Property

DE ANGELIS BACK IN LIVERPOOL FOR $43m

Posted on August 19th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The De Angelis family has picked up the Macquarie Hotel in the heart of the Liverpool CBD for $43 million, representing a return to beginnings and the end of an era for Monarch and its powerful backers. De Angelis Hotels

APPLEJACK BACK AND IN THE FORRESTERS

Posted on August 19th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Surry Hills stalwart the Forresters Hotel has been purchased by Ben Carroll and Hamish Watts’ specialty group Applejack, marking their first pub venture in four years. Carroll and Watts worked together in the late 2000s within National Leisure & Gaming

EXPANDING PUB GROUP’S GOOD INTENT

Posted on August 12th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Grafton’s generous Good Intent Hotel and adjacent retail shopping complex have been sold to a growing pub syndicate for a reported record price for the region. Hotelier Reg Hinch and builder Reg Want built the Good Intent in their home

DIXON’S NEW GROUP HEADS NORTH TO CENTRAL

Posted on August 5th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Former Dixon Hospitality stakeholder Michael Dixon has signed his first deal through his private vehicle Athena Hospitality, to acquire Queensland’s high-performing Central Tavern in Burpengary. Athena is understood to have lodged application with OLGR for the leasehold acquisition and transfer,

SINGLETON CRITERION SOLD

Posted on August 3rd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The stately Criterion Hotel in Singleton has sold for around $3 million as strong regional assets continue to attract the attentions of opportunity-starved operators further afield. The pub offers bar, bistro, large outdoor beer garden, gaming room with 14 EGMs

ROYAL SCONE JOINS THE KELLY GANG

Posted on July 27th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Kelly & Co is back on the horse, taking the reins to the “best pub” Royal Hotel-Motel in Scone, Australia’s preeminent equine arena. Rodney ‘Ned’ Kelly began his career as a publican in 1997 at the Belmore Hotel, established 1866

DAMIAN KELLY TAKES ‘THE TAV’

Posted on July 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The large format North Nowra Tavern has been sold by Mark Duggan and the O'Donnell family to Damian Kelly’s Pub Invest. The ‘Tav’ is a landmark of the NSW coastal town, enjoying an exclusive catchment of 6,000 local residents, and

TATTS PENRITH SELLS TO OSCARS’ BMG

Posted on July 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The Tattersalls Hotel and Commercial Centre in Penrith's CBD has sold to the Gravanis brothers’ Oscars Hotels subsidiary BMG Developments. The Tatts is part of a 6,400sqm commercial building containing a mix of retail and commercial tenancies and 100 car

LION TAKEN BY ACQUISITIVE CONSORTIUM

Posted on July 20th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The heritage-listed Lion Hotel in North Adelaide has sold for the first time in a generation, picked up as part of ongoing plans by the newly-formed Duxton Pubs Group. Outgoing owners Tim Gregg and Andrew Svencis bought the pub in

WAUGH DOUBLES UP IN TAMWORTH

Posted on July 17th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Hotel veteran Ashton Waugh has expanded his cache of regional stalwarts with the purchase of Joe Maguire’s Tavern in Tamworth. The pub occupies a big 3,500sqm lot on main road Peel Street, incorporating a large bistro and commercial kitchen, beer