COLES TO EXIT NSW PUBS WITH NORTHLAKES LISTING

Wesfarmers’ Coles is looking to exit the NSW pub game, listing the Central Coast’s Northlakes Tavern as it focuses on off-premise-heavy Queensland. Coles and Woolworths have been feeling the squeeze in the retail world in the wake of Aldi’s influence,

SHERMAN SENDS MARY ELLEN TO MARKET

Adam Sherman has put to market his elegant Mary Ellen Hotel in the Newcastle suburb of Merewether, offering a growth trajectory in the newly refreshed pub. Local resident Sherman purchased the Mary Ellen off-market just 15 months ago, entering the

STRADBROKE ISLAND HOTEL AND RETAIL ON OFFER

The idyllic Stradbroke Island Beach Hotel has come to market, as the dominant hospitality business on the Queensland tourist destination. The Hotel, known as Straddie Day Spa for its resort-style facilities, occupies a big 3,267sqm headland site at Point Lookout

FERMANIS’ RETREAT TO AUCTION

Abbotsford’s storied Retreat Hotel will go under the hammer as a vacant freehold, to optimise the buyer pool for the development potential site. Built in 1915, the modest and aptly named Retreat is a local landmark, on the corner of

$4.4m FOR EMPTY BRUNSWICK PUB

An unnamed buyer has secured the blank canvas freehold of Melbourne’s promising East Brunswick Hotel at auction for $4.4 million. The former CUB pub on the corner of Lygon and Albert Streets has seen several incarnations over the years, and

DASH TO MARKET AS RAILWAY PICKS UP STEAM

The Dash family are looking to part with their Warragul stalwart, the reinvented Railway Hotel. The family has a history in pubs, previously owning Warragul’s O&H Hotel, and currently freehold of the Dava Hotel in Mount Martha. The family will

OXFORD HOTEL MEANS TAYLOR SQUARE HATTRICK FOR UNIVERSAL

Universal Hotels has landed a trifecta in Taylor Square with acquisition of Pelathon’s Darlinghurst icon, the Oxford Hotel. The pub on the corner of the eponymous Oxford Street and Bourke Street went through several name changes and minor geographical repositioning

KERR LISTS THE BEAUFORT AT CLARE CASTLE

After half a decade at the helm, Dave Kerr is passing the baton on his Carlton pub, The Beaufort. Kerr took on operation of the Clare Castle Hotel over five years’ ago, and brought it into the twenty-first century in

ALH AUCTION ON BRIGHTON HOTEL FETCHES $3.7m

ALH has divested the freehold going concern of its Brighton Hotel in Mandurah, a strong auction drawing $3.7m for the former Compass pub. Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) bought up the entire 12-venue portfolio of the failed Compass Group for