Real Estate

ANOTHER NEW HORIZON FOR UNIVERSAL AT ENFIELD

Posted on October 20th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Just weeks after expanding west into Eastwood, the family-owned Universal Hotels has picked up thriving inner west pub the Enfield Hotel from the De Angelis family. Gallagher Hotel Management (GHM) relaunched the hotel as the Irish-themed PJ’s Enfield in 2013.

DAWES TAKES GATEWAY INTO BALLINA WITH HENRY ROUS

Posted on October 17th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Nathan Dawes’ growing Gateway Hotel Group has notched up another, taking the stoic Henry Rous Tavern in northern NSW. Ballina is an attractive coastal town of around 47k residents that is geographically the gateway to the popular Byron Bay lifestyle

VETERANS LIST UNDERCOOKED WOOLI

Posted on October 15th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
The large-format Wooli Hotel on the idyllic NSW north coast is being offered for sale for the first time in decades, by retiring veterans. The hotel motel is at the centre of North St in the coastal and riverside town

STANTON’S GRAND VIEW IN THE MOUNTAINS

Posted on October 10th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
The statuesque Hotel Grand View at Wentworth Falls has sold to growing hotelier Trevor Stanton, with plans to make it more approachable to more people. Built 1883, the two-storey Georgian-style Hotel commands an elevated 4,074sqm corner site overlooking and landmarking

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