Board

2012

Business Outlook

Hotel Transactions 2011 – Regional

Date

Properties / Properties

Total bedrooms

Total sale price Purchaser

Vendor

Howard Hotel, Edinburgh; Channings Hotel, Edinburgh Wellington Hotel, Boscastle

January

59

£9m

Palm Holdings

Town House Company Ltd

January

15

£1.65m

Cornish Coastal Hotels

Paul Roberts

Administrators of Elizabeth Hotels (KPMG)

February Copdock Hotel, Ipswich

76

circa £2m Steve and Jane Denton

February Polurrian Hotel, Cornwall

39

£2.3m

Halcyon Hotels & Resorts

The Barlow family Administrators of Wren’s Hotel Group

Sir Christopher Wren’s House Hotel, Windsor

March

95

circa £13m Sarova Hotels

Administrators of Beetham Hotels Manchester (KPMG) Administrators of Beetham Hotels Liverpool (KPMG) Administrators of Malvern Spa (Baker Tilly) Administrators of Shelleys Hotel (FRP Advisory) RBS

March

Hilton Manchester Deansgate

279

£47.5m

Blue Manchester (Loucas Louca)

March

Radisson Blu Liverpool

194

£12.5m

Blue Liverpool (Loucas Louca)

March

Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel

328

£39.25m

Topland Group

April

Malvern Hotel & Spa

32

Undisclosed Huw Watson/Helen Rogers

April

Shelleys Hotel, East Sussex

19

Undisclosed Colonnade Hotels

April

No 10 Hotel, Edinburgh White Swan Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon Pinewood Hotel, Wilmslow

30

£5m

Shanti Hospitality Group

Louise Koch Leonard

April

41

Undisclosed Fuller’s

Pebble Hotels

May

58

£2.25m

Owners of the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal Menzies Hotels

Former Mercure London Gatwick Airport hotel

May

257

£40m

Travelodge and PRUPIM

Arora Hotels

Administrators of Blue Cedars Leisure ( PricewaterhouseCoopers) Administrators of Pedersen Hotels (Grant Thornton) Administrators of Pedersen Hotels (Grant Thornton)

May

Mount Hotel, Wolverhampton

66

£3.8m

Aspen Leisure

May

Winchester Hotel, Winchester

98

Undisclosed Quantum Hotels

June

Crowne Plaza Reading

122

£12.75m

Redefine Hotels Reading

June June

Eaves Hall, Waddington

34

£3m £3m

James Places

Richardson Hotels

Brockencote Hall, Kidderminster

17

Eden Hotel Collection

The Petitjean family

Administrators of the Nottingham Gateway Hotel ( BDO)

June

Nottingham Gateway Hotel

108

£4.5m

Exceptional Hotels and Resorts

Longrose Buccleuch, Hotbed (investor syndicate), Santander Corporate Banking — the hotel will be operated as a DoubleTree by Hilton Cairn Hotel Group — the hotel will be operated as a DoubleTree by Hilton

Administrators of Pedersen Hotels (Grant Thornton)

June

Sheffield Park Hotel, Sheffield

95

£4m

Administrators of Rostock ( Zolfo Cooper)

July

Newcastle Airport Hotel (part-built)

179

£25m

Note: Details of the transactions listed in the tables above are taken from information in the public domain and Christie + Co cannot warrant their accuracy.

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