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
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
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
PENTAGON TAKES $30m EBC PORTFOLIO
The expanding Pentagon Group has fronted up over $30 million for EBC Leisure’s portfolio of three pubs in the blossoming apple isle. Unlisted pub vehicle EBC began moves last year to divest its pub interests, after more than a decade
KEARNEYS OFFER UP NEWCASTLE’S BEAUFORD
After more than 30 years on the job, Newcastle pub stalwarts the Kearney family have determined to depart their Beauford Hotel, in Mayfield. The two-storey red brick pub was built on a 1,473sqm block around 1924, dominating the corner of
HUNT SEEKS BUYER FOR THE KENT
Central coast pub doyens the Hunt family have put to market their high-performing The Kent, offering up one of the biggest NSW hotel businesses north of Sydney, amid Newcastle’s ongoing renaissance. Built 1924, The ‘Royal’ Kent dominates a corner of
50-YEAR PUBLICANS BID FAREWELL TO SUBIACO
After a half-century, Michael and Judy Monaghan, and partners, are selling the stately Subiaco Hotel in western Perth. The multi-storey Victorian hotel on Hay Street in the upmarket Perth suburb of Subiaco was built in the gold rush days of
