Sydney Pub for Sale for the First Time – Ever

People often talk about building a business from the ground up, but few can actually attest to having lived that experience. Valentine Lubec is not one of them. Born in the former Yugoslavia, and having emigrated to Australia, Valentine and his wife Karen took up residence in Horsley Park in Sydney’s far west – and in what was largely farming land at the time. Following a chance meeting with beer baron Edmund Reschs, Valentine decided upon building (physically) his own pub for the people of his area; and for his family. And so he did, brick by brick. All 200,000 of them. A tough man in a tough land, and with boundless stamina and a supportive family to match; revered for decades until his recent passing, a concreter, a publican and a doer.

Which brings us to the Horsley Park Tavern, an old school large format pub caught in the middle of one of Australia’s most prolific urban and infrastructure growth corridors; and available for sale for the first time since its inception in 1980.

HTL Property, leading national brokerage agency, is proud to represent the family in the sale of the Horsley Park Tavern via Expression of Interest sale process, concluding 26 November, 2025.

“The well publicised development of Sydney’s Western suburbs is a very strong piece of the magnetism for this large format commercial landholding; with the scarcity of available pubs in the hotly sought after Fairfield LGA the other” advised HTL Property National Pubs Director, Dan Dragicevich.

Adorning a 10,500sqm rectangular corner site in the commercial precinct, the locally famous watering hole represents a rare opportunity to acquire and then optimise a valuable hospitality asset in one of Australia’s most exciting development precincts.

“We feel very fortunate to represent the inimitable history the national traditional hotel asset class broadly enjoys, with its origin at very commencement of modern Australia; and with the entrepreneurial spirit never more obvious than in respect of the Lubec family’s sprawling Sydney hotel” added HTL Property Managing Director, Andrew Jolliffe.

“Transactional volumes are up dramatically compared to the same time period last year, and the market is hugely attracted to scalable, improvable assets such as this one” Jolliffe concluded.

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