Germany: A joint venture between Fraport Casa Commercial GmbH and developer GBI is planning a mixed-use property directly at Frankfurt Airport in the Gateway Gardens quarter.
Germany: Reiner Nittka, CEO of Germany’s largest hotel real estate developer GBI AG, says serviced apartments “are coping much better” with the crisis than hotels.
Austria: Developer GBI has held an official topping-out ceremony for the Graz IntercityHotel, which will offer 229 rooms and 187 student apartments in a separate SMARTments student block.
Around 130 professionals from the serviced apartment and broader hospitality sectors converged on Berlin last week for the second annual RECHARGE event. George Sell reports. Hosted at the Colonia Nova venue, the 2019 RECHARGE event picked up where last year’s Amsterdam debut left off, with a great atmosphere of collaboration and
You don’t need to be a prophet to predict that the world in the next five years will change faster and more thoroughly than in any previous five-year period – a rule that is bound to prevail. Digitalisation, significant demographic shifts, new work and business structures plus changed mobility are
First and foremost: The guests should feel good all around. This, in a nutshell, is the main purpose of every lodging business, isn’t it? What is already a huge challenge for hotels even becomes a mammoth task for operators of serviced apartments, for the needs of the individual guests in
The low-interest phase has now lasted almost eight years and is increasingly attracting the attention of institutional investors to the real estate market. Hotel properties and serviced apartments are now among the investment properties that are coming under close scrutiny. For GBI AG this is naturally an exciting and promising
In the second of a series of reports from Germany, Jan Winterhoff, director of hotel development at GBI AG, describes how project developers survey site conditions and why Mixed-Use is a good concept for the future. This week, important decisions will be made in Europe on how the hotel market,
In the first of a series of reports from Germany, Reiner Nittka, CEO of GBI AG, looks at the rapid growth of the country’s serviced apartment sector. Barely ten years ago concepts such as “serviced apartments” and “business living” would have drawn blank looks in the hotel and accommodation sector
Jan Winterhoff, director of hotel development at GBI AG, talks to SAN about the German serviced apartment sector and the company’s international expansion plans. • When did GBI first become involved with the serviced apartment/extended stay sector, and what was the initial motivation to enter the market? “GBI AG is
