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Savills - UK Hotel Investment

As always Savills has produced some brillaint insights into the UK Leisure sector, this time in the form of the UK Hotel Investment research.

Edited by Marie Hickey, Director of Commercial Research, it shows that 2017 was a watershed for leased investment in UK Hotels.

The report full report can be read or downloaded in podf format from the Savills website or by clicking the link here.

Total UK hotel transaction volumes reached £5.4 billion in 2017, exceeding the 2016 total by 32%, with regional activity accounting for 62% of total volumes 

Much of this increased activity was driven by overseas investors as the currency play continued to heighten the UK's attractiveness as an investment destination. As a result overseas buyers accounted for 51% of total volumes, spending nearly three times that deployed in 2016.

US and European investors dominated activity in value terms, spending £682 million and £763 million respectively, albeit this was driven by a small number of deals (Map 1). For example, Sweden's Pandox AB (publ.) acquired the Jury's Inn portfolio for £680 million and US private equity firm Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation purchased the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel for £575 million.