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Keeping the (real estate) values in view

Oliver Hopp, owner of the Four Seasons Provence and the Buehlerhoehe

2.11.2007

Terre Blanche. The slim young man with hair down to his shoulders symbolises the new generation of hotel investors: lifestyle-oriented and focused on yield. Despite this, Oliver Hopp has a sense of values - personal values and real estate values. The eldest son of the German SAP founder Dietmar Hopp has increasingly been dealing with the hotel real estate of the family empire worth a billion. The family almost never appears in the media. Consequently, it is even more agreeable to meet directly with Oliver Hopp and the family's owner representative, Ulrich Honold, in an informal atmosphere in the Four Seasons at Terre Blanche in the Provence region in France. The luxury hotel is one of three hotels belonging to the Hopp family. Of course there may be more hotels - but not at all costs.

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