Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

FLOWER GROWS SETTLERS WITH A MOTOR INN

Posted on August 24th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

Veteran hotelier Alistair Flower has boosted his accommodation footprint in Port Macquarie with purchase of the adjacent and complementary Macquarie Barracks Motor Inn. The motor inn is set on a large lot beside arterial Hastings River Drive, offering 37

AVC TAKES SOLOTEL’S THE BANK AND THE CLOCK

Posted on August 21st, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

Australian Venue Co has signed for more Solotel pubs, taking Surry Hills institution The Clock and Newtown staple The Bank in the latest investor-backed deal in Sydney’s highly active market. Amalgamated Hotels P/L, freehold owner of the pubs, was founded

THOMAS HOTELS’ PLANS FOR NEW CROWS NEST PUB

Posted on August 21st, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

Chris Thomas is homing in on potential in Sydney’s north shore, submitting plans for a new pub in the centre of Crows Nest, to be called the Royal Crow Hotel. Thomas Hotels operates two-dozen hotels across greater Sydney, from Parramatta’s

PORT KEMBLA’S COMMERCIAL SETS SALE

Posted on August 19th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

The Despotovski family are calling time on the game, listing their large-format Commercial Hotel in the middle of the commercial and burgeoning harbourside precinct of Port Kembla. For the past 38 years the hotel, positioned on a 1,818sqm landholding on

SHOALHAVEN STAR STAYS LOCAL

Posted on August 19th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

The Star Hotel of Milton has kept it local, as long-term owners the Stone family pass the keys to experienced Shoalhaven residents the Kapetanos family. Fronting the Princes Highway on a 923sqm plot in the heart of the coastal town,

FAMILY LISTS PEEL INN AFTER 165 YEARS

Posted on August 17th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

Multi-generational owners have sent to market the historic Peel Inn Hotel, in gold country, more than a century and a half after lady luck passed it to them. Occupying a central village site of 2,128sqm, the Inn was built

TABCORP BUOYANT AS PUBS BOUNCE

Posted on August 17th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

More pubs are removing their TABs as Tabcorp pursues its new format based in ‘less is more’ and the company sees the drop-outs as part of the cost of business. For decades TABs have been the default retail betting solution,

ORANGE GROVE IN LILYFIELD IN NEW HANDS

Posted on August 14th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

Veteran hotelier and very long-term owner Bruce Hedditch has sold his Orange Grove Hotel in thriving Lilyfield to industry newcomers. The OG Hotel stands on a substantial 934sqm corner of Balmain Rd, which it has occupied since 1959, since it

GAMING EXPO WRAPS IN POSITIVE SIGN FOR SECTOR

Posted on August 14th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

The Australasian Gaming Expo (AGE) took place this week at ICC Sydney, representing the largest gaming expo in the southern hemisphere and seeing growth indicative of industry trajectory. Spread across 19,000sqm of ICC floorspace for three days, the event was

MITCH ‘RE-EMERGED’ AS MODERN LOCAL

Posted on August 12th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney

Stoic suburban The Mitch of Alexandria has adopted a new but classic community-led approach under Phil Anderson’s Rum Rebellion Hospitality Group. Built 1920, first trading as the Balaclava Hotel, the pub set on a corner of Mitchell Road was long