MOELIS LANDS RECORD SALE AT BYRON

Moelis Australia has announced finalisation of its record-breaking purchase of Byron Bay’s Beach Hotel, and its ongoing strategy for the gaming-free coastal icon. The Beach, aka the ‘Top Pub’, occupies a sprawling 4,585sqm site that counts 100 metres fronting Byron’s

CAPTAIN COOK SETS A NEW COURSE

The recently beached Captain Cook Hotel at Paddington is back in the game at the hands of new owners, with a revised charter and fresh approach. Built 1914, the four-storey Captain Cook oversees the intersection of Flinders Street and Moore

NED KELLY TAKES OVER THE GLOBE

Pub industry identity ‘Ned’ Kelly is growing his footprint in the Mudgee food bowl, picking up the stately Globe Hotel in Rylstone. The Globe came to market late 2019, offering a diverse business led by popular restaurant The Shed, alongside

NEW ROLLINGS INTO AN OLD AUSTRALIAN

The next generation is up and running in the heartland Australian Hotel, heralding a new era in an historic Cowra pub. The original licensed inn of Cowra came to be in 1846, later making way for the current structure, built

BILL YOUNG TAKES ILLINOIS FIVE DOCK

Former Wallaby great and pub stalwart Bill Young has jumped on a rare opportunity, picking up the Hardin’s Illinois Hotel Five Dock for circa $15 million. The large pub is situated on the corner of bustling Parramatta Road and Arlington

REILLY GOES SOUTH

Pioneering Sydney publican Ray Reilly has stepped out of his inner west sanctum, buying the freehold going concern of the pastoral Sutton Forest Inn. Established 1936, the two-storey hotel is nestled among the rolling green hills of the Southern Highlands, on

WORLD-FAMOUS BIRDSVILLE HOTEL SELLS TO OUTBACK ENTREPRENEURS

One of Australia’s most famous hotels and icons of the red centre has sold, bringing new outback blood to the heritage-listed Birdsville Hotel. Located a leisurely 1,600 kilometres west of Brisbane and 1,200 north of Adelaide, the western Queensland town

TAMBREY TRANSACTS AMID NORTH-WEST CLARITY

More than two years after being put in the hands of receivers, clarity around future licensing has brought sale of the large-format Tambrey Tavern in north-west WA. Early 2018 both the Tambrey and Karratha Taverns in Karratha returned to market

THORPE PARTS WITH HARBORD BEACH HOTEL

Ending more than four decades custodianship, former AHA NSW President John Thorpe has sold the iconic Harbord Beach Hotel to local real estate tycoon and industry newcomer Glenn Piper. Thorpe and partner Trish King took the reins to the landmark

TEMORA’S SHAMROCK YIELDS SALE

After seven decades and three generations, the Leary family has sold its Shamrock Hotel in Temora to another in the convoy of Sydney-based publicans. Built on a 1,242sqm block on the main road through Temora, around 400 kilometres west of