Renting

Five Walkabouts are on the market

Regent puts 11 sites up for sale

By The PMA Team

Regent Inns, the troubled bar and restaurant operator, has placed six Old Orleans sites and five Walkabouts on the market. The company, which also...

Regent: Old Orleans sites up for sale

Regent puts Old Orleans sites up for sale

By Mark Stretton, M&C Report

Regent Inns, the troubled bar and restaurant operator, has placed six Old Orleans sites on the market, M&C Report has learnt. The company, which...

20-30% of Punch and Enterprise pubs may be uneconomic, according to Rollo

Analyst: 30% of pubco pubs uneconomic

By Ewan Turney

A city analyst believes that 20-30% of Enterprise and Punch leased pubs may be "uneconomic" because the licensees are making under £20,000 a year...

Pubcos

Pubcos "bend over backwards" over rents

By John Harrington

The gap between what landlords seek and what tenants are prepared to pay is widening but pubcos are shunning arbitrations, says Fleurets chairman Barry Gillham.

Fair Pint: Challenging pubco power

The economics of the Fair Pint

By Brian Jacobs

Clive Williams, in his comment piece in this magazine, referred to "trade die-hards" who are living in "cloud-cuckoo-land" and "unfairly raising the...

Stuart Bateman: Partners should have ultimate trust in each other

Pioneering Batemans to scrap rent reviews

By The PMA Team

In an industry first, Lincolnshire brewer and retailer Batemans is offering to scrap rent reviews for existing and new tenants in an attempt to remove tenants' fear that they will be "punished" for trading success.

Tenant profit could drop to just £3,000

Brumby: The cost of tenant support

By Mark Brumby

The profitability of the average tenancy could drop by £30,000 next year requiring very expensive support from the big pubcos, argues Blue Oar Securities analyst Mark Brumby.

Surge in rent arbitrations

Surge in rent arbitrations

By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u

The number of rent arbitrations undertaken by large managed operators has surged due to the down- beat economic climate, particularly the high-street...

Anand: Pubs will have to work harder than ever before to retain customers

Greene King optimistic over smoke ban

By Ewan Turney

Greene King is optimistic about the impact of the smoking ban in England after reporting an 18% rise in profit at its Scottish Belhaven division in...

Townsend told MPs beer tie has nothing to do with problems facing community pubs

Beer tie not to blame for struggling pubs

By John Harrington

The pubco model has nothing to do with the problems faced by some community pubs - Enterprise Inns chief operating officer Simon Townsend tells the Community Pubs Inquiry.

BII: Benchmarking pubco leases

Two more pubcos get lease accreditation

By John Harrington

Charles Wells Pub Company and Trust Inns are the latest tenanted operators to have their codes of practices for leases accredited for their clarity....

The agent

The agent

Graham Allman, managing director, GA-Select Freeholds are a valuable commodity and great consideration should be given as to how best to use the...

Freeholds made easier

Freeholds made easier

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...

Marston's to lease out 47 pubs

Marston's to lease out 47 pubs

By The PMA Team

Marston's has instructed Christie+Co to market 47 of its managed houses as lease opportunities

City diary

City diary

By The PMA Team

Inventive record breaking Although trading is tough, some companies are steaming through. Revolution vodka bar owner Inventive Leisure, taken private...

Business Opinion

Business Opinion

By with The PMA Team

Laurel's slippery slope of toxic leases Laurel Pub Company is pondering the best way to ditch its toxic leases, which are bleeding cash. A controlled...

The Agents

The Agents

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...