19-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is offering a new lease agreement that means licensees earn a £150-a-barrel discount if they exceed barrelage targets. It's part of...
15-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has written to the Business and Enterprise Committee to clarify its position on the beer tie.
ALMR urges flexibility over beer tie
15-Jan-2009 By James Wilmore
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has been forced to clarify its position on the beer tie following controversial evidence given...
'Women barred from pub for being 'too old''
03-Dec-2008
A group of woman were barred from a city centre pub after door staff decided they were "too old". The 15-strong group, a mixture of middle-aged women...
Enterprise licensee to speak at pubco power inquiry
06-Nov-2008 By James Wilmore
A Enterprise Inns lessee and anti-pubco group Fair Pint will be among the first to speak to MPs when a long-awaited review of pubco power starts...
S&NPE reports 50 per cent rise in lease applications
04-Nov-2008
A pubco has reported a 50 per cent leap in the number of lease applications it receives, despite worsening economic conditions.Scottish &...
EPCs: lessees must pay, not pubco
23-Oct-2008 By James Wilmore
Lessees looking to sell their pub are being reminded they have to pay for an energy performance certificate (EPC) - not their pubco. Since October 1,...
Working through the tough times
21-Oct-2008
How tough are you finding the market conditions right now?Of course they are challenging. But it's funny if you compare it to 1991 and 1992. I was...
London Town reopening 38 pubs
09-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
London Town, which has an estate of 205 tenanted pubs and 61 managed pubs, has reopened 30 closed pubs this year — and has eight more it will...
08-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
A multiple Enterprise lessee is to end his 10-day hunger strike in protest against "exorbitant" rents and "steep" beer prices at 6pm this evening — the pubco maintains it has offered every support possible.
01-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
A multiple Enterprise lessee has gone on hunger strike in protest against "exorbitant" rents but the pubco says it has done everything it can to help.
10-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
A city analyst believes that 20-30% of Enterprise and Punch leased pubs may be "uneconomic" because the licensees are making under £20,000 a year...
22-Aug-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Bids for Cains Beer Company are due to be lodged with administrators Pricewaterhouse Coopers today.
24-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
Over half of the 47 lease opportunities placed on the market at the end of April on behalf of Marston's Pub Company have been successfully let by agent Christie+Co.
16-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Government has told tenants who have examples of anti-competitive behaviour from their pubco to contact the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
Insist on an EPC before buying
05-Jun-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Anyone considering taking on a lease should use their negotiating strength to insist that an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is in place. That...
Green leases could help reduce carbon footprint
19-May-2008 By James Wilmore
Eco-friendly lease agreements could be the most effective way of helping the pub trade reduce its carbon footprint, a leading building consultancy...
09-Apr-2008 By Joe Lutrario
The property industry has launched new lease guidance for businesses, covering energy performance certificates and empty rates changes
07-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
Over half of all pubco tenants have never had a buildings inspection, according to an MA online poll
The lease that broke the mould
03-Apr-2008
Two decades on, it may be hard for relative newcomers to understand just how much of a revolution was begun by Grand Met when it introduced its long...
Marston's to lease out 47 pubs
03-Apr-2008
Marston's has instructed Christie+Co to market 47 of its managed houses as lease opportunities. The majority of the pubs are being offered on 10 to...
03-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Marston's has instructed Christie+Co to market 47 of its managed houses as lease opportunities
Marston's to transfer nearly 50 managed pubs
03-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Midlands brewer Marston's is set to transfer nearly 50 of its managed pubs over to leased businesses.The group has identified 47 of its managed...
01-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Summit Clubs, the nightclub company owned by former Soho Clubs and Bar chief executive Jeremy Gordeno, is in administration
Luminar Group faces possible £3m lease reversion hit
01-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Luminar, the late night venue operator, has admitted it could be facing a property-related liability of up to £3m, should a number of leases revert...
21-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Pubco hatches plan to rid itself of sites hit by smoke ban
Dilapidations: don't miss out
21-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Tenants and lessees are being advised to swot up on their rights to avoid a hefty dilapidations bill when selling a pub. Cookseys DMP managing...
14-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
MA deputy editor The PMA Team says up-for-sale Regent Inns has been as hard hit as any by worsening market conditions
The Agents
14-Feb-2008
Simon Chaplin Director corporate division Christie+Co The market has moved on in the last 12 months, turning from a sellers' to a buyers' market in...
13-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Hefty dilapidations bills can be avoided by knowing your rights when selling
Conversions and pub sales on the cards
07-Feb-2008
If Punch was to merge with Mitchells & Butlers, what would be the strategy? A few clues emerge from the handling of Spirit in the wake of its...
Massive in administration
31-Jan-2008
Massive Pub Company, the London multiple lessee, has been placed in administration with Grant Thornton. The move comes after the collapse of sale...
28-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
The London multiple lessee has been placed in administration with Grant Thornton
Legal advice: The pub property year review
13-Dec-2007
IN THIS season of good cheer, let us pause for a moment and look back at some of the property issues we have covered for you in The Publican during...
Legal advice: Service charge code
23-Nov-2007
It is up to landlords to decide whether or not to abide by the code, as it does not have legal status. Professional negligenceHowever, if matters are...
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises creates new pubco
02-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) has created the Discovery Pub Company (DPC) to encompass the estate of 250 ex-Marston's sites...
Trust Inns expands in managed sector
01-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Lancashire-based Trust Inns is set to expand its small estate of managed pubs following a highly successful first year of trading. The company says...
25-Oct-2007
Multiple operator Pleisure is severing business ties with Greene King over a dispute linked to the decision to reinstate Harveys at the Lewes Arms...
Pleisure severs tie with Greene King
25-Oct-2007
Multiple operator Pleisure is severing business ties with Greene King over a dispute linked to the decision to reinstate Harveys at the Lewes Arms...
Legal advice: Breaking your lease
17-Oct-2007
WHAT HAPPENS when you want to serve notice on your landlord in order to move to different premises? You may have a right in your lease to serve...
Sources of conflict when a tenancy ends
27-Sep-2007
Following on from my article on landlord and tenant relationships last week, there is another area which, if anything, is the most damaging aspect...
Legal advice: Vermin infestations
24-Sep-2007
If you suffer an infestation of pests of any sort at your pub, you may wonder whether it is you or the landlord who should take responsibility for...
Legal advice: Withholding rent
24-Sep-2007
Tenancy agreements usually require rent to be paid in advance on particular dates. If a tenant is facing financial problems and has trouble paying on...
MyShout
20-Sep-2007
It's about time the industry recognised the vital role played by multiple retailers, says Nick Bish When I opened last week's MA I was both delighted...
An unbalanced legal relationship
20-Sep-2007
If I seem to be getting more than my fair share of complaints about the heavy-handed behaviour of the two leading pub-lease companies at the moment,...
MyShout
13-Sep-2007
When it comes to lease assignments, Peter Linacre reckons lessees should take far more care In the ongoing open warfare that describes the...
Buying a pub abroad
01-Aug-2007
With floods sweeping the country and pub cellars getting submerged under a deluge of rainwater, you might be tempted into considering a move to...
Five leasehold pubs for sale
19-Jul-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Christie+Co is offering five leasehold pubs in London and Slough on behalf of the Three Wishes pubco. The portfolio of high-street businesses...
17-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
The Three Wishes Group is selling five leasehold high street pubs and bars through agent Christie + Co. They are available on an individual basis or...
06-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
The first assignment of a former Spirit pub converted to lease by Punch has been completed for around £400,000 - four times the price that the...
