Pubs Commercial Property News

Historic pub the Waterside Hotel has officially reopened after being revamped by Sand Hill Road — the group that bought St Kilda’s landmark Espy Hotel earlier this year.

An international property fund has become the latest player to join Sydney’s pub boom snapping up city watering hole The Republic Hotel from the Ryan family.

One of Melbourne’s oldest and most storied pubs, the Water Rat Hotel, is on the market. The iconic South Melbourne venue opened in 1858 as the Druids Hotel and was subsequently called the Freemason’s Hotel, …

Brisbane is set to get a new $40 million live entertainment venue in Fortitude Valley’s Brunswick St Mall with space for up to 3300 people.

Hot on the heels of buying Collaroy’s beachfront hotel in Sydney’s north, bar tsar Justin Hemmes has snapped up the Vic on the Park in inner-city Marrickville as he keeps up the rapid-fire expansion of his empire.

Sydney’s much-loved eastern suburbs watering hole The Clovelly Hotel has sold for a hefty $34 million, in the lead-up to the prime summer season. The deal comes days after another waterfront pub, the Beach Hotel …

The Beach Hotel in Byron Bay, developed by Paul Hogan sidekick John Cornell, has sold for an aggressive $70 million to a Melbourne-based private equity firm backed by the wealthy Liberman family. This article originally appeared on theaustralian.com.au/property.

You don’t need $30 million to make your publican dreams come true — there are a handful of options in country Victoria that could quench your thirst.

Property developer and publisher Morry Schwartz is selling the oldest pub in Melbourne, the Duke of Wellington, and a nine-level ­office tower on the same block with price expectations of about $30 million. This article originally appeared on theaustralian.com.au/property.