty years in the commercial property world, mostly specialising in rent reviews, lease renewals and rating appeals. James has vast experience representing both landlords and tenants of retail, office, industrial and leisure properties during rent review/lease renewal negotiations as well as making representations at Arbitration/Independent Expert/Pact. In addition James has acted for occupiers dating back to the 2005 Rating List and has successfully agreed a vast number of reductions with the Valuation Office and at Valuation Tribunal ultimately saving clients a considerable amount of money. Commercial property value, in his hands, is something to be built, challenged and defended from the inside out. Taylor Berlin came about because the best instructions kept pulling him and Elliot into the same room anyway.

  • Rent reviewsLead
  • Lease renewalsLead
  • Rating appealsLead
03 — Method

How an instruction runs.

Typical turnaround · 5–10 working days
  1. Step 01

    Brief & engagement

    A short call to scope the asset, purpose of valuation and any litigation, tax or lender requirements. Terms of engagement issued the same day where possible.

  2. Step 02

    Inspection

    Internal and external inspection by a RICS-registered valuer, never delegated. Measured to RICS IPMS where instructed; otherwise GIA / NIA per purpose.

  3. Step 03

    Research & analysis

    Comparable evidence sourced from market transactions, our archive and registered plan data. Method per RICS Global Standards (VPS / VPGAs as relevant).

  4. Step 04

    Reporting

    A clear, defensible Red Book report. Delivered electronically with a partner-led debrief; hard copies on request. Post-issue support included.

04 — Recent work

Selected instructions.

2024–26 · selected
— Featured case study · Apr 2026

A rural estate.
Charities Act disposal, Kent Downs.

A 149-acre rural estate in the Kent Downs National Landscape, valued under the Charities Act 2011 ahead of a proposed disposal by trustees. Green Belt designation, public rights of way and an institutional planning use all bore on the analysis.

Instruction
Market Value · Charities Act 2011
Sector
Institutional / rural estate
Location
Kent Downs · National Landscape
Market Value
£4,500,000
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— Further recent work
Anonymised · 2024–25
Probate · Residential

Stucco-fronted villa, W11

Date-of-death valuation for a £14m freehold. Negotiated through to HMRC sign-off without challenge.

Audit · Portfolio

Six mixed-use freeholds

Combined £5.54m aggregate Market Value across six audit-year reports, North London and Luton.

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Tax · Residential

Detached home, LB Bromley

Dual-date Red Book report: retrospective April 2015 figure and current market value, prepared for CGT.

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05 — Fees

Fixed fees.
No surprises.

Instructions are quoted on a fixed-fee basis once we understand the brief. Send us the address and purpose; we’ll come back quickly with a written quotation and an indicative timetable.

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06 — Insights

Recent writing.

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Tax · 8 min read

The District Valuer’s eye: defending a probate figure.

Mar 2026 · E. Taylor
Commercial · 6 min read

Yields are moving. So is the evidence.

Feb 2026 · J. Berlin
Method · 5 min read

Why we still inspect every property ourselves.

Jan 2026 · The Practice
— 07 · For solicitors & accountants

A valuer your file can rely on.

Most of the practice’s work arrives by referral from solicitors and accountants. Partner-led, RICS-regulated, with DV negotiation handled in-house.

— Three things we don’t do. By policy.
  1. 01 Take referral fees.
  2. 02 Discount the methodology.
  3. 03 Work on a contingency.
How we work with referrers
— Begin an instruction

Send us the address.
We’ll handle the rest.

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