Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Tharaldson Hospitality Management (THM) has opened a 104-key Homewood Suites extended stay hotel in Livermore, California.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAustria: Ascott has signed a management contract with SIGNA Real Estate and ARE Austrian Real Estate for its first property in Austria.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a one month national lockdown for England, effective Thursday 5 November and lasting until 2 December.

Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: The UK Short Term Accommodation Association [STAA] has followed up its successful nationwide “NHS Homes” initiative with the launch of a new scheme, “Trusted Stays”, to offer NHS staff and key government workers discounted safe and clean accommodation near their places of work, to help protect them and their families as the UK’s Covid-19 infection rates rise.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetherlands: Corporate Housing Factory has launched its new website, corporatehousingfactory.com, which serves as a booking engine and guide for its six properties in the Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Eindhoven.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Brookfield has raised £1 billion (€1.14 billion) for its latest property fund, which will buy assets across Europe’s biggest markets.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAustralia: The Sebel will open its latest serviced apartment property, in the Victorian town of Yarrawonga, next month, with two further properties to follow in 2021.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVietnam: The average rent for serviced apartments in Ho Chi Minh City has fallen to a five-year low, according to data from Savills.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Approval has been granted to add a rooftop extension to a Nottingham building to add an extra seven serviced apartments.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe startup, which was founded in 2018 by Lars Stänke and Josef Vollmayr, raised €21 million in the first portion of the funding round back in