GOLDFIELDS REDESDALE FREEHOLD TO MARKET
The freehold of the picturesque Redesdale Hotel in country Victoria has come to market, boasting historic links to the gold rush era, a stable tenant, and stables and dairy out the back. Redesdale is a quiet town of around 240
TOUGH TIMES CLOSE TWO QUEENSLAND PUBS
Queensland regional pubs are doing it tough amid rising costs for transport and utilities, with two stories of planned revival resulting in recent closure. Wendy and Bruce McFarlane own and operate the Royal Hotel at Rubyvale in Queensland’s gem fields,
GALLAGHER GOES NORTH FOR MOONEY’S MEADOWBROOK
Patrick Gallagher has joined the ranks of the banana-benders, buying Jaz Mooney’s thumping Meadowbrook Hotel in the Queensland golden mile. The Hotel is a large-format pub built in the late 90s on a 5,934sqm site in Meadowbrook, in Logan City,
MEMORABLE MONTH FOR MOMENTO
The Colosimo’s Momento Hotels has been celebrating a big month, writing big cheques and making the news, just a month after agreeing to sell flagship, the Australian Hotel & Brewery. In July Momento announced a deal to sell its pride
MARY’S COMMERCIAL HOTEL DALBY RAZED
The iconic Commercial Hotel in the heart of Dalby has been destroyed by fire, after emergency services were called early Wednesday morning to a blaze engulfing the building. The tile-fronted two-storey brick Commercial Hotel was built in 1909, replacing the
SMART SOLUTIONS SHOW NO-COST SHOE-SHINING VENDING MACHINE
Polishoe is an innovative kiosk-style product offering customers a free three-step shoe polish in just under two minutes, as they watch instructions and a few ads. The stand-alone machine features a place to put the shoe being polished, beneath a
LEVY SELLS SEABREEZE NELSON BAY TO HUNT
Following an extensive renovation, Marcus Levy has sold his sea-change Seabreeze Hotel business to Coast king Steven Hunt, as Marvan keeps moving. The Seabreeze is a broad offering pub on a generous block intended as the perfect setting in which
MARLBOROUGH SHOWS GRACE OVER CEREBRAL PALSY SECURITY SCANDAL
The Marlborough Hotel has been in damage control over the behaviour of security guards toward a young woman with cerebral palsy, denied entry as judged to be intoxicated. The unnamed woman was out with friends last Saturday evening, celebrating her
BALGA MAN SENTENCED OVER PUB CAR PARK FATALITY
A man has been sentenced for his role in a fatal punch-up outside the Brook Bar & Bistro last year, after the Danny Green v Anthony Mundine rematch boxing event. In a hearing last week, WA’s District Court heard there
WARDS PUT UP SUPER TROUPER TRUNDLE HOTEL
The commanding Hotel at the centre of the town of Trundle has come to market, overseeing the widest main street in NSW and Australia’s first dedicated ABBA festival. The National Estate-listed Trundle Hotel is a sprawling two-storey brick and timber