Agency

We may be a small company but we are used to closing big deals. Whether it’s the purchase of a single landmark pub or the disposal of a whole chain, size isn’t a problem for us.

These are some of the larger agency instructions we’ve dealt with in recent years:

  • The Hog in the Pound, Oxford Street – under our care, this became the most expensive pub sold in London, at more than £10 million
  • Project Blue – the purchase of 10 freeholds for Capital Pub Company in a package worth more than £30 million
  • Front Page Pub group – disposal to Food and Fuel in 2006
  • Mitchells & Butlers – sale of 18 freehold properties in London
  • Fullers – bought four freehold London pubs we were selling on behalf of private investors for £9 million
  • Acquisition of three central London pubs for more than £8.5 million for a client

Investing for the future

Whether you want to acquire a high-profile going concern or dispose of an underperforming property ripe for development, we have the contacts, expertise and discretion needed to manage the deal, however complex or sensitive.

These are a few of the hundreds of sales we’ve dealt with:

  • Spiky Hedgehog, Battersea – snapped up by a developer who replaced it with an apartment block
  • The Pig’s Ear in Chelsea and The Britannia near Canary Wharf – both bought up by well-known footballers
  • Star & Garter at Putney – the iconic waterside pub that marks the start of the annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
  • Hart’s Boatyard in Kingston – acquired on behalf of the Plc tenant for more than £3 million
  • The Railway at Kew – so sought-after that it sparked a bidding war
  • Bar Latina, Tottenham – sold to Tottenham Hotspurs football club for more than £750,000
  • The Pigeons, Stratford, East London – sold for close to £1 million to a developer, who is leasing the ground floor to Tesco
  • Former Yates’s Wine Lodge in Guildford – bought by an investor and leased to Tesco, who will use the lower floors as a convenience store, and a music school

Going off piste – hotels, restaurants and clubs

As licensed leisure specialists, our remit extends well beyond the traditional pub. Comedy clubs, boutique hotels, chain restaurants – you name it, we’ve handled the sale.

Our non-pub higlights include:

  • Bar Centro in Brighton – sold on behalf of Laurel Pub Company for just over £2 million for conversion into a Hotel du Vin
  • Kew Gardens Hotel in West London – off-market acquisition for Capital Pub Company
  • Duck Inn pub and restaurant, Newney Green, Essex – sold for Shepherd Neame to a restaurateur off an asking price of £550,000
  • A Bar 2 Far, Tunbridge Wells – sold to Wagamama
  • The Corner Store and Funny Side comedy club in Covent Garden – acquired for the Gondola Group, who will convert it into a Byron hamburger outlet