Urban Living Festival
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Six reasons why Urban Living Festival is not to be missed

Reading Time: 5 minutes UK: IHM’s Urban Living Festival [ULF] returns for its third edition on 5-6 July 2023 as CEOs, ‘best of breed’ speakers and attendees, sponsors and solution providers come together to collectively share best practice, network, map the industry’s future and do business from right across the travel, hospitality and real estate landscape.

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Hotels are adopting the serviced apartment business model in order to survive

Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in early March I wrote an article for our sister publication Boutique Hotel News about a trending buzzword in real estate circles – the “hotelisation” of real estate. Basically it means the application of hotel-type services and a hospitality service ethos to other real estate classes such as offices and homes.

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Serviced apartments planned for former whisky company HQ

Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: A planning applications to convert the Teacher Building on St Enoch Square in Glasgow into a whisky-themed bar and restaurant, with 25 serviced apartments on its upper floors, has been submitted.

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Hospitality M&A: the OpCo and PropCo story

Reading Time: 5 minutes Andrew Harrington of AHV Associates looks at the increasing levels of merger and acquisition activity in the hospitality sector. This is where the hospitality industry comes in. Hotel properties have only recently become mainstream assets for generalist real estate investors, while hotel operating companies have remained mostly untouched by financial

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Blurred lines and convergence in the Middle East

Reading Time: < 1 minute As we continue to make preparations for the first Serviced Apartment Summit MEA conference in Dubai, it’s been fascinating to see how the Middle East is at the forefront of the increasingly blurred lines between once-distinct sectors of the hospitality industry. Serviced apartments and residential real estate investment plays overlap