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6 March 2017, London: Hotels in Eastern Europe are benefitting from tough times in Western Europe with room values in the region seeing an impressive 11% average growth, according to the 2017 European Hotel Valuation Index (HVI) published this week by global hotel consultancy HVS. In a year that saw little change in values across […]

Staycity Aparthotels has announced Markus Beike as development director Germany & CEE, with a special focus on developing the brand in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. Beike, who holds a business management degree (Diplom-Betriebswirt FH), a real estate management degree (Immobilienökonom ebs) and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors MRICS, joins […]

1 March 2017, London: Hotel transaction volume across Europe reached €17.8 billion in 2016, down 25% on the previous year’s record volume, according to the annual European Hotel Transactions report, published this week by HVS and its brokerage and investment services division HVS Hodges Ward Elliott. While portfolio activity halved to €7.2 billion-worth of sales, […]

24 February 2017, London: Europe has seen an upturn in the availability of hotel financing due to low interest rates and strong performance, according to the annual European Hotel Lending Survey, published this week by brokerage and investment services specialist HVS Hodges Ward Elliott. “The widespread availability of bank financing for hotels is partly due […]

Business Travel Show, London: Staycity Aparthotels, one of Europe’s largest independent aparthotel operators, is to open its second site in Manchester in May in the city’s modernist ‘s-shaped’ building, Gateway House, situated alongside Piccadilly railway station. Business guests are a key audience for the new Staycity Manchester Piccadilly with facilities that include four meeting rooms […]

Leading aparthotel operator Staycity Aparthotels has today [1 February] opened in Marseille, the first of two new Staycity properties in France. Staycity already operates an aparthotel in the busy and popular 10th district of Paris, minutes from the Gare de Paris-Est transport hub, and today adds Staycity Marseille to its expanding portfolio. The property, based […]

17 January 2017, London: Tourism in Iceland has experienced unprecedented growth since 2010 resulting in a healthy rise in occupancy levels amongst the country’s hotel supply and prompting alternative accommodation to flourish, according to a new report from global hotel consultancy HVS. Media coverage of the volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 heightened global awareness […]

Dessert cafés, all-day brunch, bespoke dishes cooked to order and a growth in the use of third-party food delivery firms are amongst the key eating out trends for the year ahead, according to foodservice consultancy Horizons. Consumers’ on-going preference for eating what they want, when they want it, whether a power breakfast, healthy snack, or […]

Dublin-based aparthotel operator Staycity has announced the appointment of Simon Walford MRICS as Development Director UK. Walford is the first of several senior appointments that will be made to strengthen the company’s development team across Europe and play a pivotal part in achieving the growth strategy that will take it to 15,000 apartments by 2022. […]

Leading aparthotel operator Staycity is putting France firmly in its sights with the announcement of two premises opening in the country in 2017. Staycity already operates an aparthotel in the busy and popular 10th district of Paris, minutes from the Gare de Paris-Est transport hub, and will add Staycity Marseille to its portfolio when it […]