Reading Time: 2 minutesMalaysia: The first Ascott-branded serviced residence – Ascott Gurney Penang – is set open in Q2021.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: City of York Council has decided to take no action after discovering a Roomzzz aparthotel is 25 centimetres taller than its planning permission allows.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIreland: A briefing about Dublin’s hotel market has head that the upsurge in development of aparthotels is the most significant structural change in the city‘s market in many years

Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: A planning board hearing in to the €180 million Project Opera mixed-use scheme in Limerick is set to decide the scheme’s fate in late January.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Aparthotel operator Staycity Group has announced that its newly launched property development venture, Realstay Developments, will be headed up by Frank Dowling.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: room2 has appointed Mark Harris, the former head of UK & Ireland and managing director at The Carlyle Group, as strategic investment partner.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew Zealand: Quest Apartment Hotels has named its franchisee and supplier of the year at its New Zealand and Fiji Network Conference 2019.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteKenya: Cytonn, a financial investment company, has ventured into the serviced apartment industry to diversify its financial base. The firm’s CEO Edwin Dande said the

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSingapore: Oakwood Premier OUE Singapore general manager Roy Liang has been promoted to regional general manager, overseeing Oakwood’s properties in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.

Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Extended Stay America (ESA) has appointed former WoodSpring Hotels CEO Bruce Haase as president and CEO.