Urban Living News
Nottingham student accommodation development approved
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Nottingham City Council has approved a project to build a 522-bed student accommodation development near the city’s central railway station.
Urban Living News
Common partners with City Pads for Chicago apartments
Reading Time: 2 minutes US: Common has partnered with City Pads to open a 223-bed coliving apartment building in Chicago’s Little Italy that aims to provide affordable and quality housing to Illinois Medical District workers.
Urban Living News
Expedia set to phase out short-term rental multifamily business
Reading Time: 3 minutes US: As Expedia Group strategises its recovery from the standstill in bookings during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is believed to be preparing to phase out its short-term rental multifamily building business, which includes its Expedia Group Multifamily Solutions product.
Urban Living News
Snapshot: urban living – the hospitality and real estate winners and losers
Reading Time: 8 minutes The COVID-19 humanitarian challenge will have lasting effects on how people stay, live and work in the future.
Industry News
Minor Hotels targets Africa with Oaks extended stay brand
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thailand: Minor Hotels has appointed a regional director for Africa and plans to launch its oaks extended stay brand on the continent.
Industry News
East London school set for aparthotel conversion
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: A proposal to build a 31-key aparthotel on the site of a former school in Ilford has been submitted to Redbridge Council.
Industry News
International Hospitality Media launches Urban Living Festival
Reading Time: 4 minutes SAN publisher International Hospitality Media has announced the launch of the Urban Living Festival, which will take place in London in early July.
Features
The next generation of extended stay concepts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mindsets are changing, consumer behaviors are developing, and the extended-stay sector is adjusting. At SAS Recharge, the sector’s most boundary-pushing conference, delegates came together to discuss the latest trends, developments and innovations. The conference agenda facilitated a ‘think-tank session’ to trigger the collective force of the delegates’ creative minds and
Industry News
Priestley plans aparthotel in Warrington town centre
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Leeds-based developer Priestley is planning an aparthotel in a former post office at Palmyra Square, one of two schemes it is proposing for Warrington town centre.
Features
Supplier spotlight: in-room technology
Reading Time: 7 minutes SAN rounds up the latest innovations in virtual concierge applications and in-room technology. Criton Criton allows serviced apartments and hotels to wrap all of their guest-facing technology into a fully customisable, branded app for guests to download onto their own phone. Criton CEO and founder, Julie Grieve, said: “Improved guest