HPI OFFERS UP COLES TENANTED HOT PROPERTY INVESTMENTS
Listed landlord HPI is making hay in the Sunshine state, offering up two of its Coles-tenanted pub freehold investments. Capitalising on the continued bullish market conditions, HPI (Hotel Property Investments) has listed the freehold of its Hotel Allen in Townsville,
ADELAIDE PRINCE PARKS ROYAL COACH HOTEL
The prominent Royal Coach Hotel has been strategically bought by Prince Alfred College, banking a long-term development opportunity. Vendors Hospitality Investments P/L and McCracken Kent Town P/L have divested the three-storey city-fringe Hotel, which features a bar, the Terrace Restaurant,
COURTS SLUG TABCORP AND HAWKS BIG FINES FOR GAMING BREACHES
Regulators have issued heavy fines for Tabcorp and Hawthorn Football Club for breaches relating to gaming licensing and failing to comply with security obligations. The Federal Court heard a case against gaming giant Tabcorp brought by Austrac – Australia’s financial
MARCH INTO MERIVALE – FOR 1 NIGHT ONLY
After a booming year of acquisitions and openings, on Wednesday Merivale delivered March Into Merivale 2017 in one spectacular night, taking over the entire ivy complex and surrounding laneways. Ash Street was transformed into an Asian street food market, sporting
LAUNDYS SLAMMED OVER PERCEIVED PENALTY RATES CONFLICT
A prominent Sydney tabloid has attacked the Laundy group, particularly elected MP Craig Laundy, over a supposed conflict between long-defunct employee agreements and cuts to penalty rates. The Daily Telegraph claims Craig Laundy, elected to the western Sydney seat of
HEMMES CALMS STORM OVER TATTOOED SOCIALITE DENIED AT COOGEE
Merivale found itself the centre of a media storm this week, after socialite Gordana Poljak was refused entry by an overzealous doorman due to her gratuitous tattoos. The tattoo queen champions her decorative ink and operates a business combining the
MURDER CHARGE FOR MAN WHO RAN OVER ‘MATE’ IN PUB CAR PARK
Two adolescent men are facing Court charged with multiple serious offences including attempted murder, after they drove their car over a mate during a brawl in a pub car park. Around 2am last Saturday two groups of young men began
DISNEY PUB CRAWL ATTRACTS WARNING FROM AUTHORITIES
A Disney-themed dress-up pub crawl set to take place next month in Dublin has been criticised by the venerable Alcohol Action Ireland as … “strange”. The themed pub crawl – which is in no way endorsed by the Disney corporation
RED HOT & DRAG QUEEN PRISCILLA’S PALACE HOTEL UP FOR GRABS
One of Australia’s most legendary pubs – a star of Priscilla Queen of the Desert – is set to kick up its heels and head to market. The Palace Hotel, Broken Hill’s best-known pub, was originally built in 1889 as
HOTEL LIQUOR STABLE AS DAN’S DOMINANCE GROWS
Take-away liquor in Australia is increasingly dominated by the big-box discounters at the expense of hotels, which now represent only one in eight sales. The latest purchasing data from Roy Morgan puts the value of the Australian off-premise alcohol market
