Hospitality News & Trends

Taiwanese-backed Shayher Group has won approval for a 19-storey apartment hotel in Melbourne’s north as it presses ahead with the redevelopment of a former prison site into a $1 billion masterplanned community. 

The developers who bought longstanding brothel the Pink Palace have revealed plans to transform it from selling sex to a sexy sell.

A hotel set to be at the heart of a bustling new town centre in Sydney has hit the market.

IHG is pressing ahead with its Victorian expansion, signing a deal to manage a new $120 million, 170-room hotel in the Yarra Valley wine region east of Melbourne. 

Construction of Geelong’s biggest hotel is set to begin in the heart of the city after a new $150 million complex has been given the green light.

Developer Frasers Property Australia is on the hunt for a group to run and own Shell Cove’s Waterfront Tavern as part of its plans for a new residential estate.

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Mandurah’s historic Sutton Farm has been listed for sale after years of development wrangling with council and heritage authorities.

The multi-billionaire Oatley family is planning to spruce up its Queensland island resort, following hard on the heels of other ­island resort redevelopment by investors such as the Chinese owners of Lindeman and Daydream islands, as well as Malaysia’s Mulpha Group on Hayman Island.