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%...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
17-Aug-2006 By Tony Halstead
Fewer than 50 Punch licensees have exercised their right to jettison the beer tie which would enable them to negotiate lucrative free-trade prices...
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...
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?...
Some tenancy agreements are only going to be signed by idiots
11-May-2006
Fleurets chairman Barry Gillham asks the trade to think about the lessee when considering tenancy deals
Lease Query
07-Apr-2006
I paid £12000 to help out a "friend" who wanted to take over the Greyhound pub in early 2005. I decided to go on the lease myself as well in...
30-Mar-2006 By Ewan Turney
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has "snubbed" the key recommendations of the Trade & Industry Select Committee
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...
JW Lees investigates tenants
09-Feb-2006
Manchester brewer JW Lees has launched an investigation across its 130-strong tenanted estate after finding a band of licensees buying outside the...
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...
RENTWATCH
26-Jan-2006
Licensee Paul Dearing thought fate had dealt him a cruel hand when Punch decided to more than triple his rent at the Kings Arms in Newport, East...
Charles Wells to offer franchise agreements
01-Dec-2005
by John Harrington Bedford pub operator Charles Wells is offering all new and existing licensees the chance to become franchisees after a successful...
70 pubcos end upward-only rent agreements
01-Dec-2005
reviews as part of a new code of practice on leases and tenancies drawn up by the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).
Heat's on for over-rented pubs
03-Nov-2005
There have been claims that the pub-owning company Provence is charging tenants unaffordable rents at some country inns. Its pubs are sold to...
A Punch licensee feels she has been forced into accepting a
20-Oct-2005
Maria Wells, of the Crown Inn in the West Yorkshire village of Addingham, claims she spent close to £30,000 on improvements to the pub since taking...
Pubfolio: 'please leave now'
13-Oct-2005
by The PMA Team Pub company Pubfolio has given 15 of its tenants notice to quit after selling their pubs. The situation highlights the vulnerability...
Leasehold prices head north
22-Sep-2005
With freehouses a rare commodity in the north, leasehold property prices are soaring, reports Tony Halstead Like other regions of the UK, the north...
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...
Punch rent hike goes to tribunal
15-Sep-2005 By Ewan Turney
A couple who feel they are being penalised for their own success are having their case heard at a rent tribunal in Reading County Court following...
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...
RICS to examine rent calculation
11-Aug-2005
by Ewan Turney The co-founder of the Freedom for Pubs Association (FFPA) is hopeful that significant progress can now be made in calculating fairer...
