Christie & Co is Europe’s leading specialist adviser for buying and selling businesses in our sectors hotels, healthcare, childcare, pubs, restaurants, convenience retail and leisure with almost 90 years of experience. We employ the largest team of hotel and healthcare specialists in Europe, providing professional brokerage and advisory services from 11
international offices in Germany, Austria, France and Spain and 11 offices across UK with our headquarters in London. This network of 22 offices allows us to leverage local market knowledge with pan-European insight.
In the hotel and healthcare sectors we complete around 500 transactions and over 500 valuations per year. Currently, we have more than 430 ongoing hotel instructions throughout Europe.
Christie & Co is regulated by RICS and employs registered valuers, specialist-chartered surveyors and a sector leading consulting team. We have built a strong team of industry professionals, to provide market-leading commercial advice and support to clients.
Activities and services of Christie & Co include various services:
- Transaction support in sales/acquisition of individual assets or portfolios
- Operator search and selection
- Support with contract negotiations (lease, franchise, management)
- Site scouting
- Sales price estimates for hotels and healthcare properties
- Exit strategies for NPLs
- Location and market analyses
- Feasibility studies
- Cashflow and rent benchmark analyses
- Independent business review and strategic consulting (individual assets or portfolios)
- Review and validation of business plans
- Commercial due diligence
- Asset management support and performance monitoring
- RICS compliant valuations for individual assets or portfolios
- Second opinions
- Advice on operating contracts and conceptual support in drafting heads of terms
- Identification of alternative operators
Lukas Hochedlinger MRICS, Managing Director Central & Northern Europe, leads the Christie & Co team in Germany and Austria with our offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna. He is supported, among others, by Hannes Schied, Head of Hotel Consultancy Germany, and Marlon Schramm, Head of HealthCare Germany, who is responsible for the healthcare real estate division in Germany.