Rent Appeals

Pub Co’s have a year to change????

By Editor ⋅ December 21, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

The rhetoric is there but not the actions. I have just viewed two pubs where the lessees are under pressure yet again, both Pub Co’s demanding rent increases of twenty and thirty three and a third percents yet again, do these companies not read the press, do they not realise that the writing is on the [...]

Pub Co’s attitude to all the recent reports

By Editor ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Has the BEC Report, the OFT, BBPA and RICS made any difference to the treatment of lessees/tenants at this moment of time. I meet licensees every week that I have never seen before, the leased and tied ones with a few exceptions in the thinking Pub owning companies, say that absolutely nothing has changed and possible [...]

RICS to make pub rent changes

By Editor ⋅ October 16, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

RICS to make pub rent changes David Rusholme and his team have taken remarkable steps to improve the anomalies in the Industry and if this progress can be continued, it will be appreciated by thousands of people involved in the Licensed Industry. The tied tenant should be financially no worse off than the free of tie [...]

Removal of the tie and the possible rent increases.

By Editor ⋅ October 12, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I am not a lawyer and I am sure that a lawyer will pull my argument to shreds, but I fail to understand the so called divisible split on profits and the so called rent calculation. Ignoring my previous article about key staff wages being a justifiable expense. If the divisible split for rental calculations is taken on the perceived [...]

Rent Appeals Question Marks

By Editor ⋅ October 10, 2009 ⋅ One comment

An interesting point was bounced off me this morning on this so called 50/50 division of profits on rent assessment. For some extraordinary reason a lessee and his wife or partner are not allowed to include their basic drawings in the running costs of the business and are therefore not considered an integral part of the divisible profit.. The [...]

Need Help With Rent Appeals

By Editor ⋅ May 11, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

If you are having trouble with a rent appeal contact David Morgan FRICS at CookseysDMP 01454 419900 he will always talk to you on the phone and steer you in the right direction. Both he and I are involved with the Licensed Trade Charity in trying to help licensees in trouble. Sadly he is one [...]

BII Rent Review Road Shows

By admin ⋅ March 1, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The BII have managed to get certain Pub Co’s to produce Codes of Practice in the way that they operate, to create more openness and clarity in a variety of matters. A colleague of mine at the Road Show told me that he had been negotiating a rent with the Estates Manager with a national pub [...]

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