Lessee told to pay £30k 'debt'
03-May-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A Hampshire lessee owes his pubco more than £30,000 after being lumped with the debts of licensees who had the lease assigned to them. Roger Young...
Martin Roslyn, chairman, Pub Accounting Company
03-May-2007
What you would need to consider is the pubco's situation on the unit. They obviously feel that £45k is the optimum rent for the unit - although this...
ALMR calls for common sense over rent rises
26-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has called on landlords to cut its members some slack when it comes to rent reviews. Addressing...
Legal advice: Who is responsible for your repairs?
23-Apr-2007
Ongoing repairs to pubs can clearly represent a significant cost to the party responsible for them - with a subsequent impact on the bottom line. It...
London Town chief exec wants honesty
20-Apr-2007 By The PMA Team
London Town determined to become a "tenant-centred" pub company
London Town: tenants first
19-Apr-2007 By The PMA Team
London Town, the Aim-listed commercial property business than now owns 225 tenanted pubs, is determined to become a "tenant-centred" pub company,...
Holt's switches more pubs to tenancies
05-Apr-2007
Manchester brewer and pub operator Joseph Holt is switching more managed houses to tenancy following a review of its 131-strong pub estate. The...
LETTERs
22-Feb-2007
Beware a certain pubco My wife and I recently passed on the lease of our pub free of charge because nobody was willing to buy it, keeping in mind the...
Back to basics: finance for first-timers
21-Feb-2007
Why do publicans fail? Very often it's because they just don't have enough information about how their business is doing. They see the cash coming...
Clean-up your act for business sake
08-Feb-2007
The recent claim by an incoming lessee that his new business was ruined by publicity over a previous prosecution for hygiene offences is only the tip...
Epub: no frills EPoS is here
15-Jan-2007
Punch transfer tenants taking over former Spirit managed houses have been rejecting the pub's existing EPoS for a new, cheaper 'no frills' system -...
Smartbox went under owing £1.5m
14-Dec-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Hundreds of hard-up licensees owed money by Smart-box will not receive a penny after it was revealed the controversial screen media company went...
Changing the house rules
16-Nov-2006
Leasehold and tenanted pubs are by far the most dominant players in the trade and their hold on the market is strengthening. Tony Halstead reports...
Licensees warned over lease reassignments
09-Nov-2006
Licensees have been warned to take full legal advice when reassigning their leases. More lessees have contacted The Publican, concerned that they...
The only pubs in the village
09-Nov-2006
The only two pubs in a Devon village are up for sale. Both the Red Lion and the Ferry Boat Inn at Dittisham are on the market through agent...
RENTWATCH
12-Oct-2006
Bristolian Angela Enwright is a Pubfolio tenant, whose pub is managed by County Estate Management. Her pub, the Hop Pole in Avondale Road, takes...
05-Oct-2006
London & Edinburgh Swallow Group's collapse has been a nightmare for licensees caught up in the demise of this deeply flawed operation. But our...
How do I take on pubco over 67% rent rise?
05-Oct-2006
I have run a country pub in a village for nearly four years on a fully-tied lease with a pubco. I paid £75,000 for the 25-year lease and the rent...
Fortune, then LESG took a huge tumble
28-Sep-2006
A few more words on the demise of London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) seem appropriate. This is, after all, the most worrying collapse since...
London & Edinburgh licensees need support
21-Sep-2006
London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (L&ES) licensees have slammed the company for failing to help them as it slid into administration. The...
Pub letting firm faces 'strike off'
14-Sep-2006
Companies House records show a proposal to strike off Kingsley Knight, the pub letting firm set up by pub operating company Provence. Bury-based...
Preparation is key
07-Sep-2006
. Get ready for market Before putting your lease on the market, check it for any obligations or constraints it places upon you in order to assign...
Family wins case against Punch
31-Aug-2006
A couple whose dreams of running a pub were shattered when they were forced out with stress and ill health, have won a court case against...
RENTWATCH
31-Aug-2006
A Punch licensee has run up £10,000 worth of debt inside three months of taking on a run-down pub in Pool, Cornwall. Dianne Thompson paid £56,000...
24-Aug-2006
Two Lincolnshire lessees who have reversed the fortunes of their pub, have decided to sell up. James and Jo Cartwright at the Tally Ho Inn, Aswarby,...
04-Aug-2006 By The PMA Team
Provence, the pub operator that sells freeholds at auction with a lease to itself, has decided to stop expanding its tenanted estate. The company,...
