WAUGH SNAPS UP O’HARAS KELSO HOTEL

Ashton Waugh and Co are growing the pot, swooping on the O’Hara-owned Kelso Hotel in NSW landmark Bathurst. The Kelso is a large-format pub on a prominent corner, first established in 1860. It incorporates a classic public bar, gaming room

RYAN JOINS WITH FILIPOVIC FOR REDBANK’S COMMERCIAL

Industry stalwart Patrick Ryan has teamed with the recently unemployed former CUB CEO Peter Filipovic in a new independent pub venture, buying the Commercial Hotel at Redbank. The principal of Ryan’s Hotel has joined with the recently former head of

MURRAY RIVER LANDMARK ECHUCA HOTEL FOR SALE

The picturesque Echuca Hotel on the Murray River is for sale by long-term owner-operator David Connally, for the first time in two decades. Known by locals as the ‘People’s Hotel’, the award-winning Echuca enjoys double street frontage on main drag

KNOX LOCKS UP TWO MORE IN NEW ENGLAND

Jim Knox continues his New England penchant with purchase of both the Imperial Hotel in Inverell, and freehold of the Royal Hotel in Tingha. The two-storey Georgian Imperial was built on an expansive 2,063sqm lot on a major corner, and

KEARNEYS PART WITH THE BEAUFORD AFTER 30 YEARS

After more than three decades of continuous ownership, the Kearney family have parted with their Beauford Hotel, in red-hot Steel City. The Beauford is a postcard-perfect corner pub in the Newcastle suburb of Mayfield, enjoying dual street frontage on a

ENDEAVOUR LANDS THE BEACHFRONT

The big, boisterous Beachfront Hotel has been sold to the ASX-listed Endeavour Group, aka ALH, by long-term owner Doug Sallis. Occupying a massive 7,000sqm close to the Darwin CBD, Hospital and the Northern Territory’s largest retail centre, the Beachfront provides

FUNDS MANAGER BRYAM JOHNSTON RACES INTO TARANA HOTEL

Corporate high flyer Bryam Johnston and his wife Deborah are the latest high net worth-ers to take a stake in the on-flavour pub market, buying Lithgow’s popular Tarana Hotel. Known by locals as ‘The Na’ the Tarana was built in

OSCARS DIVE INTO WESTWATERS RECORD DEAL

AFL legends the Hawthorn Football Club have executed sale of their massive WestWaters Hotel & Entertainment Complex to Oscars Hotels, in a new record deal for the state. The WestWaters Hotel & Entertainment Complex was built around Lake Caroline, occupying

THE CAPTAIN SAILS INTO SYDNEY MARKET

The famous Captain Cook Hotel of Paddington is for sale as a freehold going concern accommodation pub, at one of Sydney’s busiest intersections, within walking distance of the CBD. Commanding a 544sqm corner of Flinders Street and Moore Park Road,

RED STEER WAGGA JOINS FEROS PORTFOLIO

Acclaimed Sydney operator the Feros Group is the latest to stake a claim in regional centres and into Wagga Wagga, snapping up the Red Steer Hotel and Motel. The relaxed country Hotel offers multiple bars, gaming room with nine machines,