14-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
A trade union has been asked to brief the Prime Minister on the plight of tied pubs. The Morning Advertiser has learnt that the GMB, which has backed...
13-May-2009 By The PMA Team
Tadcaster-based entrepreneur Jim Walsh is set to complete another phase in development of hotel group.
Pubco report says rents "open to abuse
13-May-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Rental calculations are open to manipulation and should be made more transparent to lessees according to the Business & Enterprise Committee's...
Publican Local Focus - Brighton rocks
13-May-2009
A few weeks ago The Guardian printed a multicoloured map showing Britain's unemployment hotspots. On the south coast, directly below London, was a...
North East Property Analysis
12-May-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
When The Publican visited Newcastle back in January as part of our Publican Local series, to report on how licensees in the area were finding trading...
Tuppen writes to MPs defending pubco model and slams campaigners
12-May-2009 By James Wilmore
Enterprise Inns chief Ted Tuppen has today launched a fresh attack on campaign group Fair Pint, and fiercely defended the pubco model, in a letter...
11-May-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Former Punch Taverns estate development manager David Pepper has joined pub sales agent Paramount Investments in a move designed to build...
08-May-2009 By Roger Protz
Ditching the beer tie would leave the healthy independent cask-ale sector on its knees, says Roger Protz.
Shepherd Neame buys 13 Punch pubs for £15m
08-May-2009 By Hamish Champ
Shepherd Neame, the Kent brewer, has announced it has bought 13 freehold pubs from Punch Taverns for £14.9m in cash. The pubs, three managed and 10...
07-May-2009 By Andrew Pring
JD Wetherspoon is believed to have issued proceedings against the property agent Paul Ferrari, following the legal victory over the agents Van de...
07-May-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Punch Taverns says 1,000 of its tenants have expressed an interest in buying the freehold of their pub, but so far 23 deals have gone through. That's...
JW Lees buys 10 pubs from Punch Taverns
06-May-2009 By Hamish Champ
Manchester brewer and pub operator JW Lees has bought 10 freehold pubs from Punch Taverns, the largest single acquisition by the group for more than...
Pub agent Caldicott Payne ceases trading
05-May-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Somerset-based licensed leisure property agent Caldicott Payne has ceased trading, due to tough market conditions. Sales director Richard Payne...
Signs of property market recovery
01-May-2009
Further voices in the property industry have backed reports that pub prices are unlikely to fall further and that the market is showing signs of...
Nigel Haworth to open fourth pub
30-Apr-2009
Ribble Valley Inns, the pub operation headed by leading chef Nigel Haworth, is to open its fourth pub.The conversion of the Bull at Broughton to...
30-Apr-2009 By Jo Bruce
Chef Nigel Haworth's Ribble Valley Inns is to open their first pub outside Lancashire. The Bull at Broughton, North Yorkshire, is part of the...
30-Apr-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Thousands of licensees face a hike in business rates as the Business Rates Supplement Bill moves one step closer to becoming reality. BRS, which...
30-Apr-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The Budget has failed to help the property industry by ignoring "simple practical solutions" — according to the BPF.
30-Apr-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Award-winning pub operator David Barnard has just opened the Fish House in West Sussex, following a £4m redevelopment. Barnard, operator of the Crab...
29-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
Spirit, the managed division of Punch Taverns, is looking to sell up to 100 pubs as it sets forth on a three-year programme to reach its potential.
We need to be more transparent," admits Punch Taverns
29-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
As it announced a 38 per cent slump in annual pre-tax profits Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pub operator, admitted it needed to be more transparent...
'Time, please, to save the great British pub'
29-Apr-2009
Everyone - except temperance societies - must lament the shrinkage of pubs as a loss to community life. In many places, churches, women's institutes...
Shading solutions for summer
28-Apr-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
We've been promised good weather this summer - at long last. With two terrible ones behind us, there's no doubt that customers will be itching to get...
24-Apr-2009 By John Harrington
Members of a licensee trade group are to vote on whether to campaign for abolition of the "unfair" beer tie. Guild of Master Victuallers members will...
Greene King to raise £207m via rights issue
23-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
Suffolk brewer Greene King has announced plans to raise more than £200m through issuing new shares to investors.The group said it was issuing nearly...
