Property

REDCAPE LOOKS SKYWARD THROUGH ORION

Posted on August 8th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Redcape has announced another big step in its expansion plans, with acquisition of the Orion Hotel in Springfield for around $30 million and another capital raise to fund further ambition. The Orion Hotel is within the Orion Springfield Central shopping

HARRIS NARVO VIEW EXPANSION WITH PANORAMA

Posted on August 8th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
The Gibbons family has divested their well-rounded Panorama Hotel Motel in Bathurst to the ‘famed’ and acclaimed partnership of Harris and Narvo. The Panorama is set on a high-profile bend in main drag Durham Street, adjacent to the Bathurst Showground.

BLACK RHINO BACK IN THE SUNSHINE

Posted on August 6th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Dave Tomsic’s Black Rhino Group has swooped on its fifth Queensland pub, snaring the large-format Hotel Hinchinbrook in Ingham. Around 100 kilometres north of Townsville, Ingham is a town on the Bruce Highway servicing local population approaching 5K residents, plus

MARLOW TAKES A WALKER DOONSIDE

Posted on August 1st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Western Sydney all-rounder the Doonside Hotel has been sold by Peter Walker to Jason Marlow, as he looks to bolster and further expand the family’s holdings. Built 1962, on a sprawling 7,278sqm plot within the Doonside retail and transport precinct,

NEW BEGINNINGS IN WALLSEND

Posted on August 1st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
A Newcastle publican is wrapping up business in Wallsend landmarks, divesting the Fire Station and offering up the Museum. The Fire Station Hotel resides atop a large commercial site on a corner of Nelson Street, in the east of town.

HEART OF COLLIE SELLS TO INTERSTATE NEWCOMER

Posted on July 21st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Popular destination of central western NSW, the Collie Hotel, has sold to a Melbourne-based new entrant to the industry. Established circa 1862 as the Marthaguy Hotel – a simple, roadside half-way house for travellers – the pub morphed into the

UNIVERSAL SWAPS NEWTOWN FOR LORD BOB

Posted on July 16th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Universal Hotels has exchanged its thumping Newtown Hotel for the iconic Lord Roberts in Darlinghurst, in a deal valued at around $20 million. The Newtown Hotel resides on a high exposure 700+sqm corner of the bustling King Street retail and

PUBLIC’S PADDO PUB SOLD

Posted on July 16th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Another of the distressed Public Hospitality portfolio has sold, seeing Paddington’s long-standing ‘Three Weeds’ going to an unnamed “private investment syndicate”. The former Rose, Shamrock and Thistle, more commonly known as Three Weeds, is one of the precinct’s historic pubs,

TOWN HALL HOTEL BALMAIN SELLS AT AUCTION

Posted on July 11th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Balmain’s beleaguered Town Hall Hotel is back, after selling this week to a ‘restitutional’ investor as the Public Hospitality portfolio flounders. The Town Hall Hotel was built in 1888 on a corner of arterial Darling Street, opposite the suburb’s actual

AVC PICKS UP HERVEY BAY ICON

Posted on July 11th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Fraser Coast favourite the Bayswater Bar & Grill in Hervey Bay has been sold to national operator Australian Venue Co, bringing the buzz to one of Queensland’s less frequently transacted hot spots. Positioned right on the water, the BB&G is