PRENTICE GETTING OUT OF GATTON’S COMMERCIAL

Queensland hotelier Tony Prentice is lightening the portfolio, offering up the Commercial Hotel of Gatton after an unexpected 15 years. Built 1927, the Commercial is the pub “Where everyone knows your name” and one of the oldest in the Gatton-Laidley

MALOUFS GET SHEARER’S ARMS OVER THE LINE

Recognising the industry is back up and running, the new Malouf partnership has cemented the deal on their first Queensland operation in John Murphy and John Cornish’s Shearer’s Arms Hotel. The newly-formed North South Pub Co (NSPC) is Matthew Coorey

MOELIS TAKES TAYLOR SQUARE WITH KINSELAS

Moelis Australia has announced another big-ticket acquisition in Kinselas Hotel Darlinghurst – unlocking plans to create a consolidated hospitality precinct at Sydney’s iconic Taylor Square. Moelis Australia Limited (MOE:ASX) has exchanged contracts with the Kospetas family to buy Kinselas for

REDCAPE TAKE TWO MORE AS DELAWARE BOWS OUT

ASX-listed hotel giant Redcape has announced acquisition of both the Shafston Hotel at Kangaroo Point and Aspley Hotel in Aspley from Delaware North for $27.5 million. Delaware North is a US hospitality giant founded in 1915 that operates hundreds of

SOUTHERN SUNSHINE ON BOBBIE PEELS

Victorians are making hay in the sunshine of eased restrictions as opportunities emerge and the countdown to Christmas begins in earnest. This week brought the highly anticipated move to one patron per two square metres and no cap on numbers,

IRIS NABS BIGGEST BUY NARWEE HOTEL

Iris has executed the biggest sale of the year in the final weeks of 2020, taking the Ryan family’s long-held Narwee Hotel in Sydney’s south. The Narwee Hotel is a multi-storey suburban local on a big 3,370sqm block immediately opposite

BAROOGA SALE BODES REGIONAL APPETITE

The Barooga Hotel in the popular holiday resort town of Barooga has been sold to the Ratcliffs, continuing the market strength for quality regional operations. Stephen and Elizabeth Ratcliff are the proud new owners of the sole hotel in Barooga,

COVID RENO DEPRECIATION CLAIMS LOST

Amid a wave of rapidly executed renovations in response to pandemic conditions, many hotel owners are missing out on claiming their available depreciation deductions, according to an industry specialist. Hoteliers and commercial property owners most commonly underclaim on depreciation because

FOUR IN HAND WORTH THE PRICE FOR PARRAS

Paddington’s famed and once-hatted Four in Hand has been sold again, for $8.25 million, this time to well-known hotelier Colin M Parras. Previously the domain of celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge, under the ownership of Joe Saleh, the pub acclaimed for

KELLY & CO HIT PAYDIRT IN THE HUNTER

Ned Kelly and friends have struck again, swooping on the re-stapled Criterion Hotel in the wild Weston growth corridor of the Hunter Valley. The freehold has been owned by Sydney-based Peter Calligeros, owner-operator of Surry Hills’ Trinity Bar and both