Property price premium
The Observer
|October 19, 2025
The owners of Buckingham Palace, which is valued at around £1bn and sits in council tax band H, paid £1,828 in 2023-24 to the City of Westminster council.
The owners of 18 Buckingham Drive, a two-bedroom, semidetached house in Middlesbrough, which is in council tax band C, paid £2,210.
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