Empty rate toll will escalate closures
31-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore
A leading property agent has hit out at changes to cut rate relief on empty properties, claiming it will have the "opposite effect" to what the...
Listed pub changes hands
27-Mar-2008
A well-known pub in Oxfordshire has changed hands through Colliers Robert Barry. Burford House Hotel, in the Cotswold town of Burford, is described...
Rates threat to vacant pubs
06-Mar-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A pubco property boss has said that the empty-property relief rate changes will not alter how his company looks at empty sites. Punch Taverns...
29-Feb-2008 By Joe Lutrario
Regulations have been laid in Parliament to enable the introduction of reforms to empty property rates on April 1. The most significant change is...
Valleys of turmoil
07-Feb-2008 By James Wilmore
As was noted in last week's Publican Wales Focus, the country is "heavily over-subscribed with licensed premises". This was the view of Graham Wall,...
House market fuels sales dip
31-Jan-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
The combination of a stagnant housing market and the credit squeeze is making it much harder for potential buyers to fund purchases. The sharp dip in...
18-Jan-2008 By Joe Lutrario
Christie + Co says leasehold premiums could "hit new heights" as the supply of freehold sites dries up
CGT reforms under renewed attack
17-Jan-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Alastair Darling's planned scrapping of the taper-relief system on capital gains tax (CGT) has come under fresh attack from business leaders and the...
Punch Taverns to build new multi-million pound HQ
02-Jan-2008
Punch Taverns has secured planning permission to build a new three-storey, multi-million pound office building in Burton on Trent.The pubco said it...
Let market forces dictate pub closures
19-Dec-2007
With the housing market now showing signs of a slowdown will we see an end to our pubs being bulldozed by property developers?Pub conservationists...
Geoff Newton: Industry needs to pull together
03-Dec-2007
The papers have been full of doom and gloom lately - volatile world stock markets, a global credit crunch, concerns over certain banks and their...
Pub prices "cooling
26-Nov-2007 By James Wilmore
Average pub prices are "cooling", according to property agents Fleurets. The company's annual price survey revealed the average price of a freehold...
Extra pubs on agents' books
22-Nov-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A survey has revealed that 80% of licensed property agents have more properties on their books now than at this time last year. The figure suggests...
Pubfolio sale withdrawn
01-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
A package of 340 tenanted Pubfolio pubs has been withdrawn from the market after bidders failed to meet the £100m asking price, according to...
Stephen Taylor: 'it's a buyers' market'
25-Oct-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the residential property boom of the last 10 years has left the housing market extremely...
19-Oct-2007 By Joe Lutrario
Experts warn the vulnerable housing market could have a knock-on effect for the pub market
London Town sees pre-tax loss widen
26-Sep-2007 By Tamara Sender of M&C Report
London Town, the Aim-listed property developer and pub operator, has reported a widening of its pre-tax loss from £46,000 in 2006 to £1.695m for...
BarTalk
20-Sep-2007
Are you worried by the current state of the economy? John Ellis Crown Inn Oakengates Shropshire I'm not at all worried about my freehold business but...
Wetherspoon's Jim Clarke to join Countrywide
07-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Jim Clarke, JD Wetherspoon's outgoing finance director, is to join estate agent Countrywide as group finance director.Clarke, who has been with the...
Holding steady
29-Aug-2007 By James Wilmore
With its array of traditional market towns, historic architecture and excellent climate, East Anglia is a popular place to run a pub. But with the...
THE AGENTS
09-Aug-2007 By Konrad Szymanski Humberstones Director
At Humberstones we have a sister company called Humberstones Financial Services (HFS) that provides finance for the purchase of pubs. Traditionally...
02-Aug-2007 By Ewan Turney
Flood-hit licensees wait as the national cost of damage to insurers reaches estimated £2.5bn
THE AGENTS
21-Jun-2007
Graham Allman Managing director GA Select The domestic property market is always a barometer - though not the driver - for business transfer agents....
