News & Stories

Wiesbaden. Hotel groups and operators such as NH, MHP or Orascom consistently report increased demand and decreasing losses for Q1 or the whole year 2022. In Germany, however, 36,000 hospitality businesses have given up in the past year.

Frankfurt. There are many good ideas in the hospitality and gastronomy industry, but many simply do not take notice of them. F&B Heroes wants to change that with its new investment club for start-ups. From the industry for the industry!

Vienna. Austria continues to promote tourism with millions, but with a focus on sustainability and resilience. The subsidy for the investment is combined with the subsidized loan. Not only buildings but also employees benefit from this.

Munich. How committed are funds to ESG? For institutional investors, sustainability is a must-have; the majority of open-ended real estate funds are already actively implementing the requirements, while AIFs - the former closed-end real estate funds - are making slower progress. ESG rating agencies provide guidance, but evaluating ESG areas remains complex. Among the hotel groups, a&o Hostels have taken a big step.

Munich. Open and closed-end real estate funds have to cope with declining demand, high regulatory requirements and the issue of ESG, all in addition to the effects of multiple crises. Their exposure to asset classes has changed, with residential displacing shopping centres, but there are also renewed calls to invest in hotels. A look at the funds industry, another industry in transition.

London. Hotel values across Europe rose around 3% in 2022 with Paris, London, Zurich, Amsterdam and Rome remaining those with the highest valued hotels.

Milan. Growing inflation and rising ECB interest rates have led to a widespread wait-and-see attitude towards hospitality real estate deals in Italy in the second half of the year 2022.

London. Despite the geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds in the back half of 2022, Europe welcomed almost 70% of the world’s travellers. The region was the front runner in the re-emergence of international travel and opportunities for cross border hotel investment.

Beijing. The Chinese government has started to encourage again investment overseas, including hotel groups and other tourism infrastructure. This is a fundamental turnaround again.

Rosenheim. In times of low interest rates, investors look for alternative ways to invest money, and SMEs search for a favourable financing mix. Crowdinvesting has been pushing into this gap. Some hotel groups are also now taking interest. Falkensteiner just raised millions again and has even founded its own investment platform. Crowd investing remains popular but has its pitfalls as it operates in the grey capital market. The renowned German financial journalist Stefan Loipfinger analyses the crowd with its ups and downs.