Piano on High hits the market with its grand piano and 3am licence up for grabs.
Piano on High, the intimate piano bar tucked along Northcote’s High Street, has quietly gone up for sale.
The room at Piano on High is built around a grand piano that anchors the space, with a small stage set aside for supporting players. A compact bar services the main floor, while a separate rear area and an outdoor courtyard give a new operator space to move. It trades on a Late Night On-Premises licence until 3am and holds up to 120 people.
Northcote’s High Street runs as one of the inner north’s steadier live music strips, with the 86 tram linking rooms like the Northcote Social Club, Bar 303 and the Wesley Anne. Piano on High sits at the smaller, later end of it, a tucked-away spot where the night keeps going long after much of the neighbourhood has wound down.
Piano on High
- Location: 211A High Street, Northcote
- Licence: Late Night On-Premises until 3am
- Capacity: 120
- Lease: four years remaining, structured as one plus three
- Rent: $890 per week including GST
- Asking price: offers in the vicinity of $75,000
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Live music has been the draw since the doors opened, with the grand piano at the centre of the programming and a rotating cast of musicians working the stage. The venue sits on the High Street strip, one of the inner north’s busier runs for bars and small live rooms.
The sale runs on a walk-in, walk-out basis, so a buyer can take the keys and start trading without a drawn-out handover. Every fixture and fitting is part of the deal, the grand piano included if the incoming owner wants to keep it, and no supplier or equipment contracts carry across.
Four years are left on the current lease, made up of one year plus a three-year option. The listing notes the landlord will look at adding terms or drawing up a new agreement depending on what a buyer needs, which leaves some room for anyone weighing a longer run in the space.
The venue is pitched at owner-operators and musicians after a base of their own in the Northcote entertainment precinct, whether the room stays a piano bar or shifts to a different concept. It is exclusively listed with Bar Sales Melbourne, with offers invited around $75,000.
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