PUBLIC EMPIRE MARCHING TO MARKET

Receivers have listed the Empire Hotel in Annandale, out of the collapsing Public Hospitality portfolio of bankrupt banker turned publican Jon Adgemis. Set on an 803sqm corner site with large frontages to both Parramatta Road and Johnston Street, the Empire

GBAH TAVERN SOLD IN MAJOR REGIONAL DEAL

A NSW newcomer has picked up the Goonellabah Tavern in the northern rivers region, in one of the largest regional sales of the year. Goonellabah is part of Lismore, west of Byron Bay, with local resident population of around 14k

HARVEST PASSES THE NORTHSIDE TO JDA HOTELS

Harvest Hospitality has passed another milestone with the sale of the Northside Hotel in Albury to the Feros’ JDA Hotels for $27 million. The group acquired the Hotel in late 2021 from the Burke family for $16.2 million with a goal to build value, crucially

GRACIE SEES O’HARAS EXIT QUEENSLAND

The O’Hara Group has exited Queensland with the sale of Rockhampton’s legendary Gracemere Hotel to Anthony Fargas’ Central Queensland Hotel Group (CQHG). ‘The Gracie’ is a classic Queenslander established in 1885, expanded to make more of its generous 3,970sqm corner

HORSLEY PARK TAVERN DEBUTS TO MARKET

The Lubec family’s prominent Horsley Park Tavern in Sydney’s greater west is being sold for the first time since its inception. The late Valentine Lubec was born in the former Yugoslavia and emigrated to Australia. He and his wife Karen

SAPPHIRE COAST GEM NAROOMA HOTEL UP FOR GRABS

Mathew Sweeney and family are divesting the popular Narooma Hotel on the stunning NSW Sapphire Coast to focus on their new venture. The large-format split level brick pub is perched on a 2,032sqm site with dual street frontage, enjoying stunning,

ANOTHER NEW HORIZON FOR UNIVERSAL AT ENFIELD

Just weeks after expanding west into Eastwood, the family-owned Universal Hotels has picked up thriving inner west pub the Enfield Hotel from the De Angelis family. Gallagher Hotel Management (GHM) relaunched the hotel as the Irish-themed PJ’s Enfield in 2013.

DAWES TAKES GATEWAY INTO BALLINA WITH HENRY ROUS

Nathan Dawes’ growing Gateway Hotel Group has notched up another, taking the stoic Henry Rous Tavern in northern NSW. Ballina is an attractive coastal town of around 47k residents that is geographically the gateway to the popular Byron Bay lifestyle

VETERANS LIST UNDERCOOKED WOOLI

The large-format Wooli Hotel on the idyllic NSW north coast is being offered for sale for the first time in decades, by retiring veterans. The hotel motel is at the centre of North St in the coastal and riverside town

SHORT PASSES ON THE REDFERN

Marty Short’s Welcome Hospitality has divested the reinvented Redfern Hotel on the fringe of the Sydney CBD to a growing local group. Previously known as the Courthouse Hotel, it holds a prime city site on the corner of George and