Legal advice: Prepare to repair
26-Jun-2006
If you are a tenant whose lease is coming to an end you are fairly certain to receive a notice from your landlord a few months before the lease...
Ex-Provence tenants pursued over 'debts'
22-Jun-2006 By Ewan Turney
Provence, the company that sells pub freeholds at auction with a lease back to itself, is pursuing a a number of former tenants over alleged debt....
09-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
Another company is following the Provence business model and is trying to sell pub freeholds to private investors for large profits by offering a...
Publicans sign up to net gains
31-May-2006
Effective communication between landlords and tenants is at the heart of a successful pub industry. Behind that lies the relationship between the...
Lease Query
07-Apr-2006
I paid £12000 to help out a "friend" who wanted to take over the Greyhound pub in early 2005. I decided to go on the lease myself as well in...
Barracuda to review CCTV policy following hat furore
10-Mar-2006
Pub chain Barracuda Group is to review its policy on hat-wearing in its CCTV pubs, after an 82-year-old woman was told to remove her hat while...
Tynemill switches pubs to tenancies
16-Feb-2006
Award-winning cask-ale specialist Tynemill is now operating seven of its pubs as tenancies, the Morning Advertiser has learned. Tynemill, founded...
07-Feb-2006
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a Gloucestershire licensee. South African Jacqui Bisset, 30, was found dead in the upstairs flat at...
Provence tenants can hand keys back: Kiely
17-Nov-2005
Company will allow forfeiture of any pub lease within 28 days by The PMA Team Pub-owning company Provence has told its licensees that they can hand...
BBPA code to ease the
06-Oct-2005
strain of pub disputes by Tony Halstead Clearer guidelines governing the rocky relationship between pub owners and their tenants are set to be...
A happy breed?
21-Sep-2005
Big changes in the industry over the past thirty years and a new kind of relationship between landlord and tenant have produced a different type of...
Punch rent hike goes to tribunal
15-Sep-2005 By Ewan Turney
A couple who feel they are being penalised for their own success are having their case heard at a rent tribunal in Reading County Court following...
52 SFI sites on sale will fail to raise £2m tops
08-Sep-2005
by The PMA Team A group of 52 former SFI Group sites being sold by administrator Pricewaterhouse Coopers is likely to raise no more than £2m and...
Hardys confident food will ease smoking ban
02-Jun-2005
by The PMA Team Nottingham-based brewer and retailer Hardys & Hansons has unveiled a 4.4% rise in like-for-like sales for its 79-strong managed...
The licensees letter to Greene King
26-May-2005
Dear EditorWe have been instructed by a group of about 100 Greene King tenants and lessees regarding the pricing activities of their landlord, Greene...
Peter Shalson
26-May-2005
owner, Pubfolio (new) Clive Rayden managing director, County Estates Management (new entry) Peter Shalson's company Pubfolio is expanding at a rate...
Tenants and lessees of regional brewers across the country w
19-May-2005
However, cheering's one thing; banking on the 90-odd Greene King licensees having any luck with their legal challenge on this pricing disparity is...
Legal advice: Selling a leasehold
06-May-2005
Do you know the factors to be considered when selling a leasehold pub?By Keith Miller of thePublican.com's team of legal experts from London...
Dreams dashed
16-Mar-2005
Michelle Perrett warns against rogue recruiters exploiting potential licensees.To a person wanting to get into the pub trade their ideal may be to...
Negotiate rent with smoke ban in mind says property expert
08-Mar-2005
Licensees need to start negotiating their rents to take into account the likelihood of a smoking ban, says a leading property specialist. Howard Day,...
What companies told the pubco inquiry:
03-Mar-2005
The pubcos have married monopoly of supply and its attendant price iniquities to a system of leases and rent reviews which are disadvantageous to the...
Recouping closure losses
24-Feb-2005
QWhen we took over this lease, the premises was in a bad state in certain parts and despite numerous requests, the brewery did nothing. All of a...
Martin O'Neill has simply represented the pubcos'
06-Jan-2005
I predicted after the first stage of the verbal evidence that the Trade & Industry Select Committee inquiry into pubco power would come to...
Landlords must open books for fairer rents'
09-Dec-2004
The rent review process is heavily weighted against the pubco tenant, argues ALEX SALUSSOLIA, chairman of the Association of Licensed Multiple...
