23-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
A bid to make it harder for "unscrupulous developers" to demolish pubs and community assets could be included in the Decentralism and Localism Bill.
Brewery lifts beer tie to help sell pub
22-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Palmers, the Dorset brewer and pub operator, has lifted its beer tie from a pub it hopes to sell in order to make the property more attractive to a...
Palmers offer welcome for winter tourists
22-Nov-2010
Palmers Brewery of Dorset has splashed out £400,000 in a major overhaul of three heritage pubs in the harbour village of West Bay, near Bridport....
Enterprise to sell 500-600 pubs
22-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns said last week it plans to sell between 500 and 600 under-performing pubs in the current financial year. The pubco said it had sold...
22-Nov-2010 By John Harrington
GRS Inns says it will compensate tenants at a pub that can't sell alcohol after the licence lapsed when London Town went into administration....
22-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
Nightclub operator Luminar Leisure has completed the sale of The Jam House in Birmingham to No Saints — the company run by former Luminar boss...
18-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers' plan to expand key brands has taken one more small step forward — after it bought a Chef & Brewer site.
18-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Dorset brewer Palmers has invested £400,000 revamping three Grade II-listed tenanted pubs located in a small harbour resort. The Bridport Arms...
Property Law: Is your public house a house?
18-Nov-2010
Subject to meeting relevant criteria under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 a leaseholder may be able to forcefully acquire the freehold of his/her pub....
Property Law: Are keep open clauses enforceable?
18-Nov-2010
In the current market where there is very little interest in taking on pub leases, solicitors are being asked to advise pub owners on the...
17-Nov-2010 By Gurjit Degun
About two-thirds of pubs put to auction in the past year were sold, at an average of 4.9% above the guide price. That is according to Essential...
16-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
A former 27-bedroom Walkabout hotel in Bristol has been re-let to Brooks Hotels for an undisclosed sum.
16-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
Marston's has surrendered the lease on its Que Pasa venue in Staines, Middlesex — it had 16 years left on the lease.
Enterprise to sell Michelin pub — plus 10 more
15-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns (ETI) is hoping to raise around £11m by undertaking a sale and leaseback on another 11 pubs, including one with a Michelin star.
15-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers is to sell-off the remaining 53 franchised pubs it owns — the news comes as it completes the sale of 333 pubs.
15-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
TV chef Richard Phillips is opening a pub in Whitstable, Kent — the Enterprise leased Pearson's Arms.
A deal to suit both sides?
15-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
One doesn't often hear the names Rupert Murdoch and Enterprise Inns mentioned in the same breath. Both represent among the largest of their kind and...
M&B shares rise on rosy outlook for managed pubs
15-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) were outperforming the market today, boosted by good trade numbers across the managed pub sector and news...
Enterprise Inns to auction off more pubs
15-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns, which announces it annual results tomorrow, is auctioning off another clutch of London pubs as part of its debt reduction strategy...
Saved pub is one of the greenest
15-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
A pubrescued from the threat of being turned into flats five years ago has been transformed after support from the Rural Enterprise Grant (REG)...
15-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
JD Wetherspoon has bought the freehold of a substantial leisure unit in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset for an undisclosed sum. Cabot 5 Bars is a...
'M&B looks to sell 50 pubs'
14-Nov-2010
Harvester restaurant and Toby Carvery owner Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has put 53 pubs on the market in the latest phase of its £500m-plus...
12-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Drake & Morgan, the privately-owned bar group, has opened its fourth site — the Folly in the City of London's Gracechurch Street. It is the...
12-Nov-2010 By Graham Ridout
The Woolpack, the inn that was used as a setting for TV soap series Emmerdale, has reopened after a deal was agreed between Enterprise Inns and pub...
Employment Law: Transfer trouble
08-Nov-2010
An empty pub means no revenue from rent, premises potentially vulnerable to vandalism, and ownership of an uninsurable asset which may be...
Property body backs plans to simplify planning rules
08-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
The British Property Federation (BPF) has given the thumbs-up to government plans to simplify development consents for businesses. The BPF said it...
