HARBOUR VIEW HOTEL LOOKS TO MARKET
For the first time in 20 years, the handsome Harbour View Hotel in Sydney tourist mecca The Rocks has come to market. The HVH is one of the few freehold hotels in The Rocks, with most titles held by the
IRIS LANDS ALH’S CAMBRIDGE TAVERN FOR $56m
Sam Arnaout’s Iris Group has snapped up another massive Sydney pub, securing the freehold operation of ALH’s high-performing Cambridge Hotel in Fairfield for $56 million. Still celebrating last month’s milestone acquisition of Manly’s The Steyne, Iris continues its rapid portfolio
OSCARS BUILDS ON INNER WEST EMPIRE
Oscars Hotels has snapped up another inner west landmark, taking title to the freehold going concern of Parramatta Road icon the Empire Hotel, in Annandale. Built circa 1890 for Tooth’s & Co, the three-storey Empire, particularly its façade, was refashioned
GOOD TIMES AS INGHAM-MYERS DIVEST NEW ENGLAND
Brett Nielson and Steve Forbes have taken their newly-formed Good Times Industries west to Armidale, picking up ‘The Newie’ as the Ingham-Myers' exit the region. Nielson is long-time owner of the Glengarry Castle Hotel in Redfern, where he used to
PENTAGON TAKES $30m EBC PORTFOLIO
The expanding Pentagon Group has fronted up over $30 million for EBC Leisure’s portfolio of three pubs in the blossoming apple isle. Unlisted pub vehicle EBC began moves last year to divest its pub interests, after more than a decade
HARRY BARRY LISTS MOONEE BEACH AND VILLAGE GREEN
North Coast Pub Group is consolidating in northern NSW, listing its thriving large-format Moonee Beach Tavern in northern Coffs and Village Green in Grafton. Harry Barry’s North Coast Pub Group (NCPG) operates the big Hoey Moey in coastal tourist town
HEMMES FORKS OUT $7.5m FOR 3 WEEDS
Justin Hemmes is keeping up his growth strategy, picking up Rozelle’s 3 Weeds in a strong result for the long-time owners and the evolution of the peninsula precinct. Set on an 880sqm lot around four kilometres west of the Sydney
GM HOTELS ON OFFER FOR $70m
GM Hotels is shaking up the market with the portfolio sale of six pubs in Adelaide, expected to fetch around $70 million. The package represents the crème of GM Hotels collection in South Australia, and destined to be the highest
GALLAGHER PUTS UP TWO
Irish pub king Patrick Gallagher is parting with two of his thriving leases to bolster his growing national portfolio of freeholds and leases. Built 1874, the multi-level Criterion Hotel sits majestically on the bustling corner of Pitt and Park Streets
FRISCO GOES BIG BACK TO MARKET
The handsome Frisco Hotel has returned to market for a bells and whistles campaign hoping to capitalise on confidence in the harbourside precinct of Woolloomooloo. Built 1856 on 304sqm in one of Sydney’s oldest precincts, the Frisco is a three-storey
