Redfern’s historic Surrey Hotel is in new hands, with regional operator Adrian Guest taking the keys at the opportunity-laden pub on the city fringe. Built 1886 and continually licensed, the three-storey Surry is deemed both architecturally and historically significant by the State government. Designed in the Victorian Italianate style, it boasts an elaborate parapet and […]
Julian Gerner has found a good outcome with sale of his troubled Continental Hotel, with a buyer looking to resume restoration and development works immediately. Career hotelier Gerner bought into the Continental – aka the Conti – back in 2015. The Hotel is a striking icon of Sorrento, built in 1875, towering four-storeys of limestone
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The Murphy brothers are back in the game, picking up the freehold going concern of Singleton’s Imperial Hotel. In July freehold owners Walker Douglas Group (WDG) teamed up with lessee Callen Hotels to offer the business and property to a robust market starved of opportunity, particularly in sweet-spots such as Newcastle and surrounds. The Singleton
Dan and Janine Redman have ended two decades defining hospitality with the big-ticket sale of their beloved George Tavern Greenhills to Chris Thomas and Thomas Hotels. The George is a big, friendly pub on the New England Highway through Greenhills, 30-minutes north-west of Newcastle, on route to Maitland. Dan and Janine entered the pub game
Industry stalwart the Hurley Group has expanded beyond home state with purchase of Brendan Lawless’ elegant Ivory Tavern in Tweed Heads. NSW publican Brendan Lawless purchased the Ivory in 2017, taking option on the freehold going concern from a Brisbane-based developer. The waterside pub counts a bar, bistro, gaming room with 15 PMEs, function space,
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Another NSW hotelier has jumped the border, with Gerry Murphy paying circa $6 million for classic ‘Queenslander’ the Commercial Hotel at Redbank. The two-storey balcony-clad mostly timber pub was built 1915 on a generous 2,702sqm lot, in the block between the train station and M2 motorway through town. Redbank is around 30 kilometres south-west of
Australia’s largest pub group has gotten a little larger on its road to independence, looking to shake up Ingham with a big-budget revival of the troubled East Ingham Hotel. The two-storey pub holds a generous 4,046sqm block, with main public bar, commercial kitchen and bistro, three gaming machine authorities, 25 accommodation rooms, and what was
A Queensland-based hotel investor has secured Woolloomooloo’s heritage-listed Frisco Hotel from the Micola family. The Frisco occupies a tidy 304sqm corner lot in Sydney’s historic wharf district, built back in 1856 to serve the public house needs of the local workers. Its three storeys offer a single-service public bar, with TAB and 17 EGMs, beneath
Irvin Hotel Group has furthered its northern interests with the big-ticket buy of Taphouse Group’s striking Coolangatta Sands Hotel. Earlier this year Irvin sold the Belmont Hotel in Newcastle to Don Hodge Group, stating intentions to reinvest the capital. Irvin Group now counts 17 pubs, with 11 in the Sunshine State after last month’s purchase
Good Beer has found its way north of the Bridge, bringing Graham Campion’s Commodore Hotel into the fleet for close to $18 million. Campion and family have long owned high-performing north shore landmark the Longueville Hotel, but ventured a few precincts south in late 2016, tempted by the prospect of the former Lantern Group’s McMahons
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