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.
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).
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
21-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Pubco hatches plan to rid itself of sites hit by smoke ban
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
MyShout
05-Jul-2007
The pub lease has come a long way since its introduction almost 20 years ago, says Colin Wellstead The pub lease, as we know it today, was introduced...
More leases for Greene King
05-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is to offer more of its pubs on a leased basis to attract more entrepreneurial licensees. The company has traditionally let around 80%...
Shining a light on rent reviews
18-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
The property agent Most tenants feel hard done by at rent review time. That was the frank admission from Fleurets' chairman Barry Gillham, during the...
Business Opinion
14-Jun-2007 By with The PMA Team
Cains pioneers new business model The story of the rise of Cains began a new chapter last week when the reverse takeover of managed operator...
Prepare for rent reviews, urges host
14-Jun-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Tenants who prepare poorly for rent reviews are responsible, in part, for high rents - that's the stark warning from former BII licensee of the year...
THE AGENTS
07-Jun-2007
Stephen Taylor Guy Simmonds Managing Director Despite recent worrying rises in interest rates, we at Guy Simmonds are still finding the...
07-Jun-2007 By Ewan Turney
Tenants who prepare poorly for rent reviews are responsible for setting high rents, says award-winning licensee
Study to look at lease code
05-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A major study is to be carried out to assess the take-up and impact of a new code of practice covering lease agreements. The updated Code for Leasing...
14 Stephen Oliver managing director, Marston's Pub Company (MPC) (17) David Elliott managing director, Greene King Pub Partners (17)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: They head up the leased and tenanted pub estates of Britain's two super-regional brewers; Oliver's Marston's Pub Company...
Legal advice: Assigning your lease
25-May-2007
Sometimes tenants want to call it a day and move on. If your lease still has several years to run, it may have a value in the open market, so you may...
10-May-2007 By with The PMA Team
Ever since Punch bought the Spirit Group managed business in January 2006, observers have wondered how long the company would remain a managed...
Pub chief bitter at Harveys turnabout
03-May-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.
A Greene King lessee has criticised the company's decision to re-introduce Harveys to the Lewes Arms, East Sussex, while his pub opposite is not...
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...
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,...
Tenants given more protection
09-Apr-2007 By James Wilmore
A new voluntary code of practice covering lease agreements for small businesses has been heralded as "good news" for licensees. The updated Code for...
THE AGENTS
05-Apr-2007
David Morgan managing director, Cookseys DMP The most unfriendly Catch 22 in regard to leasehold values is now cropping up again and again. A large...
Planning for the future
05-Apr-2007
Careful thought at the beginning of a lease agreement can save you thousands in repair charges, says Davey & Co managing director Paul Davey All...
M&C hails star turn by Peach
15-Mar-2007 By MA Reporter
Peach Pub Company, the multiple lessee led by entrepreneurs Lee Cash and Hamish Stoddart, has won the prestigious Rising Star Award in M&C...
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...
