Hospitality

Family-owned Gallagher Hotel Management has acquired The Oaks Hotel in Sydney's Neutral Bay for $140 million.

The operator of Sydney's InterContinental Hotel, which is challenging approval of a development in Macquarie Street, can't rely in its case on an engineering report showing the alleged threat to the structural integrity of a hotel driveway.

Sovereign wealth fund Abu Dhabi Investments Authority has sold the Novotel and Ibis hotels in Sydney's Darling Harbour to Wentworth Capital for $390 million.

A cocktail bar located in the basement of Merivale's Fred's restaurant in Paddington has won court approval to trade until 2 am four days a week.

The operator of Hunter Valley's luxury Elysia Retreat, which has filed an intellectual property suit against the newly established Elysium Hotel in Noosa, has told a court the hotel's trade mark should be removed from the register.

Four Sydney venues owned by Jon Adgemis, including the South Bondi Hotel, have sold shortly after being listed, following a declaration that the former KPMG partner-turned-hospitality-mogul is bankrupt.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has cleared the way for a backpackers and hotel accommodation development in Haymarket, Sydney.

A wellness retreat has launched an intellectual property suit against luxury Queensland resort Elysium Noosa, claiming that a recent rebrand amounts to passing off.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has given the operator of the Ibis Sydney Airport hotel in Mascot another chance to seek a liquor licence, finding a deferred commencement condition did not mean a development consent was not 'in force'.

Receivers for Jon Adgemis' Public Hospitality Group are planning to put the South Bondi Hotel on the market by the end of the year.