Sydney Collective

WINDSOR’S HISTORIC TATE’S TO MARKET

Posted on October 21st, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Entry-level all-rounder Tate’s Hotel on the fringe of the Sydney metro is being sold, offering hands-on opportunity for a range of buyer types. Established in 1840, on what is the northern end of the Windsor retail and commercial precinct, it

SHORT’S SYDNEY COLLECTIVE IN ADMINISTRATION

Posted on January 15th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Pub industry trailblazer Fraser Short’s group The Sydney Collective has fallen into administration, said to owe around $6 million in tax and to creditors. The news broke late December – less than a year after TSC sold its share in

SHORT-LEACH’S IMPERIAL FLAUNTS SALE

Posted on June 9th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
LGBTQ icon the Imperial Hotel of Erskineville is being sold by industry icons Fraser Short and AHA President Scott Leach. The Imperial came to fame after appearing in Australian drag movie legend The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

SHORT TALKS SELLING UP TO LAUNDY

Posted on February 6th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Fraser Short has inked a deal with partner and pub legend Arthur Laundy for Laundy Hotels to buy out Short’s interest in their jointly owned portfolio of award-winning hotels. The deal is around the partnership venues of Watsons Bay Boutique

FRASER FLIPS FITZROY

Posted on November 7th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
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,

WINDSOR DOUBLE-SHOT ON OFFER

Posted on June 1st, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Fraser Short and partners have put to market two freehold going concerns hotels at the same time, in Sydney’s north-west growth corridor. The two Winsor pubs incorporate a broad business mix across bar, gaming, wagering, accommodation and retail liquor.  The

SHORT GOES LONG IN WINDSOR

Posted on January 19th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Fraser Short has burst into Windsor, picking up two pubs in quick succession with new partners. The first to arise was Windsor’s well-known Fitzroy Hotel, operated by 'Lion-heart Luke' Ainscough, which has sold to the newly-formed syndicate of Fraser Short

FRASER SHORT TAKES ON SIR GEORGE

Posted on November 26th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
High-profile hotelier Fraser Short has picked up the acclaimed and rescued Sir George Hotel of Jugiong for $14 million. Vendors on the sale were mother-daughter duo Liz Prater and Kate Hufton, who acquired the dilapidated Hotel in 2015 and undertook

LAUNDY TINDALL SHORT SEE WISDOM IN EVANS HEAD

Posted on March 29th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A Laundy-Tindall-Short partnership has furthered their NSW north coast footprint with acquisition of the re-stapled Illawong Hotel of Evans Head. Nick Tindall and wife Justine (nee Laundy), daughter to the pub king, had been actively eyeing traditional pub offerings outside