Tasmania Commercial Property News

Demolition of the former Rebels bikie clubhouse has been given the green light in a vote that could have significant implications for Hobart’s heritage buildings.

New details have been released on plans for a $50 million luxury hotel atop of Rosny Hill on Hobart’s Eastern Shore.

A new anti-highrise group will back a small-business owner in her fight against a $50 million hotel development.

A plan to build 52 apartments in a 13-storey building on the site of the Welcome Stranger Hotel in Harrington St has been rejected by a Hobart City Council planning committee after council officers recommended it be refused.

The ultimate Tasmanian escape — with a sauna handcrafted by a local artist and including an Estonian-made firebox — is making waves on the mainland.

Tasmania’s hotel market is in full swing with Hobart’s MACq1 Hotel selling for about $50 million this week to a syndicate of investors, while in Melbourne developers are poised to build a significant hotel at the airport.

Property magnate Larry Kestelman plans to turn Wilkinsons Point into a Southbank-style precinct that will drive seven-days-a-week traffic in the area.

The hotel component of the multimillion-dollar Kangaroo Bay development could be significantly delayed as the builder contemplates seeking new permits.

An NBL team for Tasmania looks increasingly likely, with the league’s owner understood to be in the mix to buy the Derwent Entertainment Centre.