Developer Lyon Group has pivoted in one of its northern Sydney projects and listed the Epping Hotel, bringing operational and redevelopment potential in a major growth corridor.
Built 1928, the large-format pub is a landmark of the area, offering a lively public bar with regular live music and gaming with 27 machines, under a late-trading 3am licence.
Weekly revenue exceeds $234k – bolstered by capital works completed earlier this year that have delivered an uplift of more than 15 per cent.
Marketing literature suggests further value-add opportunities through the repositioning of underutilised areas, including the lower first floor, and the gaming operation is ranked #243 with L&G, proximate to strong performers in the broader region.
The population of Epping is forecast to grow around 31 per cent over the coming decade. Its train station is already the eighteenth busiest railway station in the state, servicing approximately 8.78 million passengers annually.
Epping is flanked by corporate hub Macquarie Park and the Parramatta LGA, which has become one of the strongest markets in NSW, recording annual growth over the past five years of 14.1 per cent.
The Epping Hotel’s 1,350sqm site is directly opposite Epping Station and zoned E1 Local Centre, supporting commercial, retail, hospitality and community uses, with a 72-metre height limit and 6:1 floor space ratio.
The pub is owned by John Lyon’s Lyon Group, which is reportedly selling due to changing investment strategy and has separately begun a campaign for its station precinct site.
Lyon Group was the buyer of the last pub in the collection of bankrupt operator Virtical, Hotel Australasia, acquired through receivers at the start of 2025.
The Epping Hotel is expected to fetch around $50 million.
An Expressions of Interest campaign closing Friday, 31 July is being managed by JLL Hotels’ Ben McDonald and James Smithers, who say it is a “compelling metropolitan gaming hotel” opportunity.
“The scale of the underlying landholding and favourable planning controls provide investors with multiple future repositioning and development pathways, particularly given the hotel’s proximity to the Transport Oriented Development precinct,” notes McDonald.
