08-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Enterprise Inns is hoping to raise around £2.6m by selling the freeholds of three pubs at an Acuitus auction on 22 February in London. The pubs are...
Ban on pub's outside drinkers stays after third appeal
01-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
A London pub which was forced to ban people from drinking outside after 6pm has lost its third appeal against the decision. The Endurance in Berwick...
James Wilmore: Please give us a break Mr Penrose!
31-Jan-2011 By James Wilmore
Surely we can't have another government fudge on our hands? Hot on the heals of the below-cost ban debacle, the noises the coalition is now making...
28-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Underlying profits at Marston's tenanted and leased pubs are showing signs of improvement thanks to its introduction of a franchise-style lease. The Retail Agreement offers licensees 20% of turnover.
28-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Blue Moon Pubs, the West Yorkshire multiple operator founded in late 2007, is set to add a further two pubs to its existing six sites.
28-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Hillbrooke Hotels, the company that specialises in coaching inns, is opening two sites in the historic town of Stamford in Lincolnshire. The company...
26-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Nightclub company Luminar has appointed agent Gerald Eve to sell five sites, including a 65,475 sq ft block in Preston.
26-Jan-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Christie+Co's director of restaurants, Simon Chaplin, talks to the Morning Advertiser about the pub property market.
26-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
A group of individuals who have worked for award-winning Peach Pub Company have branched out to start their own venture. The sister of Peach Pub...
26-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
MPs on the Save the Pub Group have urged the Government to include new planning laws making it harder to demolish pubs in the Localism Bill.
25-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is buying a hotel with 18 bedrooms in the Welsh town of Ruthin, which has a population of just over 5,000. Observers claim this is...
Plan to change empty property business rates under fire
21-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Plans to change the way business rates are calculated on empty properties could leave small businesses seriously out of pocket, claims a trade...
20-Jan-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Enterprise Inns and Admiral Taverns will be auctioning 27 of their pubs in Wales, the Morning Advertiser has learnt. Out of a total 30 freehold pubs...
19-Jan-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Pub property prices stabilised in 2010, but the market remains fragile, according to leading property agent Christie+Co.
MPs question community 'right to buy' promise
19-Jan-2011 By James Wilmore
A coalition pledge to give communities the "right to buy" local assets, such as pubs, is being ignored, a senior Labour MP has claimed. Caroline...
Enterprise Inns sells 29 pubs for £42m
14-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has sold the freeholds of 29 London pubs to Max Property Group for £42.56m. It has leased back the pubs on new 35 FRI leases linked...
14-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Half of all freehold pubs sold by Fleurets in the year to 30 September 2010 were for alternative use, up from 42% on the previous year. Sale prices...
12-Jan-2011 By Gurjit Degun
2010 was yet another difficult year for the trade, so what does 2011 hold for the pub property market? We spoke to the agents.
R&L Properties pubs go into administration
12-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Deloitte, the accountancy firm, has been appointed administrator to 207 pubs previously owned by Robert Tchenguiz's R20 property group. The pubs, all...
12-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Preston-based pub group Amber Taverns has acquired the Lamplighters pub in Castleford, West Yorkshire for an undisclosed sum. The Lamplighters is a...
12-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Lincoln-based multiple operator Kurnia Group has closed Kai's Bar Louth — and may not re-open the site. The venue closed on New Year's Day and...
Be At One plans ambitious roll-out
10-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Be At One, the London-based cocktail bar operator, has ambitious plans to grow the size of its estate having seen like-for-like sales over the past...
Punch Taverns hit with £27K bill over 'serious' fire safety failures
07-Jan-2011 By James Wilmore
Punch Taverns has been hit with a bill of more than £27,000 after "serious" breaches of fire safety laws at one of its former London pubs. The...
Restrictive covenant consultation due by summer 2011
31-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
The coalition government plans to launch a public consultation over the issue of restrictive covenants on pubs by the summer of next year. The...
RICS produces guidance for rent valuations
22-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has finally published its guidance notes covering the rental valuation of pubs in the much of the...
Enterprise Inns to sell package of 27 pubs
22-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns is believed to be preparing to sell off the freehold interest in 27 pubs, possibly as part of its ongoing sale and leaseback...
