HARBOUR VIEW HOTEL LOOKS TO MARKET

For the first time in 20 years, the handsome Harbour View Hotel in Sydney tourist mecca The Rocks has come to market. The HVH is one of the few freehold hotels in The Rocks, with most titles held by the

NINDIGULLY TOPS SQCT HONOUR ROLL

Pioneering publican Steve Burns has been honoured by Southern Queensland Country Tourism with title of Best Outback Pub for his transformation of the remote Nindigully. Found 500 kilometres west and a little south of Brisbane, the Nindigully Pub, built 1864,

SYDNEY’S ART DECO PUBS

Peter Sheridan has compiled for the first time, a photographic and historic reflection on the Art Deco influence and architecture embedded in historic Australian pubs.  Extract from Sydney Art Deco by Peter Sheridan. It is extraordinary how many pubs there

IRIS LANDS ALH’S CAMBRIDGE TAVERN FOR $56m

Sam Arnaout’s Iris Group has snapped up another massive Sydney pub, securing the freehold operation of ALH’s high-performing Cambridge Hotel in Fairfield for $56 million. Still celebrating last month’s milestone acquisition of Manly’s The Steyne, Iris continues its rapid portfolio

VALE PAUL IRVIN

This week the Australian hotel industry mourns the loss of an icon of the past half-century, with the passing of NSW and Queensland great, Paul Irvin. Paul Michael Irvin was born in Maroubra on 15 September 1927. His father died

ILGA DISCIPLINARY HEARING ON ALH & PUBLICAN CONVICTED

ILGA has announced the conviction of the former operator of Kings Cross’ Dollhouse, and disciplinary hearing against two ALH pubs over serious gaming breaches. In March, the regulators handed down a lifetime ban to Ulysses Flevotomos for activities at Potts

OSCARS BUILDS ON INNER WEST EMPIRE

Oscars Hotels has snapped up another inner west landmark, taking title to the freehold going concern of Parramatta Road icon the Empire Hotel, in Annandale. Built circa 1890 for Tooth’s & Co, the three-storey Empire, particularly its façade, was refashioned

PORTERS BUILD FUTURE AT PLAINLAND PUB

The dedicated and long-serving Porter family has doubled the footprint of Porters Plainland Hotel with a $7 million development to deliver a dream more than a decade in the making. The Porter family bought the big Plainland, on a sprawling

GOOD TIMES AS INGHAM-MYERS DIVEST NEW ENGLAND

Brett Nielson and Steve Forbes have taken their newly-formed Good Times Industries west to Armidale, picking up ‘The Newie’ as the Ingham-Myers' exit the region. Nielson is long-time owner of the Glengarry Castle Hotel in Redfern, where he used to

OXFORD HOTEL DRUMMOYNE BACK TO MARKET

Private hoteliers Michael Wiggins and Joanne Cassar have put up the big corner Oxford Hotel in Drummoyne, in a rare opportunity for Sydney’s tightly-held gaming market. Wiggins and Cassar have owned a string of pub operations, divesting their Royal Exhibition