Real Estate

SHORT PASSES ON THE REDFERN

Posted on October 8th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Marty Short’s Welcome Hospitality has divested the reinvented Redfern Hotel on the fringe of the Sydney CBD to a growing local group. Previously known as the Courthouse Hotel, it holds a prime city site on the corner of George and

BELLARINE LANDMARK HITS THE MARKET

Posted on October 8th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Landmark of Victoria's picturesque Bellarine Peninsula, the St Leonards Hotel & Motel, is for sale by private investors. St Leonards is on the eastern edge of the Peninsula, east of Geelong and around 1.5 hours’ drive south-west of Melbourne, around

ADGEMIS BANKRUPT AS PUBLIC GOES UNDER

Posted on October 3rd, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Jon Adgemis has surrendered the game, filing for bankruptcy as he is said to owe billions, Deutsche Bank takes control of his last five pubs, and a showdown with the ATO loomed in Federal Court. The former KPMG banker had

PARKVIEW SEES DAWES’ GATEWAY INTO SYDNEY

Posted on October 3rd, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Nathan Dawes’ Gateway Hotel Group has charged into Sydney, snapping up the Parkview Hotel ahead of its scheduled auction date. Image: Australian National University, Noel Butlin Archives Located in Sydney's burgeoning Alexandria corridor just south of the CBD, the hotel

UNIVERSAL GO MOKO FOR EXPANSION WEST

Posted on October 1st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Universal Hotels has taken another step in its expansion plans with acquisition of the top-performing Moko Hotel in Eastwood, from veteran hotelier Paul Dirou. Opening late 2014 as a modern Korean restaurant with a hotel licence, Moko has evolved into

MORETON BAY GREENLIGHTS VISIONARY $180M COMISKEY PROJECT

Posted on September 26th, 2025 by Jane Louise
The family-owned Comiskey Group has secured a land tender from Queensland’s City of Moreton Bay, proposing a $180 million Town Centre precinct in North Lakes. The 1.72-Ha site will be a selection of hospitality, lifestyle and leisure facilities, centring around

THE LARRIKIN OF BOWEN HEADS TO MARKET

Posted on September 26th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
After more than two decades at the helm, Bruce Hedditch cements retirement plans with a sale campaign on the iconic Larrikin Hotel in coastal northern Queensland. Bruce and Halina Hedditch came to the area in 2012 to operate the Larrikin for a

HUNT SHAKEUP USHERS HARRINGTON HOTEL

Posted on September 24th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
The waterfront Harrington Hotel of Harrington is being sold in the vibrant mid-north coast, marking the latest Hunt Hospitality venue on offer in a recent portfolio shakeup. The Harrington resides on an enviable 3,004sqm site with uninterrupted views of the

FEROS WINS GREEN LIGHT FOR BINGARA ACCOMMODATION

Posted on September 24th, 2025 by Jane Louise
Development approval has been granted to south-west Sydney’s Bingara Gorge Country Club for an accommodation precinct. An extension of the Club, the approximately 2,500sqm site that adjoins the Club in Bingara Gorge, Wilton, was purchased by Feros Group, who will

ETTAMOGAH HOTEL AND IP BEING SOLD

Posted on September 22nd, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
One of the most distinctive pubs in Australia, the original wonky-walled Ettamogah Hotel outside of Albury, is for sale together with its madcap Maynard cartoons glorifying bush life. The Ettamogah Hotel was built and opened in 1987, in Table Top,