Real Estate

STRADBROKE ISLAND HOTEL AND RETAIL ON OFFER

Posted on January 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The idyllic Stradbroke Island Beach Hotel has come to market, as the dominant hospitality business on the Queensland tourist destination. The Hotel, known as Straddie Day Spa for its resort-style facilities, occupies a big 3,267sqm headland site at Point Lookout

FERMANIS’ RETREAT TO AUCTION

Posted on January 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Abbotsford’s storied Retreat Hotel will go under the hammer as a vacant freehold, to optimise the buyer pool for the development potential site. Built in 1915, the modest and aptly named Retreat is a local landmark, on the corner of

POOLE’S KEVINGTON HOTEL HEADS TO MARKET

Posted on January 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
One of Victoria’s most history-smacked pubs has come to market, offering riverside acres in a former goldrush town. Built in 1862 as Garrett's Beer House, the Kevington Hotel is the last surviving pub of many that sprang up following the

PUBLICAN GROUP SINKS INTO RECEIVERSHIP DESPITE DIXON SWOOP

Posted on January 17th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Despite divesting its entire portfolio late 2017, the beleaguered Publican Group has been put into voluntary liquidation. The cashed-up Dixon Hotel Group – since rebranded to Australian Venue Co (AVC) – bought the clutch of nine Publican Group venues in

DIXON GROUP REBRANDS AND BUYS UP

Posted on January 15th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Dixon Hospitality Group has hit 2018 running, with a new group name and deals for two new northern venues into the stable. The Victorian-based hotel group fronted by former Spotless director Bruce Dixon has rebranded to Australian Venue Co (AVC),

IRIS’ MASSIVE KINGS CROSS DEVELOPMENT AT THE BOURBON

Posted on December 20th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Sam Arnaout’s expansive Iris Capital has lodged plans for a massive residential and hospitality development in Kings Cross to replace The Bourbon and Empire Hotels and surrounds. Around the group’s 2015 purchase of The Bourbon from Chris Cheung, Arnaout orchestrated

$4.4m FOR EMPTY BRUNSWICK PUB

Posted on December 18th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
An unnamed buyer has secured the blank canvas freehold of Melbourne’s promising East Brunswick Hotel at auction for $4.4 million. The former CUB pub on the corner of Lygon and Albert Streets has seen several incarnations over the years, and

DASH TO MARKET AS RAILWAY PICKS UP STEAM

Posted on December 13th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The Dash family are looking to part with their Warragul stalwart, the reinvented Railway Hotel. The family has a history in pubs, previously owning Warragul’s O&H Hotel, and currently freehold of the Dava Hotel in Mount Martha. The family will

OXFORD HOTEL MEANS TAYLOR SQUARE HATTRICK FOR UNIVERSAL

Posted on December 11th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Universal Hotels has landed a trifecta in Taylor Square with acquisition of Pelathon’s Darlinghurst icon, the Oxford Hotel. The pub on the corner of the eponymous Oxford Street and Bourke Street went through several name changes and minor geographical repositioning

KERR LISTS THE BEAUFORT AT CLARE CASTLE

Posted on December 11th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
After half a decade at the helm, Dave Kerr is passing the baton on his Carlton pub, The Beaufort. Kerr took on operation of the Clare Castle Hotel over five years’ ago, and brought it into the twenty-first century in