Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Chatham Lodging Trust, a hospitality real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in upscale extended-stay hotels, has announced that chief investment officer Peter Willis is stepping down from the company.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Wythenshawe hospital in Manchester is set to be redeveloped in to a “health village”, including a rebuilt hospital, affordable housing for nurses and an aparthotel for patients.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Co-working company LABS has opend serviced apartment under its STAY brand in Camden, north London.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Belfast-based developer Big Top Productions has submitted plans for the conversion of a former police station into a 74-bedroom aparthotel.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany: Swiss operator SV Group has opened the dual-branded Marriott property in Werksviertel, Munich’s former factory district.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The iconic Whitehall Old War Office, which was acquired by the Hinduja Group in 2014, will be operated as a hotel and sevriced apartments under the Raffles brand.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: The €180 million Project Opera scheme has been granted planning consent by An Bord Pleanala.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: San Francisco-based hospitality start-up Lyric, which numbers Airbnb among its investors, is to lay off 25 of its 120 staff and close up to 200 units.