21-Dec-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator JD Wetherspoon opened its last pub of 2010 today — and its fourth in Brighton.
21-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney
Comedy chain Jongleurs is in discussions to purchase a flagship London venue in the West End. The operator, now owned by Maria Kempinska and run by...
Young's confirms £60m Geronimo Inns acquisition
16-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
Young & Co, the London-based pub operator, has confirmed its acquisition of Geronimo Inns, the managed pub group, for £60m in cash. The deal,...
16-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney
London based pub operator and brewer Young's has acquired the 26-strong Geronimo Inns for £60m in cash. Geronimo was founded in 1995, by Rupert and...
16-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
The Crows Nest, in Port Isaac, north Cornwall — the pub in ITV show Doc Martin — is up for sale for £399,950. The pub is a two-storey building...
Robert Sayles: Ex-BDM turns whistleblower - Exclusive
14-Dec-2010 By Robert Sayles Robert
The revelations that I'm about to share with you have been made by a former employee of a major pub operator. Employed as a BDM, he worked a total...
New rights for residents to buy local pubs
13-Dec-2010 By James Wilmore
Communities will be given "powerful new rights" to buy under-threat pubs, as part of new government plans announced today. The "landmark" Localism...
09-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
JD Wetherspoon has acquired an historic pub by the Trent Bridge cricket venue from Mitchells & Butlers. The managed operator is planning a...
08-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
The price of freehold pubs has fallen 22% year-on-year, with sites flooding the market as pubco disposals continue. About a quarter (26%) of these...
Enterprise Inns raises £10m in latest freehold sell-off
07-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has raised £10m after successfully selling the freeholds to nine pubs it put into a sale and leaseback auction. The group had put...
07-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
Enterprise Inns has raised £9.9m selling all of the nine pubs it put up for auction today. The company sold the freeholds of the pubs with a...
07-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney
Property agent Fleurets has unveiled a host of promotions with Will Thomas and Adrian Vickery promoted to associate level. James Davies, Andy...
06-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
The cost of building a new pub is still around 15% lower than the peak of 2007, according to RICS.
03-Dec-2010 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
Britain's Got Talent host Piers Morgan has bought the leasehold interest in his local pub, The Hansom Cab, in Kensington, and has employed former La...
03-Dec-2010 By The PMA Team
Realpubs, the London pub operator founded by Malcolm Heap and Nick Pring, has bought the freehold of its 14th pub.
Exclusive: Young & Co to buy Geronimo Inns
02-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
Young's, the London-based pub operator, is close to buying Geronimo Inns, the managed pub business established more than a decade ago by Rupert and...
Piccadilly lessees to get letters confirming Admiral Taverns deal
02-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
Lessees with pubs formerly owned by Piccadilly Licensed Properties (PLP) will receive letters today confirming their new landlord is Admiral Taverns....
02-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Stafford based Lewis Partnership, headed by a former BII Licensee of the Year, has taken on a fifth pub. Private leasehold the Dog and Doublet...
26-Nov-2010 By Michelle Perrett
Further administrations are likely in the pub sector as we have only "hit the tip of the iceberg". That's the warning from Christie+Co head of pubs...
Licensing Law: Hours of confusion guaranteed
25-Nov-2010
The existence of separate licensing and planning regimes causes frequent confusion amongst both publicans and statutory authorities alike, given that...
Pub denied licence over noisy customers
25-Nov-2010 By James Wilmore
A frustrated licensee is hoping to mobilise support from his locals to get his pub's licence back after it was refused due to noisy smokers. Sean...
24-Nov-2010 By Gurjit Degun
Pubs are continuing to appeal against new business rate levels, with more than 2,000 appeals lodged since the end of June. The Valuation Appeals...
Groups back MP's bid to protect pubs
23-Nov-2010 By James Wilmore
A 10-strong coalition of campaign and community groups are backing an MP's bid for a new law to stop "unscrupulous developers" demolishing pubs....
Enterprise Inns: 'no comment' on Fair Pint's latest beer flow claims
23-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has declined to comment on a request by Fair Pint, the campaign group seeking to overthrow the beer tie, that it confirms the beer...
