Real Estate

100 BURGERS GROUP SEEKS SOLUTION FOR BOWEN HILLS

Posted on January 23rd, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Thumping food-based pub Welcome to Bowen Hills in Brisbane is testing the market, as its Melbourne-based owners tune their interstate business model. The curiously named Welcome to Bowen Hills (WBH) represents the second instalment of the concept by 100 Burgers

THE TAPHOUSE BROTHERS TAKE ON AVC’S THE OXFORD

Posted on January 21st, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The brothers Thorpe are leveraging their boutique beverage brains trust with expansion into and of AVC’s former Drink n’ Dine pub, The Oxford, at Petersham. The hyper-expansive Dixon Group snapped up the collection of three venues owner-operated by Jaime Wirth

BUSH PUB OF THE YEAR ON OFFER

Posted on January 18th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The reigning Best Bush Pub of NSW has come to market, as proud publicans Ash and Libby Walker look to consider their next challenge. The Armatree Hotel is in the heart of Orana district, around six hours’ drive north-west of

WHITTEN-PROUT ON THE ROAD TO GUNNEDAH

Posted on January 16th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The Gibbs’ have sold their Gunnedah Hotel in My Country to an expanding partnership of Daniel Whitten and Luke Prout. The best pub in one of the State’s rapidly growing towns, the Gunnedah is a big two-storey structure on 2,921sqm

ORANGE WHIP? RINGWOOD’S LATE-NIGHT VENUE ON OFFER

Posted on January 16th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The toast of Ringwood has come to market, as three partners offer up their pumping bar-nightclub Orange Whip. Overlooking the Maroondah Highway at Ringwood, 28 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD, the Orange Whip is a renowned late-night venue, operating

MANTLE EYES IPO FOR EXPANSIVE GROUP

Posted on January 16th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Hot on the heels of Redcape’s long-awaited IPO, Queensland pub king Godfrey Mantle has divulged plans toward floating his Mantle Group portfolio mid-2019. Mantle owns a string of successful Queensland operations, including five Pig 'n' Whistle pubs, one of which

FLOWER EXPANDS IN PORT AND LAKE CATHIE

Posted on January 14th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Celebrated community publican Alistair Flower has further expanded a growing portfolio with the purchase of the Lake Cathie Tavern, near his Port Macquarie haven. Current AHA National titleholder for Community Service & Achievement and winner again in 2018 at the

STOCKLAND BUILDING NEW TAVERN IN AURA MEGA-DEVELOPMENT

Posted on December 21st, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Large-scale developer Stockland has announced construction of a $6.5 million tavern, to be located in the heart of its massive Aura community, on the Gold Coast. Aura is the largest master-planned community ever built in Australia under single ownership, projected

ELEPHANT & CASTLE CHARGES TO MARKET

Posted on December 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The amply proportioned Elephant & Castle Hotel in Bathurst has come to market, trumpeting plenty of blue sky in Australia’s oldest inland settlement. Bathurst is around 200 kilometres north-west of Sydney, and one of the State’s strong regional hubs, experiencing

McCOYS PASS HOTEL BENNETT TO TURNERS

Posted on December 14th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The McCoy family have ended a 33-year tenure at their Hotel Bennett in Hamilton, divesting to former locals the Turners in a return to home. The McCoy family have owned pubs in Redfern and around NSW. John and Betty McCoy