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Install
RatingEdge units are fitted in commercial premises in under ten minutes. No structural work, no specialist contractor, no certification process — and once a unit is in place, nothing about it needs a further visit.
Occupation that is actually happening, and the record to show it.
RatingEdge places working apparatus in commercial property between occupiers. It monitors the asset, markets the premises from within it, and produces data with a value of its own — and every part of that activity is recorded continuously, in a form built to be reviewed.
How RatingEdge works
Three steps. No specialist contractors. No paperwork bottlenecks.
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Monitor
A live dashboard tracks Beneficial Occupation continuously. The platform maintains a complete, time-stamped record of every event without manual input or operator intervention.
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Evidence
Audit-ready records are available on demand for any property and any period. Every claim is backed by continuous, verifiable activity data.
What the apparatus is doing there
Occupation is not a status a property is granted. It is something that has to actually be happening. So the question worth answering is a simple one: what is the equipment doing in the building, and why would anyone want it there anyway?
It monitors the asset. It reports the building's condition — heat, damp and condensation — and watches for the things that shouldn't happen in an unattended property: movement, a light left on, a sound at night, water, smoke, a power failure. And it can be looked at. Commercial property between occupiers goes unattended for months at a time, and its occupier finds out about a burst pipe, or a winter of condensation, when someone finally opens the door.
It markets the property from within it. The apparatus broadcasts availability to passing devices and routes them to the Movehut.co.uk listing, so interest becomes an enquiry without anyone having to notice a board.
And it produces data with a value beyond the building it came from. The record the apparatus generates is worth something to parties who never set foot in the property. Occupiers may elect to realise that value, and receive the proceeds.
Each of those is ordinary commercial activity the occupier would pursue on its own merits. Together they are what the apparatus is for.
Why RatingEdge is built the way it is
Built for the standard that applies now, not the one that applied before.
Beneficial Occupation, not staged occupation
RatingEdge documents real activity in real properties. No paper-only arrangements. No token visits. No fabricated occupation.
Methodology designed to be reviewed
Our approach is documented and applied the same way across every property and every council area. It is built to be read by someone looking for a reason to reject it.
Complete evidence trail, automatically maintained
From the moment a unit goes live, the platform maintains a continuous, time-stamped record. No manual logging. No retrospective reconstruction. No gaps.
Built on the most comprehensive UK rating dataset
Every commercial property in England and Wales, fully integrated. Postcode resolution and rateable value tracking are handled automatically.
For property companies, asset managers and advisors
RatingEdge is designed for in-house teams and professional advisors who want evidence-grade tooling without outsourcing their strategy — and without handing over control of their client relationships.
Property companies
Manage every unit across multiple councils from a single dashboard, with continuous evidence maintained automatically for every property.
Asset managers
Quantify and document occupation consistently across every property under management, to a standard built to be reviewed.
Professional advisors acting for clients
Run your whole book on one platform while keeping your client relationships your own. Your client list is yours alone.
Your clients are yours. We are built so we cannot see them.
If you act for clients, who they are and which properties belong to them is the core of your business — not something to hand over to a platform provider. RatingEdge is designed so that your client identities and the link between your clients and their properties are encrypted under a key that only you hold. Our staff see only what is needed to run the rating engine; we cannot browse, export, or data-mine your client book.
- You hold the key. Your client data is unlocked only when you log in, using a key derived from your own credentials. We never hold it and cannot recover it on your behalf — by design.
- You control access. Restrict sign-in to the locations you choose, managed entirely by you.
- You verify, you don't take our word for it. A complete, tamper-resistant access log is available for you to inspect at any time.
We believe in being straight about what this means. The rating engine must read property data to do its job, so we don't claim it is technically impossible for us to ever see a property. What we do guarantee is that we cannot see whose clients they are, or which properties map to which client — and that you can verify that for yourself. Control and transparency, not a promise to be taken on trust.
Methodology and transparency
RatingEdge operates on a deliberate principle: the record should be strong enough that nobody has to take our word for anything.
In City of London v 48th Street Holdings and Principled Offsite Logistics [2026] EWCA Civ 970, the Court of Appeal held that an arrangement whose only purpose was to obtain the relief did not amount to occupation at all. The inquiry is no longer limited to projected savings. What the occupier actually does at the property, and what it obtains from doing so, is now the question — and it is answered with contemporaneous records, not with descriptions written afterwards.
Our platform was built for a different premise. We do not stage occupation, and we do not rely on token interventions. The apparatus does real work — it monitors the asset, markets it, and generates saleable data — and the record of it is available in a form designed to be reviewed.
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