Today
Crazy rich Asian hotels open in London – think £25,000 a night
You can even live permanently at the newly minted Peninsula or the lavish Raffles. But can they compete with city icons like The Ritz or The Dorchester?
- Hans van Leeuwen
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Endeavour Group peace only comes with a scalp – the chairman’s
The hotels and pub group’s board will have the numbers at its AGM next week. But chairman Peter Hearl has two choices: claim a fleeting victory or read the room.
- Anthony Macdonald
This Month
NSW club plans 100-room hotel to offset slide in pokies income
Club Sapphire Merimbula on the NSW South Coast hopes to build the tourist accommodation to create a new revenue source as gaming revenue declines.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Exclusive
- Life & Leisure
What it’s like to stay at the new W Sydney between two expressways
After construction dramas then the pandemic, the $1 billion Ribbon built for the glamorous hotel has opened. Life & Leisure stayed on opening night.
- Philippa Coates
Jon Adgemis, Archibald Capital shout senior lenders at pubs roll-up
The duo is understood to have held meetings with prospective backers to bankroll the tilt.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Sydney’s new $1b hotel starts at $700 a room, with (Darling) harbour views
The largest W hotel in the world also has a 30-metre open-air infinity pool, a 2am desert bar and a distinctive curved building.
- Fiona Carruthers
- Exclusive
- Pubs
Mystery local buyer pays $15.75m for Mornington Peninsula pub
The Dava Hotel was purchased by a cashed-up “big property owner” after 18 tenders to purchase were submitted. A big drawcard was the 1.55ha landholding.
- Larry Schlesinger
Marriott opens world’s biggest W Hotel in Sydney
It took three builders to complete it, but Marriott has finally cut the ribbon on the 588-room W Sydney at Darling Harbour.
- Larry Schlesinger
From women’s prison to unmissable one-off boutique hotel
A WWII-era jail in Berlin has been liberated to create accommodation that’s a monument to heroines, a luxury urban retreat – and a home for modern art.
- Ben Fajzullin
Comiskey family buys Sunshine Coast’s Imperial Hotel for $20m
Comiskey Group will add the large-format venue at Eumundi in the Noosa hinterland to its large portfolio of Queensland venues and developments.
- Larry Schlesinger
Endeavour accuses pubs billionaire of using ‘selective’ information
Peter Hearl, chairman of the Dan Murphy’s and hotels owner Endeavour, wrote to shareholders hitting back at 15 per cent shareholder Bruce Mathieson’s criticism.
- Updated
- Simon Evans, Carrie LaFrenz and Zoe Samios
- Analysis
- Sharing economy
The sharing economy is on life support
Getting more use out of assets you already own was the great idea of the second wave of the internet championed by Uber and Airbnb.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Exclusive
- Construction
Lake Macquarie’s $600m paradise gets green light
The developer behind the $600 million mixed-used development said the project would bolster the Lake Macquarie’s regional tourism.
- Campbell Kwan
Hyatt brings serviced apartment brand to Australia
The first Hyatt House hotel will open in a South Melbourne residential tower in 2025.
- Larry Schlesinger
Star hopes to fetch $200m for Brisbane casino and hotel
Star Entertainment has put the Treasury Casino and Hotel on the market as it prepares to vacate these properties for Queen’s Wharf.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Is the man who listed Dick Smith right to turn around Endeavour?
The Dan Murphy’s owner is ripe for a shake-up, but is the man who helped private equity make millions at Myer and Dick Smith the best person to deliver it?
- Anthony Macdonald
September
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
No reception desk, thanks, at this revamped Melbourne hotel
Skip the queue when you check into Rydges’ new flagship – the quicker to get you to the swank rooftop pool.
- Stephen Clark
54 years on, Harry Triguboff finally makes his mark in Melbourne
The 298-room apartment hotel on King Street in Melbourne CBD’s - the Sydney property developer’s first foray in Victoria – has opened its doors.
- Larry Schlesinger
Hotel developer Pro-invest plans big move into build to rent
Pro-invest will leverage off its expertise in developing and operating 6000 hotel rooms and launch into the build-to-rent apartment market this year.
- Larry Schlesinger
ACCC ‘concerned’ over Endeavour buying Mornington pub
The competition watchdog says the proposed acquisition would likely substantially lessen competition in the supply of takeaway liquor in the Rye area.
- Larry Schlesinger
