Why buy a pub or licensed business?

We believe it to still be a great place to work and operate your own business. Remember it can and should be lots of fun where all your living expenses can be covered including being resident within one of the counties finest historic properties bringing up your family mostly ring fenced from inflation and recession, when did you last see a licensee buy a lamp bulb or toilet roll?

Your family will be right there with you with everyone benefiting from your new found freedom without the threat of redundancy or the boss hanging over you. If you work hard you reap the rewards of your efforts. Yes it can be long hours but in the most you will be surrounded by people “like you” with similar interests and backgrounds, in your pub because they want to be there, enjoying “the craic”, good ale, great food and a warming fire.

The question we most get asked is, do we go for a leased pub or freehold? Well there’s no correct answer to this as it depends upon personal circumstances and aspirations. Freeholds are the holy grail of the industry as you buy the property brick by brick and the goodwill by your efforts, however leasing is an “easy in(n)” with a low cost of entry and potentially high disposable profits. Then the decision - Tied, Part Tied or Free of Tie (FOT). We say to clients that the thing that matters are the bottom line profits. We know of plenty of tied leased operators who make a cool £100,000 plus out of their pubs, that’s £2,000 per week having lived for free out of the business. This places these publicans within the top 1% of earners within the country.

The experienced, helpful team at GA Select and our associates are here to help you on your journey in whichever way possible.

Our Associates

We are on first name terms with everyone within our network of professional associates  and have worked with some of them for over three decades, they are all committed and prepared to give our clients as much time as necessary to ensure that the job in hand gets done and done well. It is important for them to understand our objectives and our clients worlds.