Real Estate

SALE AND LEASEBACK GROWTH PLANS FOR FRANCIS

Posted on August 18th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Melbourne-based Francis Venues is executing a sale-and-leaseback on its recently acquired Kings Head Tavern in South Hurstville, offering a freehold for an investor and growth capacity for the group. Situated on a 1,334sqm corner of a major intersection of Kings

BELLS RINGS FOR SAXON GROUP

Posted on August 18th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
A group led by ex-CUB CEO Peter Filipovic has broken the Victorian gaming drought, buying a rare freehold going concern in the institutional Bells Hotel of South Melbourne. Bells is a landmark pub on a commanding corner of the busy

PUBLIC SELL-DOWN CONTINUES AT CLIFTON

Posted on August 15th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
The elegant Clifton Hotel in Melbourne’s east is being sold by receivers out of Jon Adgemis’ floundering Public Hospitality portfolio, offering a rare property and hospitality play in the southern capital. Public Hospitality was formed in 2021 by the former

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE RENOVATION STRATEGY

Posted on August 15th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
In recent years the processes for pub renovation and development, particularly in New South Wales, have become conflated with consultants, besieged with bureaucracy, and laden with expensive and time-consuming traps for young gamers. This a story about pub development. Advancement.

HUNTERS CATCH GALLAGHER’S TERRIGAL

Posted on August 13th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Gallagher and Co have consolidated back to the capital, passing their large-format Terrigal Hotel to locals the Hunter family’s Hunter Hotel Group. One of the most prominent venues on the Central Coast, it occupies a large site of roughly 4K

ASHMONT INN’S MARKET DEBUT

Posted on August 13th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Wagga Wagga’s Ashmont Inn Hotel has been listed for the first time in its history in what is likely to be one of the most anticipated and keenly contested regional pub offerings of the year in NSW. The Inn was

PICK A BOX AN EASY CHOICE

Posted on August 13th, 2025 by Jane Louise
Rural Queensland’s immaculate Sadlier’s Waterhole and Pickabox Motel (Sadlier’s) in Morven is for sale by vendor Allicam P/L, headed by commercial property developer Pat Dunne. The 3-acre property boasts a single-storey Queenslander-style hotel offering hearty pub meals alongside twenty-two well-maintained

REILLY LETS LOOSE THE COCKATOO

Posted on August 11th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Ray Reilly has listed his inner west icon the White Cockatoo Hotel as the group progresses with portfolio rejuvenation. A 30-year industry veteran, Reilly bought the three level pub in 2017, then known as the West Village, continuing an expansion

GAME INN AT MELTON

Posted on August 11th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
A private investor is offering up the freehold or tenancy of the vacant Gamekeepers Inn in Bonnie Brook, north-west of Melbourne CBD. The Inn is an English-inspired tavern and function venue providing a large open plan ground floor, with indoor-outdoor

SYDNEY’S STONEWALL SOLD TO US-BASED PRIDE HOLDINGS

Posted on August 11th, 2025 by Jane Louise
Gay icon the Stonewall Hotel, on Sydney’s Oxford Street, has recently been acquired for an undisclosed amount by US-based hospitality company Pride Holdings Group (PHG). The LGBTQIA+ multi-level venue has been running for twenty-eight years and is known worldwide for