Licensees frustrated over big screen supplier
15-Feb-2007 By James Wilmore
Floods of licensees have contacted The Publican still desperate for information about big screen supplier Satvision. As news broke of the company's...
Marston's identifies right fit to lift quality
01-Feb-2007
Marston's, unveiling pub acqusition deals with Eldridge Pope and Sovereign Inns this week, has broken, albeit temporarily, the 2,500 pub barrier (558...
Barry Gilham chairman, Fleurets
01-Feb-2007
I am afraid a full repairing lease is just what it says on the tin. It is a requirement that a lessee first puts the property into full repair and...
Paul Davey managing director, Davey & Co
01-Feb-2007
The extent of the works required by your landlord in order for them to issue their consent for the lease to be assigned does, on the face of what you...
Graham Allman managing director, GA-Select
01-Feb-2007
The term "dilapidations" can be greatly misunderstood. It normally applies to the condition of a commercial property at the end of the lease period...
Legal advice: Distress remedy ripe for revision
25-Jan-2007
Distress is an ancient remedy by which a landlord who is owed rent is able to take possession of goods which are on the tenant's premises. He can...
Challenges for 2007
25-Jan-2007
In the last of our three-part series on trade issues, Mark Charman shares his experience as a Midlands-based multiple lessee who has run more than...
THE AGENTS
18-Jan-2007
David Morgan Managing Director Cookseys DMP The market is awash with leasehold public houses. There - I've said it! No platitudes about it "being a...
East & West Midlands
18-Jan-2007
Melissa Price Tilted Wig, Warwick Pub lessee Melissa Price has come a long way in a short time. About 18 months ago, she was happily carrying out...
Horror show
04-Jan-2007
London & Edinburgh licensee Jim Wyllie has endured a nightmare time following the collapse of the company and wants to know exactly where he...
It always pays to nit-pick
07-Dec-2006
Yes, the editor is right: I am a nit-picker, and proud of it! It is, I hope, to the benefit of readers that my nerdish tendencies to leave no stone...
Young's to lease half of tenanted pubs
23-Nov-2006
Young's is to convert half its tenanted estate to lease over the next two to three years. The move should see at least 20 pubs move to 20-year...
Young's on the hunt for acquisitions
17-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
With a war chest bolstered by the sale of its Wandsworth brewery site, Young & Co is set to ramp up the size of its estate across London and the...
PickoftheWeek
16-Nov-2006
Board Inn Richmond North Yorkshire Price: £125,000 Tenure: Leasehold Rent: £1,440 per annum Review: 2006 Landlord: Private Turnover: £77,000 a...
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...
THE AGENTS
26-Oct-2006
David Morgan chartered surveyor and managing director of Cookseys DMP Next July we are faced with a classic Catch-22 scenario regarding the...
Trade solicitors 'can help speed up sales'
12-Oct-2006 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
A specialised licensed trade solicitor could be the key to reducing completion times, according to agents. Managing director of Browns Annie Brown...
Punch's huge regrouping
12-Oct-2006
Is it possible for one company to run successful managed and tenanted and leasehold estates? Graham Ridout reports on Punch's model of how the two can co-exist and its approach for the future
Ex-licensees warned over reassigned leases
12-Oct-2006
Thousands of ex-licensees could face legal action from pub companies for reassigning their leases to unsuccessful tenants. The issue has been raised...
05-Oct-2006
Hundreds of London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) licensees face the extraordinary prospect of a direct relationship with the freehold owner of their pub in the wake of the company's collapse.
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...
Helping to find an agent to trust
26-Sep-2006 By James Wilmore
It's a jungle out there. Choosing the right agent to help you buy, sell or value a pub can be a headache. With stories of agents over-valuing pubs to...
THE AGENTS
21-Sep-2006
When licensed property agents are asked to comment on the property market, they almost invariably refer only to freehold sales and/or...
18-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
The Flodrive Group has acted quickly to buy the fixture and fittings on 240 hotels and pubs leased to London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG)....
Tenants to get better deal thanks to new code of practice
07-Sep-2006 By James Wilmore
Commercial leases may become more tenant-friendly thanks to a new code of practice due to be published in November. The voluntary code will tell...
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...
More casualties of Inn-Direct come forward
31-Aug-2006
More victims of Bradford-based training company Inn-Direct have been contacting The Publican after paying thousands of pounds only to be left in...
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...
29-Aug-2006 By Lucy Britner
Pub companies are missing out on thousands of pounds by not charging premiums for quality managed houses being converted to lease, according to Christie+Co director Colin Wellstead. NEW COMMENT
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,...
Special report: Tenancies & Leases Guide 2006
19-Jul-2006
Binge-drinking scares and the forthcoming smoking ban are failing to dampen the public's enthusiasm for the idea of running a pub of their own. While...
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...
Massive Putney pub for auction at £2.5m
22-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
A public auction in London next month sees the completion of another innovative property deal by Massive Pub Company, the multiple leasehold group...
22-Jun-2006 By Peter Coulson
No licence to display QCan we be prosecuted if we are not displaying our premises licence because we have not yet received it from the council?...
22-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Punch Taverns has announced "excellent" results with pre-tax profit up 13%. NEW COMMENT
Scammed licensee comes up trumps
11-May-2006
Paul St. John Campbell, who runs the Queen Edith pub in Cambridge, said he had been left in limbo with no support or communication when rogue...
Under the hammer
19-Apr-2006
Auction expert Matthew Mears gives some tips on the process.Individually, licensed premises are considered to be small-value transactions in the...
New breed emerging in race for pub tenancies
23-Mar-2006 By MA Reporter
Pubcos are finding entrepreneurs who previously put their money into burger chains, print shops and other franchise operations are emerging as a new...
Legal advice: Making a clean break
03-Feb-2006
A look at leases and the problems that can come with terminating them.By Keith Miller of thePublican.com's team of legal experts from London...
Shake up in the Spirit world
26-Jan-2006
The next two years will see the biggest en masse transfer of managed pubs into tenanted and leased houses in 10 years. Swathes of existing Spirit...
Legal advice: Successful sub-letting
06-Jan-2006
Suppose you would like to sub-let part of your premises - do you know what that would entail?By Keith Miller of thePublican.com's team of legal...
Smoking ban to start affecting property prices this year
05-Jan-2006
The issue of smoking in pubs looks set to have the biggest impact on property prices over the next year, leading property agents have...
Punch might sell 1,000 Spirit pubs
01-Dec-2005
Punch Taverns is prepared to sell on up to 1,000 of the pubs it has acquired from Spirit Group.Having committed Punch to converting 750 Spirit pubs...
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...
A seller's market
21-Sep-2005
Michelle Perrett takes a look at how the pub property industry has changed in the last 30 years.In 1975 Jaws hit our movie screens, Fawlty Towers was...
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...
Survey roundup key findings from the MA surveys
25-Aug-2005
Over the past three weeks, the MA has published the results of its surveys into the freehouse, tenancy & leasehold and managed sectors. Here are...
Legal advice: Caught in lease trap
28-Jul-2005
Exercising a break clause to quit your premises may not be as straight forward as you suppose.By Keith Miller of thePublican.com's team of legal...
Rumours swirl about biggest pub deal ever
14-Jul-2005
by MA Reporter The biggest pub deal ever is still on the table but it may be Mitchells & Butlers rather than rival Punch that takes over Spirit,...
Punch vows to cut rogue recruitment firms from its list
09-Jun-2005
Punch Taverns has unveiled a new plan aimed at ensuring rogue recruitment firms keep their hands off its pubs. The pub company's action follows...
