Pubs
Three days of two-up is one reason to celebrate: game runs all weekend to make up for lost years
Punters in NSW have two more days to indulge in the Anzac Day tradition, after the state legalised it for the entire long weekend in recognition of the years lost to the pandemic.
- by Millie Muroi
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Port Macquarie pubs call last drinks in $100 million deal
Tree-changers and a surge in domestic tourism have led to a rise in demand for regional pubs, and the owner of two Port Macquarie pubs is testing the market.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Pub sales to reach $1 billion mark as investors and operators vie for assets
Pub sales are soaring, with close to $100 million worth of properties changing hands during the past month in NSW alone.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Pub baron, former lord mayor at Crossroads with $160m hotel deal
Sydney’s former Lord Mayor Nelson Meers has shelled out $160 million in Australia’s largest single pub deal.
- by Carolyn Cummins
As nightlife returns after COVID, so do noise complaints from angry locals
Noise complaints are up in central Sydney as restrictions ease, but the evidence from elsewhere is mixed.
- by Michael Koziol
Famed Minskys late-night watering hole on market for $35m+
One of Sydney’s famed late-night drinking holes, where everyone gathered around the piano to sing with John Watson, is being put up for sale.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Running Australia’s most isolated pub is not all cold beer and desert sunsets
Aircraft engine failure, desert Taipans and all-terrain vehicle recoveries are just another day’s work at Australia’s most remote pub.
- by Simon Johanson
Justin Hemmes continues pub shopping spree with $6m buy
Pub tsar Justin Hemmes has snapped up one of the oldest pubs in Narooma on the NSW South Coast as he continues to extend his large portfolio into the fast-growing regional areas.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Pub crawl in full swing as sales reach $150m
Pubs are in hot demand in a busy start to the year with investors and experienced operators snapping up $150 million of assets from the country to the city suburbs.
- by Carolyn Cummins
‘They don’t want anything to change’: NIMBYs’ ‘questionable’ use of heritage listings
Plans to build an apartment building and retail precinct in Sydney’s eastern suburbs have attracted the ire of residents’ groups and local politicians.
- by Andrew Taylor
Shower trapdoor and levitating staircase intact, legendary Brunswick pub enters new chapter
The previous incarnation ended in the owner being arrested for selling drugs to undercover police but, after five years of renovations, the Railway Hotel will reopen next month.
- by Michael Fowler