Day: February 27, 2015

A CROWD of 60-70 people attended Friday’s auction of the Bay Hotel, 62 Main St, Mornington, which was sold for $6.1 million. Vinci Carbone auctioneer David O’Callaghan sold the 1880s former Commerce Bank in conjunction with Jacobs & Lowe’s Russell Murphy. It later became a silver service restaurant and then a hotel. The new owners, a group of investors from Balwyn, bought the two-storey building of 732 square metres and land area of 552 square metres with rear laneway access. “They are happy and the vendors – a group of locals – are also happy,” Jacobs & Lowe’s Peter Skewes…