CP Group, Alvarium Investments & Archipelago Capital JV Acquire Stamford Plaza Aucland for NZ$170m Breaking A Record High Price

Main Photo: The Stamford Plaza Auckland…view over Auckland Harbour Date: October 2022 Name: The Stamford Plaza Auckland, opened as The Regent Location: CBD Auckland, North Island, New Zealand Number of Keys: 286 Seller: Stamford Hotels & Resorts Buyer: A consortium which includes CP Group, the largest hotel owner in New Zealand, as well as global…

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Four Seasons to Enter Yacht Market To Be Headed Up By Larry Pimentel

Main Photo: Four Seasons Yachts – image envisaged Date: October 2022 Name: Four Seasons Yacht – to be up and sailing by end 2025 Location: TBA Number of Keys: 95 suites Seller: Brand New Vessel Buyer: Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings LTD, owner and joint operator of Four Seasons Yacht Yet another hotel brand is entering the…

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Somera Capital Acquires Quorum Hotels & Resorts in USA

Main Photo: The Hilton DFW Lakes, one of the Quorum hotels Date: October 2022 Name: Somera Capital Management and Quorum Hotels & Resorts Location: Somera is California and Washington DC based…Quorum is Dallas based and currently operates properties in Texas, California, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky, USA Number of Keys: Quorum currently have 11…

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Fattal Group – Leonardo Hotels, Acquires the 114-Year Old Dilly Hotel London, Formerly Le Meridien For Around £90m

Main Photo: The Dilly Hotel, formerly The Piccadilly (GrandMet 1970s) and then Le Meridien (Forte 1980s) Date: October 2022 Name: The Dilly Location: Heart of London’s Piccadilly, right by Eros and Piccadilly Circus, England, UK Number of Keys: 280 Seller: Archer Capital Buyer: Fattal Group Fattal Group, owner of Leonardo Hotels UK and Ireland, has…

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New Maldron Hotel Opens On Dublin’s Merrion Road

Main Photo: The newly-opened Maldron Merron Road, Dublin Date: October 2022 Name: Maldron Hotel Merrion Road Location: Merrion Road, Dublin, Ireland Number of Keys: 140 plus 64 apartments, five townhouses, and a basement car park, where the hotel has access to 68 car-parking spaces, in a mixed-use development Seller: The site was the Tara Towers…

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Atenor & Ennismore To Open New TRIBE Hotel in Warsaw

Main Photo: The TRIBE Hotel Canary Wharf, opened in August 2022 Date: October 2022 Name: TRIBE Warsaw Airport Location: FORT 7 project, Wlochy district, near Warsaw Chopin Airport, Poland Number of Keys: 266 Seller: Merchant Holdings Buyer: Belgium’s Atenor, who acquired the land as a development site in May 2019, from Merchant Holdings. The property…

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Trinity Investments Acquires Hyatt Regency Greenwich

Main Photo: The Hyatt Regency…latest addition to Trinity RE’s Fund Date: October 2022 Name: Hyatt Regency Greenwich Location: Greenwich, Conneticut, USA Number of Keys: 373 Seller: TBA….The hotel was built up in the mid-1980s, on the grounds of the old Condé Nast campus. It has incorporated some elements of the old magazine-publishing complex, including the…

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Accor Debuts Novotel Mexico City World Trade Center

Main Photo: The new style Novotel bedroom, at the new Novotel Mexico City Date: October 2022 Name: Novotel Mexico City World Trade Center Location: World Trade Center, Mexico City, Mexico Number of Keys: 106 Seller: TBA Buyer: TBA Accor has announced the opening of Novotel Mexico City World Trade Center, a new modern hotel offering…

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Expo Hotel Valencia, Sold by Grupo Selenta To The Swiss Funds of Pictet

Main Photo: The Expo Hotel Valencia Date: October 2022 Name: Expo Hotel Valencia Location: Alameda, Turia Gardens, Valencia, Spain Number of Keys: 377 Seller: Gruppo Selenta – the Mestre family Buyer: Pictet Alternativa Advisors, with €609bn AUM The largest hotel sale in the city of Turia since the pandemic . Funds managed and/or advised by Pictet from…

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Redevco Enters Hotel Sector With €80m Foray Into Iberian Market

Main Photo: The Le 31 mixed-use development in Lille, with two hotels – Hyatt Centric and Stay KooooK by SV Hotel Date: October 2022 Name: Redevco Location: Spain & Portugal –  Lisbon, Bilbao, Seville, Porto, and Malaga Number of Keys: TBA Seller: TBA Buyer: Redevco, who manage 280 assets in 12 countries across various portfolios…

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Aimbridge EMEA Replaces Interstate as Their EMEA Brand

Date: September 2022 Location: Global – Affects EMEA What Did They Say: No longer Interstate…now Aimbridge EMEA Who They: Aimbridge Hospitality, the parent company that acquired Interstate Hotels & Resorts in 2019 Main photo: The Hotel Indigo The Hague, an Interstate managed hotel After spending many years as one of the most well-known global third-party management…

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IHG Expands European Presence With Five New Hotel Signings With Grape Hospitality In Spain, France & Italy

Main Photo: The Hotel Indigo Florence – envisaged…one for five new IHG hotels for Grape Hospitality Date: September 2022 Names: voco Madrid Centre Retiro, Crowne Plaza Madrid Centre Retiro, Hotel Indigo Florence, Hotel Indigo Bordeaux and Hotel Indigo Barcelona Gran Via Plaza Espana – Opening 2023/24 Locations: Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, Florence, Italy and Bordeaux,…

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B&B Hotels Launches UK Expansion Aiming For 100 Hotels By 2035

Main Photo: The B&B Hotel at Lisbon Airport Date: September 2022 Name: B&B Hotels Locations: B&B Hotels currently has more than 650 hotels across 14 European countries, with the UK being a new location for them Number of Keys: Currently 59,000! UK with 100 hotels should yield another 9,000 or so Sellers: They are looking…

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Hyatt and Kiraku Unveil New Hospitality Brand JV To Launch Modern Style Ryokans in Japan Under ATONA Brand Name

Main Photo: The new ATONA logo/brand Date: September 2022 Name: ATONA – to be launched 2025 Locations: Across Japan Number of Keys: TBA JV Partners: Hyatt and Kiraku will each own fifty percent of the joint venture to develop this new offering Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced that a Hyatt affiliate and Kiraku, Inc. have entered into a strategic…

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UAE Gets Own ‘Casino Consortium’ as Wynn Resort Causes Investment Push

Date: September 2022 Location: Ras Al Khaimah, UAE What Did They Say: Gaming getting closer to UAE Who They: A consortium focusing on gaming has been created in the UAE – Carter Hones Associates, WT Partnership and Westar Architects International Main photo: The planned Wynn “mega-resort” planned to open 2026 A consortium focusing on gaming…

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IHG Signs Deal to Open Dual-Branded Crowne Plaza and Hoilday Inn Express at Stockholm Airport, Sweden

Main Photo: IHG’s Crowne Plaza & Holiday Inn Express Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Sweden. Photo credit: Björnbäckens Fastighets AB/© InterContinental Hotels Group Date: September 2022 Name: Crowne Plaza & Holiday inn Express Arlanda Airport to open 2026 Location: Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden Number of Keys: 420 – 120 in Crowne Plaza and 300 in Holiday…

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