Industry Insight

Our long-standing involvement in the licensed and leisure property sector has developed our detailed understanding of the inner workings, tricks, and strategies used against many lessees and tenants at various stages of their tenure. We have put together a resource bank, bringing our knowledge to light, in an effort to inform the operators of our industry what actually goes on.

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The Shrinking List of Independent Assessors

M & C Editorial Team

Sep 4
3 min

The Shrinking List of Independent Assessors

The available list of IAs will continue to shrink as more Determinations surface and genuinely take into consideration the reality.

M & C Editorial Team

Sep 1
2 min

RIP to the RPI?

RPI is now on its way to the scrap yard. The CPI must be the only relevant measure of inflation. POBs should do well to accept this fact.

M & C Editorial Team

Aug 26
2 min

When is a Structure a Building?

A stone horse trough or an ancient gypsy caravan or even an old double decker bus come to mind. Yes, we have seen all of them at one time...

Business Plans, Be Careful What You Wish For

M & C Editorial Team

Aug 24
3 min

Business Plans, Be Careful What You Wish For

A growing number of high calibre operators are beginning to see the writing on the wall after little to no luck in their attempts to help...

M & C Editorial Team

Aug 19
3 min

Forward Projections

What concerns us is the elephant in the room being the time it will take to finally come out of the pandemic once and for all.

M & C Editorial Team

Aug 12
2 min

July Roundup

It has been a month of refection with hopes being raised but the truth of the vulnerability of the coming autumn/winter sinking in.

M & C Editorial Team

Aug 7
3 min

Reality Check

The future duration of the pandemic is now sinking in with mainstream economic forecasts predicting anything up to three years.

The Case of Non-Viability & How It Arose

M & C Editorial Team

Jul 30
3 min

The Case of Non-Viability & How It Arose

Pubs that have been left to drift, abandoned and closed can and do rise like a phoenix from the ashes of neglect.

M & C Editorial Team

Jul 24
3 min

Will History Repeat Itself?

What happens when the POBs find that rent income is being compromised? What will they do to “maintain shareholder value”?

M & C Editorial Team

Jul 22
2 min

Long Term MRO Trigger Event

No not an open and shut case by any means. We reckon that you need to keep very accurate records of the downwards movement in trade over

Draymen's Gossip - Recent IA Awards (MRO)

M & C Editorial Team

Jul 17
2 min

Draymen's Gossip - Recent IA Awards (MRO)

Could a stream of identical appeals be thought of as vexatious? We do not know the answer to that one…

M & C Editorial Team

Jul 13
3 min

Reflecting The Market - Part II

We have lost count of the number of future forecasts of trade that have no direct bearing on reality.

M & C Editorial Team

Jul 10
4 min

Reflecting The Market - Part I

We hope you are getting the picture of how misleading comperables can be in the current real world.

M & C Editorial Team

Jul 6
2 min

June Roundup - Progress of a Sort

The link up with the squeeze on household finances and the speed of recovery in the hospitality world will be challenging to say the least.

M & C Editorial Team

Jun 29
3 min

Corpsing - Recent IA Award

Whether the Determination does represent the true open market value only time will tell.

M & C Editorial Team

Jun 19
2 min

ATMs & Pubs

Whether the ATM was inside the store or accessible from outside the store it was held that the ATM was still “occupied” by the retailer.

M & C Editorial Team

Jun 16
3 min

Is Your Pub Now H.M.O?

This applies to generally Victorian buildings that were once hotels or boarding houses that through the passing years became bed and brea...

M & C Editorial Team

Jun 11
2 min

Fair Rent Levels

Beyond doubt, we are all entering a period of trade that has no precedent. We just do not know how trade will return nor the extent to which

M & C Editorial Team

Jun 5
3 min

Social Media, GDPR & ‘Privacy’.

We are well aware of private Facebook groups dedicated to tenants and lessees only that have unfortunately seen a few Pub Co reps and BDMs

M & C Editorial Team

Jun 2
3 min

Looking Back On May 2020

May has been a month of measured progress towards stabilising how rents should be valued with COVID-19 being taken into account.

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