Pubs
The $15m roundabout that ended a popular local brewery
The craft brewer is closing down after losing almost $1 million in trade during roadworks after failing to secure compensation from the state government.
- by Catherine Naylor
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Sydney pub sold for $70 million-plus in biggest sale of the year
Pub veteran John Ryan has splashed out more than $70 million for the Tea Gardens pub in Sydney’s east in what is the largest deal this year in the booming hotel sector.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Australia’s oldest pub brewery sold for $20m
The iconic Lord Nelson in Sydney’s Rocks district has changed hands as the pub market stays frothy, with sales across the country close to $1 billion in 2024.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Middle Park Hotel’s epic rooftop bar dispute was likened to ‘The Castle’. Finally, there’s a winner
The historic pub is set for a new rooftop redevelopment, with restrictions, after VCAT settled the long-running dispute. Opponents have vowed to keep fighting.
- by Mathew Dunckley
Pub barons call for end to tax slug on drinkers
The Laundy family is plunging millions into Sydney’s ailing hospitality sector, defying the cost-of-living crisis.
- by Andrew Taylor
Collapse of $61m pub deal casts fresh gloom over Oxford Street
The two pubs were sold last year with grand plans to create an Ivy-style mega-complex on Taylor Square. Those prospects appear to be dashed.
- by Michael Koziol, Carolyn Cummins and Ben Grubb
Pub sales reach $100m as old-time operators flood back in
Pub operators and investors are rolling back into the sector, with close to $100 million in sales completed in the past few weeks.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Dixon calls last drinks at Blues Point pub
After a decade of pulling beers, businessman and former Qantas and Tourism Australia chair Geoff Dixon is calling last drinks as landlord of the 160-year-old Blues Point hotel, on Sydney’s lower north shore.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Light Brigade pub for sale in frothy market
The popular eastern suburbs watering-hole is on the market as its owners focus on its Sydney northern beaches portfolio.
- by Carolyn Cummins
‘Nightmare scenario’: Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay’s $25 million pub
The London pub-restaurant had been temporarily closed while a new lease was finalised, during which a gang of professional squatters got themselves in and won’t leave.
- by Timothy Sigsworth
Billionaire Bruce Gordon offloads pub for $9.5m after 40 years of ownership
Rising pub baron Glenn Piper has snapped up the Scarborough Hotel in the Illawarra, adding it to his growing portfolio.
- by Carolyn Cummins
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