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Moss Bros Profits from Second Opinion Provided by Gilbert Evans
January 2012: Moss Bros was previously advised by one of the UK’s largest property advisors to accept a rental of £289,000 per annum on a high street shop in Guildford.
After undertaking its inspection, sifting through all of the relevant documentation and closely scrutinising the analysis of the comparables, Gilbert Evans advised Moss Bros that it [...]
The garden centre property market is in rude health
December 2011: Compared with the continuing austere outlook in the high street, garden centres have, on the whole, continued to trade well over the last twelve months. A great start to the year was sadly cut short by the weather. Overall conditions have been challenging but many centres have performed as well as last [...]
Gilbert Evans advises on sale of Fryer’s Garden Centre to Blue Diamond
October 2011: Gilbert Evans has advised Knutsford- based Fryer’s Garden Centre on the sale of its family-owned garden centre and award-winning rose growing business to Blue Diamond Garden Centres of Guernsey.
The 86,000 sq ft centre is located on a 19.5 acre site and was acquired for £2.7million.
Mike Gilbert, Partner and Head of Garden Centres at [...]
Gilbert Evans handles sale of Ullesthorpe Garden Centre
September 2011: Gilbert Evans has handled the sale of Ullesthorpe Garden Centre in Ullesthorpe, South Leicestershire to Palmers Garden Centre, Leicester. Gilbert Evans represented the vendor and the transaction marks the first acquisition undertaken by Palmers Garden Centre.
“This is a great opportunity for Palmers to establish a large destination garden centre as Ullesthorpe [...]
Gilbert Evans Exhibiting at GLEE 2011
August 2011: Gilbert Evans, the leading garden centre property advisor and the preferred supplier of property advice to the members of the HTA is once again exhibiting at GLEE this year.
“We have been involved in the majority of garden centre transactions over the last five years so it is vital for us to have [...]
Gilbert Evans instructed to acquire 10+ garden centres
August 2011: Gilbert Evans, the leading garden centre property adviser, has been instructed to identify and acquire a significant number of freehold and leasehold garden centres across the UK.
Mike Gilbert, head of the Gilbert Evans Garden Centre team explains:
“We are now actively searching for garden centres with a £500,000 turnover and upwards. The identity of [...]
Gilbert Evans Lets Twickenham Retail Space to former F1 Driver’s Organic Farm Shop
July 2011: Gilbert Evans has let a retail unit in Twickenham, Middlesex to the UK’s leading biodynamic and organic farm Laverstoke Park, owned by former F1 driver Jody Sheckter. Laverstoke Park has recently opened the doors of its first shop, outside of the farm’s Hampshire location. The 1,180 sq ft shop is located at [...]
Gilbert Evans Donates to RICS Pakistan Flood Appeal
June 2011: Four visitors to this year’s Royal Ascot were lucky winners at the worldwide RICS Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) charity event held last year in aid of the DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal and had the opportunity this week to enjoy their win of four Grandstand tickets, donated by Gilbert Evans, at the centre piece [...]
Significant Rental Savings Achieved – Zoning Basis Dismissed As Primary Method of Valuing an Irregular Shaped Shop
July 2011: Gilbert Evans has convinced an Independent Expert that when valuing an irregular shaped shop, a commercial overview must be taken to check if the answer produced by a particular valuation approach would actually be achievable in the market place and is therefore realistic.
Gilbert Evans was instructed by Signet Group to undertake [...]
Leasehold Garden Centres in demand… featured in Horticulture Week
June 2011: Mike Gilbert from Gilbert Evans has reported that there is growing evidence of an increasing appetite from garden centre operators for leasehold centres. The main driver for this emerging demand is that leased garden centres represent both value and an opportunity to acquire centres for relatively little capital outlay. Two characteristics [...]