Budget: No reversal on business rates decision
22-Apr-2009
Alistair Darling has failed to react to demands to increase the tax relief rate period on empty business properties.In the Budget, the Chancellor...
21-Apr-2009 By Tony Halstead
Pubco tenants and lessees can look forward to an unexpected rent reduction after the annual Retail Price Index inflation rate went negative last month.
17-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is to re-open another former Laurel Pub Company site — the White Swan in Portsmouth. The venue, which was called the Muddy Duck and...
London licensees go west
17-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
Two London licensees have taken on second sites in Cornwall with St Austell Brewery. Ben Wright, of oyster wholesaler the Wright Brothers, who also...
Wellstead becomes non-exec chairman of AG&G
17-Apr-2009
Colin Wellstead, the former head of pubs at property agent Christie + Co, has become non-executive chairman of specialist licensed leisure chartered...
17-Apr-2009 By Tony Halstead
Empty and redundant public houses could get a new lease of life if plans to set up a chain of dedicated "teenage pubs" take off. Lancashire-based...
17-Apr-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A former Punch tenant who bought his pub's freehold managed to negotiate a 20% discount off the asking price. Dean Pearsall, of Saltwells Inn,...
16-Apr-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Around 450 individual licensees have tabled bids for their Punch pubs through a single broker, Acorn Commercial Finance. The quantity of offers...
Health & safety: Don't play with fire
15-Apr-2009
If there is one word guaranteed to strike a raw nerve for the hospitality industry it is… 'fire'. The high cost of a fire is often counted in lives...
14-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
Administrators are again trying to sell 19 Massive Pub Company leases a year after it sold the majority of the company to Innventive.
14-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises has put 32 pubs it owns on the market in order to concentrate on managing pubs.
Pub fights back after fire
09-Apr-2009
A plucky licensee and his wife proved the show must go on after re-opening their pub just a day after fire destroyed their living quarters. Peter and...
Wetherspoons case 'a warning' to property agents
08-Apr-2009 By Mark Jansen Mark
Property agents face uncomfortable scrutiny following yesterday's High Court victory by managed pub group JD Wetherspoon over its former property...
08-Apr-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Frederic Robinson has bought a freehold Cheshire pub from a Punch Taverns for an undisclosed sum off a guide price of £650,000. Christie+Co,...
Wetherspoons scores High Court victory over former advisers
07-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
Managed pub group JD Wetherspoon has won a three year-long battle in the High Court against one of its former property agents, Van de Berg and...
06-Apr-2009 By John Harrington
The £2.85m deal comes as multiple operator Peach aims to more than double its estate and change from being food-led to 50% wet.
Award-winning licensee opens second pub
06-Apr-2009
Multiple Publican Award winner Matthew O'Keefe, licensee of the Royal Standard of England, has purchased his second pub and formed a new pub group...
Peach Pub Company buys Punch pubs for £2.85m
06-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
Award-winning multiple operator Peach Pub Company has bought the freeholds of two pubs it leases from Punch Taverns for £2.85m.The deal to buy the...
03-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney
A senior licensee and trade representative believes removing the tie will seal the fate of hundreds of community pubs. Dennis Griffiths, Enterprise...
Call to turn pubs into social housing
02-Apr-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Licensed agents have suggested that creating social housing from disused pubs and reviewing the Government loans scheme could kick-start the market.
02-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
The 829-strong Wellington Pub Company estate is seeing a shortage of "experienced and solvent tenants", management company Criterion Asset Management...
BPF launches website to help deal with tax "choas
02-Apr-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
The British Property Federation (BPF) has launched a website to track the "chaos" caused by the scrapping of business rate relief on empty...
Sales of pubs increase despite downturn
02-Apr-2009
Sales of pubs are defying the economic down turn and have risen by 12 per cent, according to property agent Christie + Co.The agent has released...
02-Apr-2009 By John Harrington
Christie + Co has reported a 12% year-on-year rise in pub transactions, with regional brewers and established local operators taking advantage of lower values and less competition from national pubcos.
How to finance a pub purchase
01-Apr-2009
You want to get into the pub trade, but you've heard banks aren't lending. Perhaps you are already in the trade and want to expand or take on a pub...
