Reading Time: 3 minutes UK: room2 has completed the sale and leaseback of its flagship Southampton property, to a fund managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), the UK’s largest active asset manager.

Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Developer Espalier Property Ventures has submitted plans for a 142-key, five-storey aparthotel on Clapham Road in Kennington, south London.

Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: The landlords of up to 40 Travelodge hotels are planning to replace the flag with Lamington Group’s room2 brand, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.

Reading Time: 2 minutes N. Ireland: The pre-let of a 175-bed aparthotel on Queen Street in Belfast has been signed by room2 hometels, backed by the Lamington Group.

Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: room2 will operate a 90-key ‘hometel’ at Fulham Town Hall in west London.

Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: 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 minute UK: The Lamington Group will begin work on a room2 aparthotel on the site of a former Chiswick office building in Q2 2019.

Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: room2 has appointed James Nichols as general manager of its Southampton “hometel” property.