25-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A country house hotel named after the fictional home of Lady Chatterley — subject of DH Lawrence's novel — has come on the market at £995,000.
Legal Q&A - Property with Colman Coyle
25-Jun-2010
Is a temporary rent reduction possible? Q I'm finding it difficult to pay my rent but I don't want to default on my lease and lose my pub. I've heard...
Agent reports buyers still keen to re-open closed pubs
25-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
More than 60 per cent of closed pubs sold by a leading property agent since the start of the year have been re-opened as... pubs. As many debate the...
Wiliam Hague declares co-op pub open
25-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Not every pub opening ceremony can boast a government minister, so it helps if your local MP also happens to be the Foreign Secretary. William Hague,...
25-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Surrey multiple operator Barons Pubs has added a fourth site to its estate — the Horseshoe at Warlingham. Barons reopened the Punch leasehold...
Legal: Running a pub that's a listed building
24-Jun-2010
The expression "listed building" is frequently banded about in respect of pubs nowadays but most people may not know what the expression actually...
Property law: Heads of terms (HOT) - don't lose your head
24-Jun-2010
Clear and well thought-out heads of terms (HOTs) are crucial to the smooth running of any pub lease negotiations, so what should you be looking out...
Capital Pub Group buys Tomahawk for £5m
24-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company, the London pub operator, is set to buy Tomahawk, a rival pub group, for £5.03m in cash. The deal will be part-financed by the...
Capital Pub Co looking to nearly double in size by 2013
23-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company (CPC), the London pub operator, said today it hoped to almost double the size of its existing pub estate to 50 sites within three...
23-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The pub property market is trading to expectations, but realistic prices and hard work are needed to close deals, according to a survey by the MA.
Getting active in sunny Surrey
21-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Few in the pub sector need telling that things are tough. If the increasing cost of running a pub wasn't enough, the fact that customers are being...
Green guide for pubs released
21-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
Tourism body VisitEngland has released a free guide to help small and medium firms save money by going green. Called Green Start, the guide suggests...
New RPI leases can damage your wealth
17-Jun-2010 By Paul Wigham
RPI leases defy logic and are punishing tenants, says Paul Wigham, chief executive of Orange Sun Bars.
17-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
The BII should set up a separate arm to act as a national representative body for tenants, one senior trade consultant has argued. Speaking at the...
Capital Pub Co to tap shareholders for acquisition cash
16-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company hopes to boost its chances of snapping up more pubs in the near future by raising millions of pounds via a rights issue. The...
Pubs protected with listed status
16-Jun-2010
Five pubs that were built between the two world wars have been protected from any future plans for major changes. The Yorkshire pubs have all been...
16-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
The charity single released to help raise funds to save the Great British pub has now been officially released. British born country singer and...
Wetherspoons adds three more pubs to its portfolio
14-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
JD Wetherspoon has added three more pubs to its estate. The managed pub operator, which recently announced it would open 42 pubs in its current...
14-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise around £13m from the sale of 10 more prime London pubs at an Allsops auction on 6 July. Guide prices for the pubs...
11-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Greene King has acquired four pub restaurants from Punch Taverns for £5.3m — the pubs are food-led sites.
'We could do another Gales', says Fuller's
11-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Fuller's, the London brewer and pub operator, has the acquisitive firepower to "do another Gales", according to finance director James Douglas....
Punch Taverns sells more pubs to Greene King
11-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
In the latest disposal from Punch Taverns, Greene King has agreed to buy four managed pubs from the UK's largest pubco for £5.3m. Two the four...
10-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
Tenants have been forced to shed more staff in the past year as licensees say the recession has hit harder than expected, says a new CGA survey.
10-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Brakspear Pub Company has reopened three pubs in its home town of Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.
10-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Morning Advertiser has secured the official first play of the charity single released to help raise funds to save the Great British pub. British...
10-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Bristol-based group Loungers is expanding faster than anticipated, and has just signed a deal on its 17th site. The company, which was founded in...
09-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Everards has opened its 18th Project William pub in conjunction with Derbyshire microbrewer Amber Ales.
09-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Fun Fair Brewery has bought a freehold pub near Nottingham, and plans to relocate and expand its microbrewery to the site. Last week the firm, owned...
Orchid Group to buy 150 pubs over next two years
08-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Orchid Group, the privately-backed managed pub operator which recently acquired the Premium Bars & Restaurants business, is looking to add a...
08-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
A leading corporate finance adviser believes city analysts have got it wrong in the way they analyse pubco profitability. Speaking at the Tenanted...
08-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Managed operator Orchid plans to add another 50 pubs to its estate this year, with 100 more scheduled for 2011 — it will target both individual...
Robert Sayles: Who do they think they're kidding?
07-Jun-2010 By Robert Sayles Robert
If the latest pronouncements are to be believed then pubcos, like all forward thinking companies, are currently re-evaluating their business model in...
When the locals buy the local...
07-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
There can be few sadder sights in the on-trade than a once-cherished traditional village pub being allowed to decline, wither and then close its...
04-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Ever So Sensible, headed by former M&B executive Chris Bulaitis has opened its fourth Le Mistral French-style bistro.
03-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The owners of a Sussex gastropub have taken on a second site, and plan a £250,000 refurbishment — they also plan to have a third pub within three...
02-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Orchid has bought the freehold of the Peeping Tom in Coventry and plans to convert the site to its Value Carvery format. The Peeping Tom, a former...
02-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Trade union the GMB is backing 60 hosts in legal cases against pub companies over "lease issues and Brulines fines". GMB national officer Paul...
Cougar Leisure looks to sell off 11 sites
01-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Cougar Leisure, the bar operator created when Herald Inns & Bars went into administration in 2008, is selling 11 of its properties for a total of...
01-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Brannigans owner Cougar Leisure is selling off 11 of its 14 pubs and bars for a combined total of £5.7m.
28-May-2010 By Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows talks to Brigid Simmonds about how running marathons and army service have equipped her for the post of BBPA CEO.
Marketing your pub: Blow your own trumpet
28-May-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
It used to be a bit of an afterthought for most pubs, but good marketing and promotion - both in your pub and beyond - is now essential if you want...
BII: Pubcos' codes of practice 'encouraging'
28-May-2010 By James Wilmore
BII chief Neil Robertson says the standard of pubco codes of practice being submitted for rubber-stamping by the trade group is "encouraging"....
Game is up for cricket pub
28-May-2010
A Leicester licensee has been left with upset cricket-loving regulars after their view of the county ground was blocked due to a change in team...
27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has given its franchisees until Wednesday 30 June to submit "full and final offers" to buy the freeholds of their pubs.
24-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
North West brewer and pub operator JW Lees has acquired two ex-Mercury Inns pubs out of administration. JW Lees bought the freeholds of the Red Lion...
21-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Former M&B executive Chris Gerard is to reopen the Wellington, a Greene King leased pub, in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, on Monday.
21-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
Suffolk brewer and pub operator Adnams is to take over the management of two historic hotels under a joint venture scheme. The deal with Holkham...
21-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Pub property agents are hopeful the new Lib Dem-Conservative coalition Government will kickstart lending to the sector. Following a Morning...
Learning at the Pub: Bar school
20-May-2010 By Katie Coyne
Where can you learn how to save a life, sign with the deaf and cook a fantastic meal? Well, increasingly, it seems, you can do all of these things...
Marston's to put 600 pubs on new retail agreements
20-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Marston's said today it plans to increase ten-fold the number of its tenanted and leased pubs operating under its new retail agreement. The Midlands...
