Minor Hotels Add Second Anantara Hotel In Portugal – Alentejo

Main Photo: The lobby at the new hotel – envisaged Date: July 2022 Name: Anantara Royal Vila Viçosa – to open 2024 Location: Vila Vicosa, Alentejo, Portugal Number of Keys: 60 rooms and suites and 16 residences Seller: The building is a former 15th centurey monastery in Vila Viçosa Buyer: A strategic partnership between the…

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Banyan Tree Group Debuts in Japan with Five Upcoming Properties

Main Photo: The Rikyu Suite at the newly opened Garrya Nijo Castle, Kyoto Date: July 2022 Name: Banyan Tree Higashiyama – opening 2024, Banyan Tree Ashinoko Hakone – opening 2026, Cassia Hirafu – opening 2025, Dhawa Yura Kyoto – opened 2022 and Garrya Nijo Castle Kyoto – opened 2022 Locations: Kyoto, Lake Ashino and Niseko Number…

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InterGlobe Appoints Cycas As It’s European Operating Partner

Main Photo: The Hotel Reichshof Hotel, outside of the K+K brand, included in the deal Date: July 2022 Name: InterGlobe Enterprises and Cycas Hospitality with K+K Hotel Portfolio Locations: This deal: Hamburg, Paris, Barcelona, London, Vienna, Prague, Munich, Budapest and Bucharest.  Number of Keys: K+K – 1,200 plus 278 at Hotel Reichshof Hamburg Owner: InterGlobe…

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Saudi Tourism Fund Signs Pact With Spain’s Melia to Set Up Three Hotel Projects, With US$266.5m Investment

Main Photo: The Gran Melia de Mar, Mallorca Date: July 2022 Name: Tourist Development Fund (TDF) and Melia Hotels International Locations: Riyadh, Jeddah and the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia Number of Keys: TBA Funder: Tourism Development Fund Manager: Melia Hotels International, owner and operator of 350 hotels in 40 countries, with eight brands The Tourism…

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Reuben Brothers Step In Fully on Admiralty Arch Hotel Development, London to See An Opening Date of 2023/24, With Waldorf Astoria Brand

Main Photo: The much delayed Admiralty Arch Hotel. Photo Credit: Archer Humphreys Date: June 2022 Name: Admiralty Arch Waldorf Astoria (we’re guessing) Location: Admiralty Arch, The Mall/Trafalgar Square, London, England, UK Number of Keys: 100+ with residences and a members’ club Seller: Prime Investors Capital (PIC), a vehicle headed by Rafael Serrano, has owned Admiralty Arch…

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90-Key Radisson Hotel Istanbul, Harbiye Opens

Main Photo: The exterior shot of this new Radisson hotel Date: June 2022 Name: Radisson Hotel Istanbul, Harbiye Location: Close to Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey Number of Keys: 90 rooms and suites Seller: TBA Buyer: TBA Radisson Hotel Group has announced the opening of Radisson Hotel Istanbul, Harbiye, located in the heart of Istanbul near…

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Best Western Launches Sadie Brand In The UK, Finally

Main Photo: The Sadie Luton Date: June 2022 Name: The Sadie Luton – Opens July 2022 Location: Mill Street, Luton, Bedforshire, England, UK Number of Keys: 87 Seller: The site was a former 1960’s office building Buyer: Ali Mussani, owner of Centro Hotels Best Western’s newest hotel brand Sadie will welcome its first guests on…

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Scottish Boutique Hotel Operator Manorview Group Adds 11th Venue With the Acquisition of Bothwell Bridge Hotel in South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Main Photo: The Bothwell Bridge Hotel Date: June 2022 Name: Bothwell Bridge Hotel Location: Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK Number of Keys: 90 Seller: The hotel was known as The Clyde Hotel, with the building dating back to the early 19th century. The Martalo family purchased the hotel in 1980 Buyer: Manorview Group, headed up by…

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Liverpool City Council To Open Flagship Novotel Liverpool Paddington Village Hotel, At A Cost Of £43m, To Be Managed by Legacy Hotels & Resorts

Main Photo: The new Novotel Liverpool, billed as the tallest hotel in the city. Photo Credit: Liverpool Echo Date: June 2022 Name: Novotel Liverpool Paddington Village – opening July 2022 Location: Paddington Village Development, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK Number of Keys: 221, including the 39 long-stay apartments Seller: TBA Buyer: Liverpool City Council Legacy Hotels…

