Tag: hotels



Landmark Washington Hotel Sold

Posted on 2 February, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Worldwide Property News

One of Washington’s landmark hotels has been sold and moth balled prior to a multi-million dollar redevelopment. Details surrounding the sale by Stanford Hotels Corporation of its L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in downtown Washington D.C. are still sketchy with new... Read More

£2m Price Tag for Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn

Posted on 27 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Top Properties

Jamaica Inn hotel — Cornwall’s legendary coaching house immortalised in Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name — is being sold for £2m. Included in the price is the desk on which the novelist wrote Rebecca and several of her other... Read More

Dublin Rents to Rise with Wave of New Developments

Posted on 24 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Commercial rents in the Irish capital could rise by as much as 15 per cent this year as the city braces itself for a record number of  commercial developments. Two of Ireland’s leading estate agents have confirmed the office market is leading the recovery... Read More

Five London Hotel Openings to Watch in 2014

Posted on 20 January, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Business News

According to data released by Deloitte earlier this week, the UK hotels market has rebounded strongly since the end of the financial crisis, with the value of transactions skyrocketing in the second half of 2013. The Shard's Shangri-La Hotel will open... Read More

Newcastle’s Stephenson Quarter set for 2015 Completion

Posted on 14 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

After years of funding delays Newcastle’s £200m Stephenson Quarter development now looks set to welcome its first tenants by the summer of 2015. The 10-acre site behind Newcastle Central Station — named after the Robert Stephenson train making... Read More

Controversy Hit Irish ‘Bad Bank’ Still Making Billions from Property

Posted on 12 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Worldwide Property News

Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) generated almost €6bn last year from rents and by selling off chunks of its vast property portfolio. Overtaken by controversy almost from the day it was created in 2010, the state’s so-called... Read More

Fast Growing Dominvs Moves On Scottish Sites

Posted on 7 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments, Commercial Sales and Lets

The hospitality arm of London-based property company Dominvs Group has unveiled plans to build three hotels north of the border. Founded in 2011 by Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia, the millionaire entrepreneur behind Euro Car Parts, Dominvs intends to build... Read More

Irish Hotel Market Heats Up

Posted on 4 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets

Ireland’s tourism and hospitality industries are reflecting the country’s financial upturn with more than £116m worth of hotel deals either sealed or underway. Within the past few months sales have been agreed on 15 hotels, together worth €96m ,... Read More

Scotland Yard to Welcome a Different Kind of Guest

Posted on 18 December, 2013 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments, Commercial Sales and Lets

Scotland Yard — the backdrop to thousands of crime stories and hundreds of film and television mysteries — is being converted into a £10,000-a-night luxury hotel. The Grade II listed former headquarters of the Metropolitan Police is one of a... Read More

Whitbread Sales Boosted by strong Costa Performance

Posted on 12 December, 2013 by Kirsten Kennedy under Business News

With Christmas fast approaching, consumers across the UK will be hitting their nearest high street in order to purchase gifts for friends and family, greatly boosting the festive spirits of retailers nationwide. However, with the chill of winter settling in... Read More