KICKON SETS SIGHTS ON QLD’S OLDEST PUB

Craig Shearer’s Kickon Group has taken another new prize in the Grand Dame of Cleveland, bringing plans for a multi-million-dollar renovation, and a familiar face partner. Built 1851, the Grand View Hotel began life as Cleveland House, before being renamed

SAVIC SCORES ANOTHER GONG, WITH IMG

Veteran corporate hotelier Steve Savic has teamed up with the players behind IMG Hotels to purchase the tired Mittagong Hotel in the NSW southern highlands, with big plans. Built in the last few years of the 1800s, the three-storey Mittagong

STEEL CITY’S THE DEL TO SELL

Newcastle favourite the Delany Hotel has been put to market, amid the ongoing local construction boom and big-ticket sales. Known affectionately by locals as ‘The Del’, the stately two-storey hotel was built in 1924 and occupies a 1,685sqm site on

ENDEAVOUR Q1 RESULTS HERALD STRONG REBOUND IN PUBS

Endeavour Group has released its Q1 trading figures for FY23, reporting “accelerated” sales in its fleet of pubs and growth in retail, compared with pre-COVID levels. Australia’s largest pub operator and liquor retailer, the ASX-listed Endeavour Group (ASX:EDG), detailed group

SILVER SCREEN PUB PUTS UP THE SIGN

High-octane outback legend the Silverton Hotel is bursting back to market, as its septuagenarian gatekeepers look to new distant horizons. Silverton is iconic Australian red earth country, more than 12 hours’ drive west of Sydney. The town of just 48

UNION JACK HOISTED TO MARKET

The good-time Union Jack Hotel and backpackers in Cairns have come to market, as the passive owner looks to downsize for retirement. A public house was built on the site in the tropical Far North Queensland town in 1926, known

NED KELLY STICKS UP PUB IN WESTON

After a couple of crazy years and several more acquisitions, Ned Kelly and gang are getting out of their Criterion Hotel in the lower Hunter Valley prairie of Weston. Sitting tall on a 910sqm block, the pub operates under a

ALH GOLD ON OFFER IN ADELAIDE

A private family has listed two blue-chip ALH-tenanted pubs in Adelaide, as investor interest in hospitality assets shows little sign of slowing.  The Highbury Hotel, and Village Tavern in Golden Grove, count a combined landholding of 19,818sqm, and both hold

LONG-HELD ANCIENT BRITON HEADS TO MARKET

Glebe’s landmark Ancient Briton Hotel has been listed as the pub real estate market begins to ease, following one of the most transactional years in NSW on record. Prominently perched on a high-profile corner of Bridge Street and Glebe Point Road,

LAUNDY NABS HUNTS HOTEL CASULA

Pub king Arthur Laundy has picked up the sprawling Hunts Hotel in Casula, less than six months after the record-setting sale in the precinct of the Crossroads Hotel. Hunts is located directly opposite the big Crossroads, which sold to Nelson