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Hotel developer GBI moves further into the resort business
Good projects always find investors
13.10.2006

Berlin. For the hotel industry, the year 2001 and the time that followed the Tsunami was a catastrophe in all senses and investors were correspondingly reticent in their activity. But according to Reiner Nittka, Managing Director of the Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen und Immobilien-Projektentwicklungen mbH in Berlin, this has all changed - and he is busy buying up hotels.

Private Equity stirs up Germany - The market's mood
"Locusts" love industries in states of flux
6.10.2006

Frankfurt/M. Private Equity companies are stirring up the German economy. They invest capital of anonymous institutional investors in real estate or companies of various types. Their exit within the following ten years is to bring the investors the desired profit. Financial experts from Germany recorded chances and risks of these takeovers. A look at the mood in the market and at its conditions.

Raffles to be delisted
6.10.2006

Singapore. CapitaLand, which owns 59% of Raffles Holdings, said it planned to delist its Raffles Holdings and will offer minority shareholders an exit price of 6 Singapore cents a share.

Private equity goes travel - soon in Germany?
Only the best will taste
6.10.2006

Frankfurt/M. Private Equity funds still look at the travel industry bearing too many risks. This was one opinion in the Travel Industry Club's discussion in Frankfurt. Another panellist sounded different and seemed willing to enter the hospitality industry. But Private Equity funds will only take the best. Two hotel experts confirm the continuous trend in the hotel industry.

Selective and focused on foreign countries
1.9.2006

Wiesbaden. Aareal Bank is well positioned in the hotel financing segment. Despite this, its experts regard the hotel business as the high-risk segment of the real estate industry.The financing strategy favours business and conference hotels, mainly outside Germany.

Investors in Germany prefer short-term investments
4.8.2006

Munich. The hotel investment volume reached a nationwide 682 million euros in the first half of 2006. This extraordinarily high level is 22% above the average volume from 2001 through to 2005. Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels expects 2006 to be a record year with a likely volume of more than one billion euros.

JLL Hotels with mega-deals for Ritz-Carlton
28.7.2006

Munich. Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Bank and Aareal Bank have concluded a contract with Capital Partners for the refinancing of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow at a price of over 160 million Euros. At the same time, the sale of the Hotel Arts in Barcelona, another Ritz-Carlton Hotel, was completed to become the biggest single real estate transaction in Spanish history.

German Acron group to invest in Radisson SAS Zurich Airport
The type of investment makes the difference
28.7.2006

 

Berlin. International airports are becoming increasingly real estate and economic locations and their operators are similar to gigantic businesses. And the buildings being constructed there are gigantic as well: At Zurich Kloten Airport, a Radisson SAS Hotel will soon be built, financed by the German Acron group. With its unusual financing model, this investment company has discovered Switzerland to be an interesting region for German investors.

Questionable fund for Airport Hotel Muenster
21.7.2006

Muenster/Osnabrueck. The brochure leaves many questions unanswered. This is why, the fondstelegramm.de online service cautions against a fund that plans to erect and then rent an airport hotel at Muenster/Osnabrueck Airport. Arcadia Nord GmbH is the lessee and operator of the hotel. It will conclude a franchise agreement with the Holiday Inn chain.

InterConti Frankfurt and six more sold
14.7.2006

London. InterContinental Hotels Group plc has agreed to sell a portfolio of seven InterContinental branded hotels located in Continental Europe to the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds. IHG previously announced in January 2006 that these hotels had been put on the market.

Stock Exchange

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Financial Results

HI+Positive only

New York . "The last twelve months have been a watershed year for Cendant," stated Cendant's President and Chief Financial Officer Ronald L. Nelson.

HI+Pressure in the back

Budapest. The improvement in revenues masks another year of tough trading conditions for the Hungarin hotel chain Danubius.

HI+Higher revenues, less income

Madrid. Though the company achieved savings of 38 million Euros last year and made good progress in several countries, NH Hotels` net income fell down by 17 percent. 

HI+Safe net

White Plains/New York. The tight net of own hotel brands in various locations helped Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to gain positive results last year.

HI+Many more properties ahead

Toronto . Isadore Sharp, Chairman and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, signed twelve "letters intent" in 2004, more than the company ever achieved in any single year.
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