Spire

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Tell us about the property.

Assessment is open now, with first ratings expected in 2026. We reply to every enquiry ourselves.

How a rating happens

One rating cycle, four years

  1. 01

    Spire kick-off

    Scope is agreed, the sector benchmark for the asset is set, and the people who will answer each part of the assessment are identified before anything opens.

  2. 02

    Start assessment

    The property portal opens. The manager assigns tasks to the people who hold the answers.

  3. 03

    Submission period

    Data goes in at property level — from a phone, on a walkaround. Selective proof and satisfaction scores are added where they apply.

  4. 04

    Final submission

    The portal closes and the submission is fixed. Nothing further can be added to this cycle, which is what makes the resulting score comparable with everyone else’s.

  5. 05

    Start review

    Spire takes over. Every submission is checked against its proof before anything is scored, which is the step that separates a rating from a self-assessment.

  6. 06

    Review period

    Validation, then sector benchmarking, then the recommendations are constructed from where the property sits against its peers.

  7. 07

    Property report

    Twenty-five pages, produced for this asset: the rating, the pillars, the demand fit and what to act on.

  8. 08

    Spire Rated

    The mark and the score for the year go on the building, and the four-year cycle begins: monitoring in years two and three, a full re-rating in year four.

What is actually being answered

Indicators, broken into options you either have or you do not.

Three of the 40+ indicators, with some of their options. Tick and untick them to see how an indicator is built.

User Facilitating AmenitiesResidents
Asset indicator · RA2

User Facilitating Amenities

4 of 6 shown · 12 more options in this indicator

Stimulating Community EngagementResidents
Effort indicator · RE1

Stimulating Community Engagement

3 of 6 shown · 4 more options in this indicator

Community Facilitation AmenitiesCommunity
Asset indicator · CA2

Community Facilitation Amenities

3 of 6 shown · 4 more options in this indicator

The property portal

The assessment is the easy part.

Every rating framework asks for data. The reason most of them stall is that one person ends up chasing every answer. The portal exists so that never happens.

Assign, do not chase
The property manager opens the assessment and assigns each part to whoever holds that answer. Progress is visible without anyone having to ask.
Answer where you are
Data goes in from a phone during a walkaround, not from a spreadsheet afterwards. What you can see, you can answer.
Proof only where it counts
Selective proof is requested for the indicators that carry weight, rather than documentation for its own sake.
It reopens, it does not restart
In later years the portal reopens with your answers already in it. You update what changed instead of starting again.

Who fills it in

  • Property manager

    Opens the assessment and assigns each part to whoever holds that answer. Sees progress without having to chase it.

  • On-site team

    Answers what it owns — amenities, programming, service, staff conditions — from a phone during a walkaround.

  • Operator or corporate oversight

    Reviews before submission and watches progress across every asset in the portfolio from one place.

A first full assessment is hours spread across the submission window, not a project that needs its own team.

The Spire property portal open on a tablet.

After the first rating

One rating cycle, four years

Years two and three fork. If nothing has changed at the property the benchmark is rerun without a new submission, so you can see where the same asset now sits as the sector moves. If something has changed, the portal reopens and the rating is updated.

  1. Year 1

    The full assessment

    1. Kick-off
    2. Submission period
    3. Review period
    4. Property report
    5. Property Rated

  2. Years 2–3

    Depends on whether anything changed

    No change at the property

    1. No submission
    2. Rerun benchmark
    3. Hypothetical new benchmark
    4. Property report
    5. No rating update

    Change at the property

    1. Portal reopens
    2. Update assessment
    3. Review period
    4. Property report
    5. Property Rated

  3. Year 4

    Full re-rating

    1. Portal reopens
    2. Update assessment
    3. Review period
    4. Property report
    5. Property Rated
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