YENDA HOTEL A CONTENDER
After two decades at the wheel, Lance Gilbert has put up his beloved pub in mid-western NSW. Gilbert spent time in Yenda as a youth, his family operating a farm close to town. His mother had been brought up in
WALKER DOUGLAS AND CALLEN OFFER UP SINGLETON SOVEREIGNTY
The Walker Douglas Group has teamed up with Callen Hotels to offer the freehold going concern of Singleton’s handsome Imperial Hotel. The ‘Impy’ Singleton overlooks main drag John Street, just off the New England Highway through town, around an hour’s
PRIVATE BUYER SNAPS UP HARBOUR VIEW
The freehold Harbour View Hotel has sold to a private buyer thought to be looking at its real estate prospects in Sydney’s historic The Rocks. A high net worth individual believed to be from the provedore sector has paid close
A FRIEND IN HAND IS YOUNG AGAIN
Former Wallaby Bill Young has resumed Glebe legend the Friend In Hand, buying back from long-term owners the Byrne family. William Kevin Young was a loose-head prop during the golden era of Australian rugby, playing 46 tests over a six-year
WOOLWORTHS OUTLINE ALH SALE
Woolworths has finally announced strategy to divest its contentious Hotels division, to be coupled with its key liquor division, leaving the future of Australia’s biggest drinks-hospitality group dithering. ASX-listed Woolworths (WOW) today released details of its plan to merge Endeavour
PADDINGTON’S CAPTAIN COOK SEEKS FRESH CANVAS
Jirsch Sutherland Insolvency Solutions has announced sale of the leasehold interest in Sydney’s historic Captain Cook Hotel, beside the stadiums in Paddington. The stately four-storey Captain Cook, built 1914, stands at the intersection of Flinders Street and Moore Park Road,
LAUNDY JUMPS TO OXFORD DRUMMOYNE
Arthur Laundy has won the race to Drummoyne’s big Oxford Hotel for circa $42 million, securing a deal in just two weeks from owner-operators Michael Wiggins and Joanne Cassar. Wiggins and Cassar bought the Oxford from Iris Group in 2015
CONTI UP FOR GRABS AS STELLAR GOES UNDER
The future of Sorrento’s majestic Continental Hotel is in the wind with the property reluctantly returning to market as developer Stellar winds up. Hotelier Julian Gerner moved to Sorrento, on the Mornington Peninsula, in 2013, with his wife, to start
ALH’S $45m REDEVELOPMENT OF THE PARKWAY
After considerable resistance, ALH will soon begin construction on its $45 million redevelopment of the Parkway Hotel, having cleared final hurdles. Back in 2015 the majority Woolworths-owned Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) submitted plans for a massive re-working of the
HAROLD PARK RACES TO MARKET
Famed comedy house and inner west local the Harold Park Hotel has come to market, boasting unbridled opportunity and a generous sale proposition. Built in the late naughties opposite what was the Harold Park Raceway, in Sydney’s Forest Lodge, four
