Freeholds made easier
03-Apr-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Fleurets and Coffer Corporate Leisure are teaming up to help pubco licensees buy the freehold of their pub. Fleurets has piloted the scheme with...
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...
31-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Globe Pub Company beer sales down by 8% and 35 pubs are paying nil rent
Flying the flag for family brewers
20-Mar-2008
Stockport-based Robinsons prides itself on keeping things simple and supporting licensees whenever possible. Tony Halstead reports Tenants of...
22-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Average tenanted licensee profit down 10%, says Goldman Sachs
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...
Trust Inns: managed pub expansion after success
01-Nov-2007
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...
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...
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
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...
Leasehold market shows its strength
06-Sep-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Property agents agree that the success of Christie+Co and Punch Taverns' recent letting campaign shows the strength of the leasehold market. The...
Punch completes Spirit conversion
20-Aug-2007 By James Wilmore
Punch Taverns has completed the transfer of 650 former managed Spirit pubs into its leased estate. The Burton-on-Trent-based pubco paid £2.7bn for...
Christie + Co completes on over 650 ex-Spirit Group Punch leases
20-Aug-2007 By Joe Lutrario
Christie + Co has successfully transferred in excess of 650 ex-Spirit Group Punch leases
Chris Platts, Partner, Brownhill Vickers and Platts
01-Aug-2007
I find it hard to believe that your pubco has suddenly "found" a lease amendment and is looking to enforce it. Your first port of call must be the...
Money available for flood-hit pubs
30-Jul-2007 By James Wilmore
The BII and Licensed Trade Charity have issued details on how flood-hit licensees can apply for grants to give them financial support. Pubs hit in...
Legal advice: Buying outside the tie?
20-Jul-2007
Many tenants are required by a contractual obligation under their tenancy agreement to purchase beer and other products from their landlord or from...
Brakspear Pub Company new name for Henley operator
09-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
JT Davies and Sons, the company that bought Henley on Thames-based Brakspear last year, has re-named the entire company Brakspear Pub Company. The...
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%...
03-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%...
London Town offers 43 pubs for lease
21-Jun-2007
London Town, the publicly listed tenanted pub company, is putting 43 new pubs up for lease. Each pub has been earmarked as either a new assignable...
Pub HIPs set to hit the trade next year
14-Jun-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
From 2008 pubs will face energy checks that could hit the value of businesses All pubs that are sold, rented or built from 2008 will have to have...
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...
07-Jun-2007 By Ewan Turney
Tenants who prepare poorly for rent reviews are responsible for setting high rents, says award-winning licensee
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...
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...
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...
Greene King tenants join online revolution
14-Mar-2007
Greene King tenants are to be given the option to make liquid orders entirely online in what the pubco believes is a first in the industry.It follows...
Young's shake-up cuts 22 jobs
08-Mar-2007
Young's is cutting 22 jobs, including that of tied estate director Tom Hutchings, as part of a major structural reorganisation. The cutbacks, which...
06-Mar-2007
Young's is cutting 22 jobs, including that of tied estate director Tom Hutchings, as part of a major structural reorganisation. The cutbacks, which...
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...
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...
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...
MyNewPub
11-Jan-2007
The Bull Inn, Olney, Buckinghamshire Agent - Christie+Co A team of three chefs has taken on the Bull Inn in Olney, Buckinghamshire. The chefs,...
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...
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...
Should we be made to pay for dilapidations?
02-Nov-2006
Ian Parker, now of the Three Kings in Sleaford Lincolnshire, asks if Punch acted legally when it deducted money from him to fund the dilapidations on...
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...
Independence day
19-Oct-2006 By Phil Dixon
Phil Dixon turns the traditional pub tenancy agreement on its head and suggests an open-ended, flexible approach as an alternative way forward I...
THE AGENTS
05-Oct-2006
Demand for freehold licence premises is still extremely strong and the rise in interest rates has not affected this in a major way. However, we have...
Ring the MA to find out your rent figures
28-Sep-2006
What's the future for London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) tenants whose pubs are currently in administration? Predictions are difficult...
Letting by Thwaites close to completion
28-Sep-2006
Flexibility when it comes to negotiating leases or tenancies has helped make the Thwaites letting campaign a success, according to selling agent...
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...
Hosts need to 'ask' for lease flexibility
31-Aug-2006
Licensees should demand more flexibility in their leases, according to NAI Fuller Peiser director Nigel Ball. The call comes as the new code of...
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...
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...
23-Aug-2006
It's official - the Morning Advertiser is the trade's favourite newspaper. New independent research from Ipsos Mori shows that the MA is read by more...
