BLUE MOUNTAINS BEAUTY BACK TO MARKET

Blue Mountains icon, Lawson’s Blue Mountain Hotel, has come to market sporting a major renovation. The Phillips family acquired the pub in the mid-80s, and in 2006 began a major reconstruction based on a photograph taken c.1900. In 2019 they

GOODFOLK GO ALL IN IN THE FAMILY

Goodfolk Group has expanded its Hunter portfolio with purchase of the restapled Family Hotel in Maitland. Set on a large land holding of 2,136sqm, offering public bar and TAB, bistro, open and covered outdoor areas, function room and first floor

SYNDICATE PARTING WITH CASINO’S CECIL

Amid a flood of northern rivers transactions, a local syndicate has put to market Casino’s big Hotel Cecil – run under management for over four decades. The prominent two-storey pub, with upstairs wraparound veranda, fronts main road Centre Street through

EXPANDING LOCAL OPERATOR CATCHES CESSNOCK’S RAILWAY HOTEL

Continuing the shake-up in Hunter Valley hospitality, the Railway Hotel in Cessnock has been sold to a local, diversifying operator. The two-storey Railway Hotel features a public bar, commercial kitchen and bistro, popular children’s playground, ten accommodation rooms plus a

IMG HOTELS FURTHER MASSIVE MPK PORTFOLIO BUY

Dubbo’s Western Star is the latest from the MPK stable to be bought by newcomers IMG Hotels, following their major portfolio purchase earlier this year. In April news emerged of sale of the whole freehold going concern portfolio of Nick

DUBBO’S BUNCHA FREEHOLD PLAY ON OFFER

Dubbo stalwart the Buncha Hotel is being sold as a passive freehold with opportunity to take over later in the year. Otherwise known as the Railway Junction Hotel, the pub enjoys a generous lot on arterial Fitzroy Street, adjacent to

TENANTS TAKE THE TITLE AT SODEN’S

Up-and-coming hoteliers Brendan Tracey and Lyndall Hutchinson have secured the deeds to their beloved Soden’s Hotel in Albury, amid strong competition. The popular pub sold via onsite auction on Friday, the hammer falling at $5.45 million. The two-storey Hotel occupies

RAILWAY DENI SALE OFFERS TREE CHANGE

The Railway Hotel of Deniliquin is up for sale or lease as “motivated vendors” look to ease into well-earned retirement. Enjoying a spacious 1,214 sqm block on arterial Napier Street through Deniliquin, around 700 kilometres south-west of Sydney, the Railway

GRAFTON FAMILY PUB ON THE TABLE

Book-ending the hospitality calamity, Roches Family Hotel is on the market again in the on-trend northern rivers region. Roches was built circa 1870, and since the end of 2015 has been owned and operated by Michael and Sharon Campton and

ORIENTAL HOTEL TUMUT ON OFFER

Tumut’s landmark Oriental Hotel has been put to market, offering an all-round Riverina business roughly midway between Sydney and Melbourne. The Oriental has stood over a prominent corner position of the Snowy Mountains Highway since the early 1850s, originally named