Oscars Hotels has sold the once infamous Plantation Hotel for around $10 million to a Sydney publican and new entrant to the industry. The large-format Plantation occupies a prominent 3,000sqm lot in Coffs Harbour, providing an oversized bar with multiple service points, popular bistro, gaming room with 15 machines and attractive beer garden all under […]
Pub king Arthur Laundy has snapped up another Top100 pub, paying long-time owner Martin Secheny $35 million for the Bidwill Hotel – the latest addition to the Laundy local area. Occupying a generous 4,300sqm block in the north-western Sydney suburb, the Bidwill Hotel offers a spacious public bar with single service point, gaming with 30
Recognising the industry is back up and running, the new Malouf partnership has cemented the deal on their first Queensland operation in John Murphy and John Cornish’s Shearer’s Arms Hotel. The newly-formed North South Pub Co (NSPC) is Matthew Coorey and Richard Malouf, in partnership with Ed and Justin Malouf of Royal Hotels fame in
Moelis Australia has announced another big-ticket acquisition in Kinselas Hotel Darlinghurst – unlocking plans to create a consolidated hospitality precinct at Sydney’s iconic Taylor Square. Moelis Australia Limited (MOE:ASX) has exchanged contracts with the Kospetas family to buy Kinselas for $45 million, following the investment bank’s very recent purchase of the Courthouse Hotel on the
ASX-listed hotel giant Redcape has announced acquisition of both the Shafston Hotel at Kangaroo Point and Aspley Hotel in Aspley from Delaware North for $27.5 million. Delaware North is a US hospitality giant founded in 1915 that operates hundreds of hospitality venues across four continents and employs over 60,000 people. At one point it was
Iris has executed the biggest sale of the year in the final weeks of 2020, taking the Ryan family’s long-held Narwee Hotel in Sydney’s south. The Narwee Hotel is a multi-storey suburban local on a big 3,370sqm block immediately opposite the Narwee Train Station, with a 24-hour licence. Currently ranked #137 on the Liquor &
The Barooga Hotel in the popular holiday resort town of Barooga has been sold to the Ratcliffs, continuing the market strength for quality regional operations. Stephen and Elizabeth Ratcliff are the proud new owners of the sole hotel in Barooga, a two-storey corner pub offering a public bar and thriving bistro, with pizzas on Friday
Paddington’s famed and once-hatted Four in Hand has been sold again, for $8.25 million, this time to well-known hotelier Colin M Parras. Previously the domain of celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge, under the ownership of Joe Saleh, the pub acclaimed for its restaurant prowess was sold in 2015, to Mitchell Waugh’s PHMG (Public House Management Group)
Ned Kelly and friends have struck again, swooping on the re-stapled Criterion Hotel in the wild Weston growth corridor of the Hunter Valley. The freehold has been owned by Sydney-based Peter Calligeros, owner-operator of Surry Hills’ Trinity Bar and both the Rag & Famish and Treehouse Hotel in North Sydney, while the Criterion has been
The stoic Olympic Hotel in Sydney’s Paddington has been sold to former Newcastle publican Wayne Lambert, with plans for glory. Dominating the corner of Regent Street and bustling Moore Park Road, the three-storey Georgian pub occupies a 533sqm lot, offering a public bar, commercial kitchen and large dining room with its own bar, and gaming
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