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LAKE ILLAWARRA LEGACY SALE

Posted on September 22nd, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
After nearly four decades behind the wheel, the Hampton family has handed its Lake Illawarra Hotel in Windang to a growing hotelier. Once a Tooth’s brewery, the Lake Illawarra occupies a 6,038sqm site a stone’s throw from its namesake, around

PENINSULA PLAYERS LEAP ON BALMAIN’S DRY DOCK

Posted on September 10th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Sydney’s white-hot pub market continues despite closures with sale of the languishing Dry Dock Hotel to new specialist entity Peninsula Hospitality Group. Recognised as one of Balmain’s oldest pubs, established 1857, the Dry Dock is adjacent to the Balmain Ferry

STANFORDS SELLING SUPERSIZE VINEYARD HOTEL

Posted on September 1st, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
After more than four decades, the Stanford family has put up its extremely large-format Vineyard Hotel and operation, in Sydney's northwest growth corridor. The mixed-use hospitality operation is on 76,900sqm on a corner of Windsor Road, providing a traditional sports

ROCHE MAKES ANOTHER EXCHANGE

Posted on September 1st, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Expanding hotelier Dominic Roche has swooped on the historic Exchange Hotel of Kyogle, in further demonstration of the strength of the regional market. Kyogle is within the northern rivers region, around 80 kilometres due west of Byron Bay. The Inter-war-style

WAUGH WINS BATTLE FOR WATERLOO

Posted on August 30th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Ashton Waugh has topped a list of bidders competing for Waterloo’s Grosvenor, taking the city-fringe pub for circa $8.5 million. Having purchased it from Riversdale in 2010, former CCA executive Denis Hickey and business partner Warwick Negus sold it for

NED KELLY TAKES CASINO

Posted on August 25th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Ned Kelly has grown his posse of regional hotels with acquisition of the freehold going concern of the Tattersalls Hotel in Casino. Local publican Craig Lusby bought the pub in 2011, and after nearly a decade and eyeing retirement he

ROCHE FAMILY CATCHES THUNDER IN NEW ENGLAND

Posted on August 20th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
The acquisitive Roche Group has struck again, taking Uralla’s Thunderbolt Inn from the Moore family. Established 1909, the Thunderbolt – aka The Bottom Pub – is a stately, two-storey Federation structure with ornate lacework adorning verandas on two street fronts.

YOUNG PUTS UP A FRIEND

Posted on August 18th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Wallaby hotelier Bill Young has listed his twice-loved Friend in Hand of Glebe, to focus on the family’s growing stable of large-format pubs. Built 1858, the two-storey Friend is a vestige of Glebe’s blue collar past. It is close to

BLUE-CHIP SALES TIGHTENING YIELDS

Posted on August 13th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Sale frenzy continues around hotels as blue-chip assets, seeing an ALH pub in Brisbane set a new benchmark, as Melbourne’s Zagame family cash in more chips. Culminating its coming to market in July, the Royal Exchange Hotel in Brisbane has

KNOX GOES MORE IN MOREE

Posted on August 6th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Growing local hotelier Jim Knox has expanded his collection with purchase of the Royal Hotel in Moree from long-term owners Deb and Tim Evans. The Royal of Moree is a large, two-storey brick pub with a generous Federation-style parapet, on