On behalf of a family property company, we were instructed to report on the upcoming rent review of a restaurant in the affluent Hertfordshire market town of Berkhamsted.

Our research led us to believe that there was a very good argument for a rental uplift in the outstanding 2022 review as well as the upcoming 2027 review. A deal was therefore structured to settle both the outstanding and forthcoming reviews, whilst also agreeing a reversionary lease meaning greater security of income for the landlord and securing the site for the restaurant chain for the foreseeable future.

On behalf of a private investor we have recently completed the letting of the former Three store on Wembley High Road to The Sushi Co, a “Grab and Go” Sushi restaurant chain with 30 stores in Greater London and the south-east.

After being recommended to the client by another agent, we undertook a wide reaching marketing campaign where good interest was received and multiple offers were generated, resulting in a rent being agreed that was 30% ahead of the previous rent.

On behalf of a private investor, we have recently sold the freehold of a prime high street property in the popular London suburb of East Ham.

The property was let to Paddy Power on the ground floor, with the upper parts comprising 2 x 2 bedroom flats, both let on AST’s.

Multiple bids were received demonstrating a good appetite for quality properties in popular London suburbs, and the sale was completed to a family property company.

On behalf of a developer client, we have recently acquired the freehold of a former chemist with vacant possession in the affluent London suburb of Putney.

Located in a busy local parade immediately off the A205 South Circular and in close proximity to a mix of local retailers and national multiple occupiers including Tesco Express, Ladbrokes and Brewers Decorator Centres, the property was secured by our client amidst competitive bidding.

An agreement For Lease was exchanged with a national multiple retailer during the agreed acquisition due diligence period, and the client is now in the process of undertaking works to both the shop unit and a vacant 2 bed flat above to prepare the property ready for occupation.

Similar assets are always sought so please contact me with any similar opportunities.

In an off market transaction, we have recently acted for a family trust in the sale of a long leasehold interest of part of the former Carluccio’s restaurant in Windsor.

The property had been vacant since Carluccio’s went into administration in 2020 and was located where the Windsor Yard Shopping Centre met the Royal Station Shopping Centre.

The interest was sold to the Fund owners of the shopping centres who have amalgamated the interest into their existing ownership, and have let the entire property to Megans.

WPC recently acted on behalf of a Channel Island Based Trust in the rent reviews of the M&S Simply Food in East Dulwich and the Co-Op and Papa Johns Pizza in Weymouth. It is always nice to retain an involvement in properties for clients throughout their ownership, having acquired the Weymouth property off market for them in 2018 and having had some involvement in the East Dulwich block for the developer before my client bought the property from them.