Hospitality News & Trends

A high-flying Sydney-based hospitality group has snapped up the historic 145-year-old Lorne Hotel.

Merivale boss Justin Hemmes is showing no signs of slowing down on a recent spate of pub purchases — this time adding a popular Irish pub in the inner west.

This postcard-perfect vacant block of land in North Queensland has a private beach stretching over a kilometre, coconut trees and views across one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World.

An iconic Northbridge building, which has been home to Perth’s much-loved Sorrento Restaurant for almost four decades, has been sold for $1.85 million. The property, at 158 James Street, sits in the heart of the busy inner city entertainment precinct and has etched itself in the hearts (and bellies) of many West Australians.

It started as a blacksmith shop in the late 1850s but today this historic site is home to several businesses popular among locals and tourists – and it’s on the market.

Theresa Albioli and Tony De Marco are no strangers to transforming heritage homes in the Daylesford region and their most recent project, Hotel Bellinzona, has been the couple’s greatest challenge to date. 

Sydney “bar tsar” Justin Hemmes has broken his silence on why he has inexplicably ventured south, buying his first property outside of NSW with the purchase of Melbourne’s historic Tomasetti House in a $40m-plus deal. Mr Hemmes’s Merivale Group purchased the landmark Flinders Lane property from the Millett family, in what he said was the start of a national expansion for the company.

A Brisbane property and retail entrepreneur has snapped up one of the Sunshine Coast’s favourite pubs with arguably Noosa’s best views.

Billionaire Sydney hotelier Justin Hemmes is making his first move into Melbourne buying Tomasetti House in trendy Flinders Lane from the Millett family in a $40 million deal.