Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The UK Short Term Accommodation Association [STAA] has announced a new partnership with global research house STR to launch a unique tracking study that will measure the performance of serviced apartments, short-term rental accommodations and hotels, starting with a pilot in London this month.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIreland: Plans for an aparthotel in Dublin’s Phibsborough neighbourhood have been successfully opposed by local residents who claimed such a development was unsuitable for the area.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Queensgate Investments and Rockwell have been given permission to redevelop the Kensington Forum, which will become a £1 billion hotel and serviced apartments complex.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: A 132-key aparthotel on Belfast’s Bedford Street will bringing hundreds of jobs to the area according to the scheme’s architect.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Clarendon Apartments has appointed Savills to sell 140 Minories, a 14-key serviced apartment freehold property in the City of London.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Stay Company, which owns four properties in Derby, has opened its first Nottingham property in West Bridgford.

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.