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Aviva Investors Buys Pre-Let Premier Inn Dublin Docklands

Main Photo: The new Premier Inn in Dublin Date: June 2022 Name: Premier Inn Dublin South Docklands – opening end 2022/early 2023 Location: Gloucester Street/Princes Street South, Close to Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Number of Keys: 113 Seller: The site was a warehouse acquired by the developer – Red Rock Developments Buyer: Aviva Investors…

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Boscalt Hospitality Acquire 100-Key Hotel Majestic Rome

Main Photo: The Hotel Majestic Rome terrace dining, a Grande-Dame property Date: June 2022 Name: Hotel Majestic Location: Via Vittorio Veneto, Rome, Italy Number of Keys: 100…to refurb as 83 rooms and suites Seller: We believe the hotel is/was owned by EGA Esercizio Grandi Alberghi Srl, founded in 1921. Buyer: Boscalt Hospitality Edmond de Rothschild‘s…

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Cycas Hospitality Add Bankside Hotel, London To Their Management Portfolio, After Sale to Vertiq Capital

Main Photo: The stylish, art-led hotel in London’s Bankside Date: June 2022 Name: Bankside Hotel, An Autograph Collection Hotel Location: Bankside, close to Waterloo station, London, England, UK Number of Keys: 161 Seller: An affiliate of the Realstar group of companies and it’s joint venture partner Amerimar Enterprises  Buyer: Vertiq Capital, a Private Equity company,…

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GIC and APG Acquire a Substantial Stake in The Student Hotel From Aermont Capital, Valuing the Company at €2.1 billion

Main Photo: The Student Hotel Amsterdam City, one of two hotels there Date: June 2022 Name: The Student Hotel Locations: In Europe currently… two hotels each in Amsterdam and Barcelona and one in each of Berlin, The Hague, Delft, Vienna, Groningen, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Rotterdam, Paris, Florence and Bologna. Three opening this year in Madrid, a third…

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Invesco Adds Three Hotel Assets to European Hotel Programme for €100m

Main Photo: The reception area at the five-star Vincci Seleccion hotel Date: June 2022 Names: Holiday Inn Express, The Hague – Parliament; Hotel Occidental 1929, Barcelona and Vincci Selección, Malaga Locations: As above – Netherlands and Spain Number of Keys: HIE Hague – 123; Hotel Occidental 1929 – 152; Vincci Seleccion – 106 – Total:…

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The Ritz-Carlton Debuts in Amman, Jordan

Main Photo: The new Ritz-Carlton Amman Date: June 2022 Name: The Ritz-Carlton Amman Location: Fifth Circle, Amman, Jordan Number of Keys: 228 Seller: TBA Buyer: Al Eqbal is the master developer of two upcoming esteemed properties in Amman, Jordan, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel and The Ritz-Carlton Residences. Marriott have announced the opening of The Ritz-Carlton, Amman,…

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Yotel Opens Fifth UK City-Centre Hotel, In London’s Shoreditch

Main Photo: The Premium Queen room at the new YOTEL London Shoreditch Date: June 2022 Name: YOTEL London Shoreditch Location: Cambridge Heath Road, East London, England, UK Number of Keys: 161 Seller: The site was formerly the East London hotel, opened in late 2018, by JMH Group/Definition Capital, led by Irfan Hussain and Marin Jakisic,…

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Accor In Talks To Sell €185m Ennismore Stake To Qatari Consortium

Main Photo: The Hoxton Barcelona, an Ennismore hotel Date: June 2022 Name: Ennismore Locations: Global Number of Keys: 130 hotels – Keys: TBA Seller: Accor/Sharan Pasricha Buyer: A Qatari consortium, with the deal to include €20m of Shariah compliant financing by Qatar First Bank to the Qatari consortium’s investment vehicle. Accor is in talks to…

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Starhotels To Open 150 Apartments In Florence With Hines and Blue Noble

Main Photo: The new Starhotels apartments, Florence – imagined Date: June 2022 Name: Il Teatro Luxury Apartment – Starhotels Collezione – to open 2024 Location: Corso Italia, formerly home to the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino, Florence, Italy Number of Keys: 150 apartments Lessee: Starhotels Owner: Joint investors Hines and Blue Noble Joint investors Hines and Blue…

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