Real Estate

ARANGIO AND GURR LIST WYONG’S ROYAL

Posted on August 26th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney
Business partner publicans Frank Arangio and Pat Gurr have listed their expanded Royal Hotel in Wyong – one of the key regional centres on the central coast north of Sydney. The Royal overlooks arterial road the Pacific Highway, on a

CALLIGEROS CALLS TIME AT THE BELLEVUE

Posted on August 24th, 2026 by Clyde Mooney
Calligeros Hotel Group has listed an icon of Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the Bellevue Hotel, on the boundary of the affluent suburbs of Paddington and Woollahra. The thumping two-storey pub – known locally as ‘The Bellie’ – has been on the

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

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

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