TEAM REILLY TAKES ON CRICKETER’S ARMS

Acclaimed operator Ray Reilly has executed another team expansion, taking on Tim Condon’s Cricketer’s Arms Hotel in Balmain with a long-time employee as partner.  The Cricketer’s Arms was established in 1872 and for many years served as host to the

BROWNS FIND ANSWER FOR WYE BEACH

Continuing the run of pub sales on Victoria’s famous Great Ocean Road, the Wye Beach Hotel has been sold, for the first time in over 30 years. Considered one of the state’s iconic coastal pubs, on The Road between nearby

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

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

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,