RICS valuation guidance at end of the month
08-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) expects to publish its guidance for rental valuations of pubs at the end of this month, six...
08-Nov-2010 By John Harrington
Business in Sport and Leisure welcomes the plan to streamline, but is concerned that new hurdles may be added to the process.
05-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Rel Pub Company is opening a sixth Break Bar site in Berkshire next year after a £700,000 refurbishment.
Meet the Enterprise lessee who bought his way out of the beer tie
04-Nov-2010
A few years back, visiting the Bree Louise near London's Euston station was a rather solitary experience. But entering its doors today reveals a very...
03-Nov-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Christie + Co has reported that the number of distressed pub sales is up by 189% on the middle two quarters of 2009.
Distressed pub sales fuelled by economic downturn
03-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
The downturn in the economy has prompted a sharp rise in the number of forced pub sales, according to a leading property agent. Christie + Co said it...
01-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
West Country Pub Co Flatcappers, headed by Alex Reilley and ex-Bibendum general manager Pierre Woodford, has opened its third pub.
01-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
The BII is to strengthen its support for new entrants to the pub trade through an extension of its mentoring scheme. In its update on pubco progress...
29-Oct-2010 By The PMA Team
UCL, the expanding pub restaurant management operator run by Ross Sanders, opens its first exclusive boutique style hotel today.
29-Oct-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Barracuda is taking its Smith & Jones brand in a new direction with the reopening of the Alchemist in Houndsditch, central London following a...
Exclusive Interview: BrewDog Aberdeen opens its jaws
28-Oct-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Licensing laws. They can really be a total kill-joy can't they? All you want to do is offer customers who tattoo your brand logo on their body free...
27-Oct-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Cougar Leisure, the bar business led by Julian Sargeson, has sold the Townhouse pub in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside to Wear Inns.
27-Oct-2010 By Ewan Turney
Wiltshire brewer Wadworth has acquired the White Hart in Wytham, near Oxford from Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) for an undisclosed sum. Licensed...
26-Oct-2010 By Ewan Turney
The couple behind the UK's first deli-Pub have purchased the freeholds of the two Mitchells & Butlers franchised pubs they operate.
26-Oct-2010 By Ewan Turney
Tim and Nick Cockburn, owners of the Prince Albert in Camden, London, are set to open their second gastropub in early December. The pair have taken...
21-Oct-2010 By The PMA Team
Property agent Christie + Co has completed the sale of the freehold interests of a number of outlets in Cornwall on behalf of Grant Thornton.
21-Oct-2010 By John Harrington
Pub is the Hub is in talks with pubcos about devising leases specifically for community groups to take on viable pubs that are under threat.
The Beer Tie: Is this the end of the debate?
21-Oct-2010 By James Wilmore
So what next in the battle over the beer tie? Many in the trade are hoping CAMRA and the anti-pubco brigade will let things lie after the Office of...
Lord Lucan's former home wins pub award
21-Oct-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub that was the family home of Lord Lucan has won a award for an outstanding refurbishment. Sutton Hall in Macclesfield was last week named as...
Gas Safety: A matter of life or death
20-Oct-2010
The recent Crown Court case involving Enterprise Inns and the Aintree Hotel in Bootle, Merseyside, has highlighted how important it is to ensure gas...
More Enterprise Inns pubs sold off at auction
20-Oct-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has raised £2.74m by selling its freehold interest in another handful of London pubs. Four pubs were put into the auction, with one...
Enterprise Inns raises £9m in latest pub auction sell-off
19-Oct-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has raised £9.25m today by selling at auction the freeholds of seven of its London pubs, which it then promptly leased back on new...
19-Oct-2010 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns has raised £11.445m auctioning freeholds of nine prime pubs, all but one located in London. As with previous sales, the pubco has...
18-Oct-2010 By The PMA Team
SA Brain, the brewer and pub operator, is set to reopen the restaurant atop Swansea's £70m Meridian Tower. The Penthouse restaurant, which is...
