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...
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...
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...
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...
10 Deborah Kemp
31-May-2007
managing director, Punch leased and tenanted (new entry)
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...
Greene King makes 50 new leases available
26-Apr-2007
Greene King is making 50 new lease opportunities available through agent Christie+Co. The pubs are located in key rural and town-centre trading...
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,...
18-Apr-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is making 50 new lease opportunities available through agent Christie + Co.
THE AGENTS
12-Apr-2007
Neil Morgan Director of Pubs, Christie+Co The shortage of freehold pubs has undoubtedly had a positive effect on the leasehold market. New and...
THE AGENTS
12-Apr-2007
Neil Morgan Director of Pubs, Christie+Co The shortage of freehold pubs has undoubtedly had a positive effect on the leasehold market. New and...
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...
Legal advice: How to deal with travellers on your land
23-Mar-2007
The police have a discretionary power under Section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1994 to remove groups where public order issues arise. If the...
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...
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...
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...
Punch 'caused pub closure'
01-Feb-2007
A former Punch licensee claims the failure of the company to disclose a pending health and hygiene prosecution triggered a train of events which led...
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...
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...
22-Jan-2007 By M&C Report
Luminar has announced it has completed the sale of its entertainment division and 31 non-core units in a deal worth £95.8m. The company has sold 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...
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...
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...
Provence's fall leaves debts of £7m
21-Dec-2006
The collapsed Provence Commercial Properties (PCP) had bank debts of more than £7.2m when adminstrators were called in to sort out the company's...
21-Dec-2006
The collapsed Provence Commercial Properties had bank debts of more than £7.2m when administrators were called in.
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...
Luminar sells its Entertainment Division
05-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Luminar has sold its struggling Entertainment Division in a sale and leaseback deal worth nearly £95m.Subject to shareholder approval it has sold a...
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...
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...
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...
MyNewPub
02-Nov-2006
The Three Tuns Cowlinge Suffolk Agent - Guy Simmonds Sue and Chris Smith gave up their life as nurses in Essex to take over the Three Tuns in rural...
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...
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
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...
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...
