Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Starwood Capital is accessing the commercial mortgage-backed securities market to refinance debt on a portfolio of 58 extended-stay hotels, as well as the construction costs of several recently built hotel properties.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: A serviced apartment project at the Coopers Building on Liverpool’s Church Street has been given the green light by planners.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Scottish government is being lobbied to give serviced apartments and aparthotels exemption from its new licensing plans for short-term lets.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUAE: IHG has opened Staybridge Suites Dubai Al-Maktoum Dubai Airport, the brand’s first property in the emirate.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: A plan to convert the former Victoria Hospital for Sick Children on Hull’s Park Street has been given conditional approval.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Bristol serviced apartment provider Your Apartment is set to open Merchants House, a converted former student accommodation building in December.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith these new units, Ascott has added a record high of more than 5,600 units across 26 properties, which represent a 60 per cent year-on-year

Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: The UK Government is placing the City of London under “high level” Tier Two restrictions, effective from midnight on Friday / Saturday morning, affecting around nine million citizens in the capital.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: International Hospitality Media, the publisher of Serviced Apartment News, has hosted the first in a series of limited capacity business networking events.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Supercity Aparthotels has opened Q Square in Brighton, its second property outside London.