Pubs face rates hit
24-May-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A new bill could penalise licensees who close for refurbishment by making them pay full occupying rates. As the law currently stands, licensees can...
£1m freeholds are top targets
24-May-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Freehouses marketed and sold in excess of £1m are becoming increasingly common in the property market. Pubcos are actively seeking out such...
22-May-2007 By The PMA Team
M&B set to sell most of its freeholds to a 50:50 joint venture property company
18-Apr-2007
More people will die in house fires after the smoking ban, claims a new report. Direct Line Home Insurance and the Fire Protection Association have...
17-Apr-2007
There are just two weeks to go until the Morning Advertiser's Pub Business show at the NEC on May 1 and 2. The huge event is absolutely free to enter...
Chris Maclean: a question of location
17-Apr-2007 By Chris Maclean
I've just come back from the opening night of a pub taken over by a friend of mine.This is a rural pub, in the middle of nowhere, which has managed...
30-Mar-2007 By The PMA Team
Analyst says Mitchells & Butlers could follow Tesco by creating a joint venture property company but avoiding conversion to a real estate investment trust (Reit)
Wetherspoon's in row over deal
29-Mar-2007 By James Wilmore
A property agent and JD Wetherspoon have vowed never to work with each other again after a dispute over a pub deal. Wetherspoon's has pulled out of...
Will they or won't they?
12-Feb-2007
Until recently, the discussions, analysis and political debate surrounding real estate investment trusts (REITs) and their impact on the property...
Property boom is bust for pubs
11-Jan-2007
Why are so many rural pubs closing, at the rate of a dozen or more a month? Is it lack of consumer demand, or some new force at play in society? The...
The REIT stuff?
01-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
It's hard to imagine Tim Clarke, the reserved chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, dancing on the tables of one of his establishments. But...
THE AGENTS
30-Nov-2006
Timothy Meek Agency Director James A Baker At any one time, the number of freehold pub sites on the market with development potential has never been...
02-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
The collapse of Provence is not founder Paul J Kiely's first business failure. Before setting up Provence, he was a director of Kiely Developments,...
What to consider when choosing your pub
18-Oct-2006
The pub is part of British tradition; still as popular today as it was in the 'good old days'. And the licensed trade in 2006 is worth £16.3bn in...
06-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
The PMA Team looks at the ramifications of the collapse of the London & Edinburgh Swallow Group
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.
Tax breaks boost the market
26-Sep-2006 By James Wilmore
A new demand is emerging for freehold pubs and bars outside that of owner operators and pub companies. It seems individual 'buy to let' investors are...
08-Sep-2006 By Ewan Turney
Property prices in both the freehold and leasehold markets have peaked - that's the view of several leading agents. A downturn in profitability...
10-Aug-2006 By John Williams
John Williams - managing director of Sidney Phillips: We've actually seen a substantial increase in the freehold licensed property market over the...
Right place, right time
21-Jun-2006
The London and south-east pub-property market graphically underlines a widening north-south divide in the UK, says Tony Halstead No other region in...
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...
Pricing a pub: Preparing for valuations
30-Mar-2006
You've decided to sell your pub and have called in an estate agent to do a valuation, but there are still lots of questions you need answers to.Paul...
Tynemill switches pubs to tenancies
16-Feb-2006
Award-winning cask-ale specialist Tynemill is now operating seven of its pubs as tenancies, the Morning Advertiser has learned. Tynemill, founded...
Added value
10-Feb-2006
Does the profits method of valuing pubs gauge the property or the business value? Robert May explains the subtle differences.There are some trading...
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...
Holding its own
02-Nov-2005
Although the residential property market is in something of a slump, the same cannot be said of pubs at all. Michelle Perrett reports.Sales of...
Urban pubs targeted by developers for conversion
11-Oct-2005
Recent sales of pubs in the London area suggest the redevelopment of licensed premises for use as housing continues to grow.Even requirements over...
