HARRIGAN’S TROUPE FINDS GOOD KNIGHT

Billionaire property doyens the Roche family have divested their ‘out of step’ Irish Tavern and Lodge in Harrington to a party of publicans led by Glenn Knight. Proprietor to the Laurieton Hotel Motel, a little south of Port Macquarie, last

INGHAM MYERS TAKE NORMANBY

The Ingham Myers family has boosted their pub portfolio with the addition of Jaz Mooney’s classic Normanby Hotel, in boomtown Brisbane. Sam and Nick Ingham Myers and their Hotels group hold a spread of properties, notably including the Karalee Tavern

WAUGH AND LAWLER GO COMMY

The new year has already found Sydney hoteliers drawn north to Newcastle, as a partnership with Ashton Waugh and Ben Lawler take the deeds to The Commo of Cooks Hill. A classic red brick two-storey corner pub, the Commonwealth is

VILLAGE IN NEW AMBITIOUS HANDS

Brody Peterson has divested his handsome Village Inn of upmarket Paddington to an interstate investor, as capital holders push to leverage the pub sector. Established 1850, the pub is a prominent three-level building on a 171sqm site in the inner-city

KELLYS PASS THE BROOKIE TO IRVINS

The Kelly family has capped a record year for the pub sector, selling its northern beaches institution the Brookvale Hotel to Irvin Hotel Group for a reported $42 million. The large suburban pub on 2,700sqm on arterial Pittwater Road provides

KELLY PLANS HISTORY AT HOPE AND ANCHOR

The highly historic Hope and Anchor Hotel is back in local hands and set to be “rescued” by alderman and hero of Hobart, John Kelly. Built in 1807, the Hope and Anchor on the Hobart foreshore is thought to be

PUB COMMANDERS MATHIESON FAMILY LAND THE CAPTAIN

The ink still drying at Woolloongabba, the Mathieson family has emerged as the buyer of Sydney’s famous and somewhat controversial Captain Cook Hotel, aka The Captain Paddington, from short-term pilots. The Captain occupies a 544sqm corner of Flinders Street and

MATHIESON GOES TO THE GABBA, AGAIN

Bruce Mathieson Jr continues his own portfolio build, snagging the potential-laden Woolloongabba Hotel in Brisbane’s Olympics hot spot. The Woolloongabba has resided on its prominent corner site since 1868, now incorporated as a tenancy in the prime location of 803

CHARLIE GOES COASTAL IN COFFS

Veteran publican Charlie Redmond has done the sea change, finding haven at the Coast Hotel in Coffs Harbour in a $2.8 million high water mark for the seaside precinct. The Coast resides on a generous 1,600sqm corner of Coffs Harbour’s

SALMONS SELL THUMPING WAREHOUSE BROWNFIELD RYDALMERE TAVERN

The Salmon family has divested its unexpectedly successful Rydalmere Tavern in Sydney’s west to pub veteran Andrew Lazarus’ Zenith Hotels. Rod Salmon is the Port Stephens-based owner of development company Coho Property. Having purchased a warehouse on 3,000sqm of land