Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Knight Frank’s Hotel Transaction Trends 2021 research reveals that investment volumes in 2020 reached £1.8 billion in the United Kingdom compared to £6 billion in 2019, with 81 per cent of the transaction volume occurring in quarter one.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: A new aparthotel in Bristol’s Clifton neighbourhood is offering a contactless guest experience and expects to be two-thirds full for the first quarter of this year.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Developer Duncan Birch, who had secured planning consent for an aparthotel project in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, is scrapping the proposals in favour of an office building with rooftop bar.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Q Apartments has announced the addition of design-led apartments developed in partnership with Irish design studio House + Garden.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Hospitality tech company Jurny has announced its expansion into the European serviced apartment and aparthotel market with its first location in London.

Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Following news that England enters a national lockdown on Wednesday 6th January, chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a one-off grant up to £9000 for businesses in hospitality, leisure and retail.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe program will allow essential travellers’ quarantine time to be halved to just five days post-test. The offer allows guests staying with Dream Apartments across

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Choice Hotels International has awarded franchise agreements to Gulf Coast Hotel Management to convert 15 properties to the MainStay Suites brand.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: National Corporate Housing has announced the acquisition of the assets of V-Suites, a corporate housing entity with apartment inventory primarily in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Minnesota.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: HCB (2020) LLC, which was formerly known as BridgeStreet, owed nearly $90 million, before it filed for US bankruptcy late last year.