Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: The 136-key Residence Inn by Marriott in Natick, Massachusetts has opened its doors.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOman: Frasers Hospitality has won the World’s Leading Serviced Apartment Brand at the World Travel Awards for the sixth year running.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSingapore: A redevelopment of Liang Court in Singapore will see Ascott Reit sell part of its interest in Somerset Liang Court Singapore to developer CDL.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAustralia: Maple Development Group, a subsidiary of Chinese developer Peng Bo, has lodged plans for a $200 million apartment tower in central Brisbane.

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.