Real Estate

2015 pub market starts hot with another Iris Group purchase

Posted on February 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The Sydney pub market has jumped into 2015, with several quick sales including yet another Iris Group purchase – Riverwood’s Napoleons Hotel. In the Western gaming heartland, Napoleons is the latest of a string of acquisitions for the rapidly growing

Red-hot HPI snatches two blue-ribbon Queensland pubs

Posted on January 30th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Two quick purchases by one of the country’s best-performing hotel property owners has set the tone for a hot year in the investment market. After a successful IPO in 2013, Hotel Property Investments (HPI) – the freeholder spin-off of re-structured

Pubs benefiting from development wave: CBRE

Posted on January 21st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
CBRE Hotels offices around Australia say pubs will benefit in both trade and value from the wave of development activity taking place around the country. With property sales and developments in Melbourne and Perth reaching new levels of activity, the opportunities

Country pubs need good food too

Posted on January 21st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A Gippsland publican has enjoyed a big turnaround at his latest pub, and lauds the value of quality tucker and good beer. Taking over the Meeniyan Hotel last June, new owners the Willcocks were planning a new food and beer