VACANT HOTELS

With the current closure (temporary or permanent) of many hotels in London and the South East there are serious concerns about how long it will take for hotel bookings to recover. Depending on the specific hotel and its location this is likely to take up to 3 years. Hoteliers considering strategies for preserving the value and commercial viability of their vacant hotels can significantly reduce their costs in the short term by bringing in PGP guardians to occupy their premises as their tempora....

KEY WORKER PROPERTY GUARDIANS

Our company, PGP, provides affordable temporary accommodation to key workers and low paid professionals in the London area. We specialise in creating safe, welcoming temporary homes for our #pgpcommunity by breathing life back into otherwise vacant commercial or residential property, which we look after carefully until future plans are decided. PGP has always given priority to key workers to become property guardians and as we have all seen, particularly in recent times, their importance to ea....

SUMMER 2020 - SQUATTERS AND ILLEGAL RAVE...

With the super weather over the last few weeks and pent up frustrations from lockdown among various groups spilling over onto our streets through illegal raves and unauthorised festival-type gatherings, it would appear that summer has arrived and so has a new wave of familiar issues for owners of vacant buildings. Squatter incidents are increasing across the UK partly driven by the financial pressure many renters have experienced meaning they can no longer afford to pay for their accommodation ....

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY RETURNING TO A NEW N...

With many commercial properties, from officesand retail stores to pubs and hotels, remaining empty, property owners will very soon need to start looking at how to repurpose assets that aren’t making money right now and may not again when things return to a “new normal”. After the lockdown lifts and the COVID 19 crisis has subsided, commercial property owners with vacant buildings who have the means and the foresight to think beyond cost cutting around their property portfolio will be look....

CORONAVIRUS UPDATES

At PGP, we understand how the ongoing fight against Coronavirus has impacted the way most of us go about our day to day lives and carry out our work. The crisis has forced many of us to reassess the way we do most things and it is this ability to adapt and keep going which will see us through this time. PGP are in a front line role looking after vacant property and managing buildings housing key workers in London.. We remain fully operational visiting properties and our team is here to assist....

PRIORITY ACCOMMODATION FOR KEY WORKERS: ...

Dear Client, contact, friend or associate, As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds PGP are supporting the front line of the fight to defeat the virus. Around one third of our property guardians are key workers in the London taking on the huge challenge of keeping the capital running during these extraordinary times.. With transport into London being severely restricted for the next few months, we have already received nearly 2,000 requests for temporary accommodation in March. PGP are fully operation....

REMOVING SQUATTERS FROM NON-RESIDENTIAL ...

One of the most common problems that our clients come to us with is when they need to remove squatters from their vacant buildings or land. Since squatting in residential properties was criminalised groups of squatters and activists have been targeting commercial (non-residential) buildings. Some are looking for place to live and others are occupying vacant property illegally as a protest or for other purposes. The last thing property owners want is the stress and expense of a legal action to ....

ARSON ATTACKS ON VACANT BUILDINGS

In January 2019 there have been a shocking number of arson attacks reported in the news. Fires that were started deliberately last month ripped through vacant NHS buildings in Bedfordshire, a former night club property in Newcastle, the South London storage depot of a fashion designer who lost over £200,000 worth of his London Fashion Week work, Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox’s family’s farm property and the inside of a high rise building in Brighton. In one Hertfordshire town alone there were five ....