ANCIENT BRITON MARCHES ON

Glebe's Ancient Briton is poised for new life, as the Seeto family relinquish the inner west pub in an appropriately animated January. Known as The AB, the multi-level pub occupies a 481sqm block on the corner of Glebe Point Road

HARRIGAN’S TROUPE FINDS GOOD KNIGHT

Billionaire property doyens the Roche family have divested their ‘out of step’ Irish Tavern and Lodge in Harrington to a party of publicans led by Glenn Knight. Proprietor to the Laurieton Hotel Motel, a little south of Port Macquarie, last

WAUGH AND LAWLER GO COMMY

The new year has already found Sydney hoteliers drawn north to Newcastle, as a partnership with Ashton Waugh and Ben Lawler take the deeds to The Commo of Cooks Hill. A classic red brick two-storey corner pub, the Commonwealth is

VILLAGE IN NEW AMBITIOUS HANDS

Brody Peterson has divested his handsome Village Inn of upmarket Paddington to an interstate investor, as capital holders push to leverage the pub sector. Established 1850, the pub is a prominent three-level building on a 171sqm site in the inner-city

FRISCO ON THE LOOSE

The stately Frisco Hotel in Woolloomooloo has been listed for sale by interstate owners, in what should be a keenly contested prize to round out 2023. Built in 1856, the Frisco is a three-level building on a commanding 304sqm corner

BREAKING: SHORT PASSES TUDOR COMMUNITY BATON TO UNIVERSAL

Marty Short and co have sold their locals-driven The Tudor Hotel of Redfern to the Kospetas family’s Universal Hotels, in a new high water mark for the city-fringe precinct. The Short and Anderson families invested in the multi-level Tudor in

ENGADINE TAVERN AND SITES OPPORTUNITY ON OFFER

A revised Engadine Tavern and adjoining retail sites opportunity has been listed for sale, offering the large-format pub plus potential for a mixed-use redevelopment. The south Sydney suburban Tavern occupies a 2,325sqm site, surrounded by retailers such as Woolworths, Coles,

RIVERSDALE SELLING LAST PUB LAMBTON PARK

The former headlining Riversdale group is bowing out of pubs, with stakeholders opting to sell the prominent Lambton Park Hotel, in suburban Newcastle. The pub group representing high-flyers John Singleton, Mark Carnegie and Geoff Dixon bought the LPH mid-2018 for

NEW OWNERS FOR TAPHOUSE’S NEW VIC

Taphouse has passed the baton on its pocket rocket New Victoria Tavern in the burgeoning Sydney industrial precinct and one pub suburb of Wetherill Park. The New Vic came to market late 2021, citing a lively sports bars and TAB

FRASER FLIPS FITZROY

Fraser Short’s Sydney Collective has sold Windsor’s Fitzroy Hotel to the growing Don Hodge Group, after owning the well-known pub for only about a year.  Short teamed up late 2021 with Todd Jacques, keeper of the Sunnyside Hotel in Broadmeadow,