Real Estate

WAUGH DOUBLES UP IN TAMWORTH

Posted on July 17th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Hotel veteran Ashton Waugh has expanded his cache of regional stalwarts with the purchase of Joe Maguire’s Tavern in Tamworth. The pub occupies a big 3,500sqm lot on main road Peel Street, incorporating a large bistro and commercial kitchen, beer

NEW-LOOK KENT ST HOTEL TIPPED TO ATTRACT

Posted on June 26th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Sydney publican Brett Strauss has taken on the new-opportunity Kent Street Hotel, beginning a fresh redesign and pitch to shifting markets beneath a host of changes above. Strauss is the proprietor of the Chippendale Hotel in the southern fringes of

SHAMROCK HOTEL LISTS FOR THE POTENTIAL

Posted on June 24th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The Shamrock Hotel in Toowoomba is back on the market, offering considerable upside as Queensland pubs wind up to a return to normal trade. Occupying a sizeable 3,253sqm block on Ruthven Street in the heart of town, the Hotel counts

GERRY NASS OFFERS UP ROBERT BURNS

Posted on June 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Custodian of the Collingwood talisman Robert Burns Hotel, Gerry Nass, has put out the sale shingle on the pub as he reaches three decades at the wheel and a post-pandemic turning point. Nass bought the leasehold interest at the RBH

SLY FOX DORE INTO ENMORE

Posted on June 19th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The recently departed Sly Fox of Enmore will live and breathe again under the wing of acquisitive inner-west publican Ged Dore, who has quickly jumped to a hattrick in the district. After trading for more than 16 years as a

SALE POSED FOR KING OF MANILLA

Posted on June 19th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The king of Manilla is on the market as long-serving publican Don McNeill prepares to “pass the baton”. The Imperial Hotel was built 1900 on a large 1,706sqm lot on the corner of Manilla and Market Streets, at the north

GREAT WESTERN SUCCUMBS TO COVID

Posted on June 17th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Despite recent high hopes to soon be back in the saddle and serving up good times, yesterday the time-honoured Great Western Hotel in Rockhampton announced it will not be reopening due to the pandemic shutdown and downturn. Established 1862, the

CESSNOCK’S ROYAL OAK IN RECEIVER SALE

Posted on June 15th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The regal Royal Oak Hotel Cessnock is for sale under instruction by forensic accountants, following a stoush with the ATO and massive tax bill. Doctor-publican John Harvey purchased the prominent two-storey brick pub in 2011, sharing resources with his dental

GREAT SOUTHERN PORTFOLIO SALE

Posted on June 12th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
After a quarter-century of local consolidation, the Murray family is selling up its portfolio including the Great Southern Hotel, in the south coast town of Eden. The family bought into Eden in 1984. The handsome two-storey Great Southern (GSH) enjoys

UNIVERSAL HOTELS LAND THE NEW THE MILL

Posted on June 10th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The Kospetas family’s Universal Hotels has won the race into the new pub below the latest high-end development in Bondi Junction, soon to be opening a new incarnation of The Mill. The former Mill Hill Hotel, on the corner of