Property Law

Thompson: banks are negative

Need funding for a pub? Ask your friends

By Gemma McKenna

Presenting a solid business plan or clubbing together with friends can prove the best way to finance buying a pub. That's the view of agents and...

Coubrough: time to grow

Third pub for Flying Kiwi

By Jo Bruce

A Kiwi chef has added a third pub to his group of Norfolk inns. Chris Coubrough, owner of Flying Kiwi Inns, has taken on a private lease at the...

Buckley: It'll be a real pub

Welsh brewer to open £1m Cardiff pub

By Gemma McKenna

A Welsh brewing and pub entrepreneur is to open a new £1m "traditional" pub in Cardiff — the first to be built in the city for 25 years. The...

Agents predict recovery could take a while

Pub market recovery still years away

By Gemma McKenna

Agents predict it could take between two and five years for the pub property market to return to 2007 levels, when prices were at their peak. In a...

Farriers Arms: villagers determined not to lose it

Villagers unite to land Punch pub

By Gemma McKenna

More than 80 Kent villagers have clubbed together to save their local pub — the 400-year-old Farriers Arms in Mersham.

Brian Rey and wife Elaine with Ramsay

Ramsay host takes on Yorkshire pub

By Jo Bruce

The licensee who featured in Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares has left the pub featured in the Channel Four show. Brian and Elaine Rey's Punch lease, the...

BHF claims that high house prices has led to pub closures in the countryside

High rural house prices fuel pub closures

By Ewan Turney

A chronic shortage of affordable rural housing is helping to fuel the closure of hundreds of of country pubs and village shops. The National Housing...

Realpubs runs the Pembroke in Old Brompton Road

Realpubs buys five Punch freeholds

By The PMA Team

Realpubs have acquired five freehold London pubs from Punch Taverns in a deal estimated to be worth under £10m. The company has bought the freehold of two Punch pubs it currently leases plus three more sites.

JD Wetherspoon: taking advantage of current conditions in pub property market

JD Wetherspoon snapping up bargain pubs

By The PMA Team

JD Wetherspoon is now buying freehold pubs for a little as half the price of two years ago. The company is acquiring sites for as little as £1m for...

Greene King: U-turn on pubs

Greene King reprieves three Cambridge pubs

By The PMA Team

Greene King has changed its mind about selling three pubs in the same small area of Cambridge after the pubs received strong support from their...

Innovative deals are on the market

Vendors incentivise pub sales

By Gemma McKenna

Vendor loans to buyers and part exchange for residential homes now account for up to 25% of pub sales, according to agents, as sellers become more...

Thorley: 300 pub sales to licensees

Thorley: 300 hosts lined up to buy pubs

By The PMA Team

The number of individual Punch licensees who end up buying their pub is likely to end up well in excess of 300. This morning, Punch said there were around 300 deals either complete or going through legals.

Under half scored their pubco 8 out of 10 or above

Tenants lag behind overall pub sector

By The PMA Team

Almost two-thirds of tenants are trading resiliently, but are still lagging behind the pub sector overall. That's according to a new survey of 500 tenanted pubs by CGA, commissioned by the Morning Advertiser.

Regionals are getting more interest in pubs

Recession prompts rise in pub applications

By Gemma McKenna

Regional brewers say applications for tenanted pubs have risen sharply since the start of the year — with increased redundancies cited as a reason....

Punch Taverns: best offers came from JW Lees and Shepherd Neame

Hosts 'kept in dark' as Punch sells pubs

By Gemma McKenna

Two licensees have accused Punch of selling their pubs "behind their backs" to regional brewers while they were busy still bidding for the freeholds....

Compulsory: certificates rate pubs' energy efficiency

Smaller operators behind on EPCs

By Gemma McKenna

While bigger pubcos have got to grips with energy performance certificates, smaller operators haven't quite caught up — that's according to experts...

Mixed results at auction

Auction prompts sales for pubcos

By Gemma McKenna

A Bristol auction brought mixed results for Admiral Taverns and Enterprise Inns last week. Admiral had three pubs in the auction, none of which sold,...

Greene King pub to be sold

Greene King puts 11 Belhaven pubs on market

By Gemma McKenna

Greene King's Scottish brewery Belhaven has put 11 freehold pubs on the market. The majority of the pubs, which range from the Waterline in Greenock...

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