GOODTIME OFFERS UP THE EAST VILLAGE

The team behind Goodtime Hospitality have listed their historic Darlinghurst pub, the East Village Hotel. The former Tradesman’s Arms was built 1918 on Palmer Street, between major thoroughfares William and Oxford Streets. In the 20s it was renowned for patronage

COOMA’S AUSTRALIAN OFF TO AUCTION

The Australian Hotel in snow country Cooma has come to market, representing the next stage in the vendor’s strategic sell-down. The prominent full-format Aussie features public bar, bistro, gaming room with 15 machines, and 16 pub-style accommodation rooms, with the

BILL YOUNG TAKES ILLINOIS FIVE DOCK

Former Wallaby great and pub stalwart Bill Young has jumped on a rare opportunity, picking up the Hardin’s Illinois Hotel Five Dock for circa $15 million. The large pub is situated on the corner of bustling Parramatta Road and Arlington

REILLY GOES SOUTH

Pioneering Sydney publican Ray Reilly has stepped out of his inner west sanctum, buying the freehold going concern of the pastoral Sutton Forest Inn. Established 1936, the two-storey hotel is nestled among the rolling green hills of the Southern Highlands, on

GOLD COAST GOLD AT ONE-50

Hot Gold Coast property One50 Tavern has hit the market, boasting blue sky horizons and waterfront views. One50 was built in the 80s under a hotel licence. In the early noughties it became the Surfers Rowers Club site, which later

MASENS OFFER UP GOOD INTENT

After a half-century of original ownership, the Masen family is reluctantly parting with its big suburban hotel of Good Intent in Grafton. In 1957 two Grafton locals, hotelier Reg Hinch and builder Reg Want, built the “Ultra-Modern” Good Intent Hotel

HUNTER GROUP SCORES KINNY PUB

Central Coast favourite the Kincumber Hotel has sold for circa $15 million, but remains in local hands by way of Hunter Hotel Group. Known locally as ‘Kinny Pub’, the Kincumber Hotel has been an institution in the coastal precinct since

QUINN & CO GRAB HUNT’S LAKESIDE

The dynamic Hunt Hospitality has agreed to sale of its large-format Lakeside Village Tavern at Raymond Terrace, to the growing stable under Nicholas Quinn. Stephen Hunt’s pub group has been refreshing the books since the new financial year, to optimise

METCALFS LEAVING THE STATION

Long-term owner-operators Billy and Di Metcalf have listed their elegant Station Hotel Motel in Kurri Kurri, as they look to retirement. The large-format two-storey pub resides on the corner of Coronation Street and main drag Victoria Street. It offers public

LOCALS BAND TOGETHER FOR SINGO’S UNITY HALL

Singo’s Australian Pub Fund and Riversdale Group have sold off their last Sydney operation to a band of Balmain brothers, welcoming the Roddys back to prime Peninsula hospitality. Formed in 2010 by business identities John Singleton, Mark Carnegie and Geoff