HARVEST GROW WITH THIRD TAMWORTH PUB

The team behind Tamworth’s Pig & Tinder Box and Court House Hotel have taken over the music-town’s “premier live entertainment venue”, the Albert Hotel. Around five hours north-west of Sydney, Tamworth is a community of over 60,000 residents that swells

TWO NEW OWNERS ENTER BIG-TRADING CROSSROADS HOTEL

The Macintosh family has parted with their beloved Crossroads Hotel at Narrabri, having rebuilt and expanded upon the 1861 pub. After being closed for many years, the hard-working family of five orchestrated every aspect of the old building’s restoration, from

JDA TAKES FULL OWNERSHIP AT AUCTION OF PADSTOW PARK

Following an international EOI campaign, the Padstow Park Hotel has sold under the hammer to incumbent operators JDA Hotels. The Padstow was purchased in 2014 by White & Partners for $13.7 million from Coles’ Spirit Hotels, with John Feros’ JDA

WINEMAKER TEMPTED INTO LEURA’S ELEGANT ALEXANDRA

A former publican turned winemaker is back in the game after snapping up Leura’s beautiful Alexandra Hotel, in the lower Blue Mountains, outside of Sydney. Once upon a time, Greg Perrett was proprietor of the Bellbird Hotel in the Hunter

INSTANT PORTFOLIO FOR MYSTERY BUYER TO MOUNT ISA

Two adjacent pubs in mega-mining town Mount Isa have sold in one deal from one private group to another. The Red Earth and Isa Hotels have been part of the stable of a well-known Brisbane-based hotel group, sharing adjoining boundaries

TOOHEY MOVES IN TO RESCUE THE RETREAT

After heading to market as a vacant possession to optimise the buyer pool for its potential redevelopment, the storied Retreat Hotel has been bought to stay a pub for a long time yet. Listing in January, the modest Retreat is

AVC CONTINUES GROWTH VIA O’BRIENS AND PRINCE ALFRED HOTEL

[caption id="attachment_12584" align="alignright" width="178"] Prince Alfred Hotel[/caption] The acquisitive Australian Venue Company is extending its working relationship with the O’Brien family, taking on the lease at the Prince Alfred Hotel in Richmond’s bustling Church Street. Australian Venue Company (AVC) –

SALE & LEASEBACK FOR COOKE-BEAUMONT AT BLAZING STUMP

Peter Cooke and Stephen Beaumont have successfully divested title of their big-format Blazing Stump in another example of the demand for strong commercial assets in Victoria. Occupying 1,780sqm on a 5,708sqm site in the heart of Wodonga, on the Victoria-NSW

REDCAPE’S $25m RETURN FLIGHT TO WATTLE GROVE

Australia’s most prominent gaming group has taken another step toward IPO aspirations with a return to Wattle Grove and acquisition from the Malouf family. In 2010 Hedley Leisure – the ancestral base of Redcape Hotel Group – sold the western

LAWLER BUYS FIRST PUB, HARVEY-PILON HEAD TO AMAROO

Public House Management Group CEO Ben Lawler has taken the plunge with his first title in Dubbo’s Commercial Hotel, as vendors Brett Harvey and Greg Pilon pick up a local freehold. Around five hours’ drive north-west of Sydney, Dubbo is