FEROS SELLS BIG ROCKSIA TO OSCARS

The award-winning Feros Group has sold flagship the Rocksia Hotel to Hall of Famers Bill and Mario Gravanis’ Oscars Hotels for a quick $36 million. Both Chris Feros and the Gravanis brothers were central to the recent AHA NSW Awards

SCHWARTZ REAPS $92m FOR DIXON’S THE DUKE PLUS ADINA

Morry Schwartz has divested two big properties in Melbourne’s East End, collecting $92 million for the Adina Hotel, and the city’s oldest pub, the Duke of Wellington, operated by Dixon Group. Publisher and property developer Morris ‘Morry’ Schwartz put the

MELBOURNE’S ICONIC WATER RAT HOTEL SOLD

UPDATE: The historic Water Rat Hotel in South Melbourne has sold, holding a short lease and offering a range of options for the buyer. The two-storey pub was built in 1858 as Druids Hotel on a 314sqm block just three

PELATHON SELLING QUEENS HOTEL AFTER 1 WEEK

Pelathon is testing the waters in Gladstone – hand-balling its newly acquired Queens Hotel as the mining region begins to gather steam again. Jaz Mooney’s Pelathon Management Group purchased both the Queens Hotel and Tandara Hotel in Sarina in one

SALE & LEASEBACK FOR COOKE-BEAUMONT AT BLAZING STUMP

Cooke-Beaumont & Partners is executing a sale and leaseback of its big-format hot property the Blazing Stump Hotel. The Blazing Stump is a free-standing single level pub built 1880 in the heart of Wodonga, on the Victoria-NSW border. It is

HIRD LISTS COVETED HOTEL DELANY

Newcastle’s future Best Pub has finally come to market, as its overseas owner succumbs to pressure to sell. Hotel Delany was built in 1924 in the Inter-War Georgian style, and sits in the middle of Newcastle’s eat street precinct, between

CENTRAL CLUB HOTEL VACANT FREEHOLD TO MARKET

  A landmark corner pub in North Melbourne comes to market as a freehold vacant possession, the long-serving Aidone family ready to pass the reins for its next historic leg. The two-storey Central Club Hotel sits at the intersection of

COLES & WOOLWORTHS BOTH LIST WA PUB OPPORTUNITIES

The supermarket giants have separately listed two Perth pubs, offering owner-operator upside in areas on the rebound. In 2011 ALH, 75 per cent owned by Woolworths, bought the 12-venue portfolio of the failed Compass Group, for $86 million. While it

PELATHON’S OXFORD READY TO BLOSSOM

Pelathon has listed its big Oxford Street cornerstone as it continues to shift focus onto big Queensland operations. The four-level Oxford is one of the anchors of Taylor Square – the celebrated heartland of Oxford Street and the LGBTI community.

SORRENTO’S MAGNIFICENT CONTI – BACK TO MARKET

Hotelier Julian Gerner is offering up the freehold and development opportunity of Sorrento’s magnificent Continental Hotel – the only four-storey limestone building in the southern hemisphere. Gerner purchased the historic hotel from long-time owners the Di Pietro family in 2015,