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Crowne Plaza Surfers Paradise in Australia has been put on the market by its owners - a Singaporean family - for more than A$100 million, said marketing agent CBRE Hotels. Standing on a 1.2-hectare site, the resort complex comprises the 269-room Crowne Plaza Hotel currently operated by IHG, management rights for the 104-room Gold Tower, retail space, a tavern, 15 function venues and multiple food and...

Ascendas Hospitality Trust has on June 15 entered into an agreement with ES-CON Japan via Ascendas Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust (A-HReit) to acquire three hotels in Japan’s Osaka city for a purchase consideration of 10.29 billion Japanese yen (S$126.1 million). The manager of the hospitality trust said that the acquisition of the three hotels, Hotel WBF Kitasemba West, Hotel WBF Kitasemba...

Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore's Tanjong Pagar has been named this year's Best Tall Building Worldwide by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a global authority on tall buildings and future cities that confers the award annually. The 27-storey skyscraper by developer Far East Organization and designed by award-winning architecture firm Woha features a plant-covered facade of red...

EL Development has signed a memorandum of understanding with Accor for the French hotel chain to manage a new hotel that the Singapore property developer will build in Hill Street. Accor will manage the hotel under its Pullman brand - this will be the first Pullman in Singapore, EL Development managing director Lim Yew Soon told The Business Times in a recent interview. "Singapore is one of the major...

RB Capital is considering sale of its Park Hotel Farrer Park, after receiving unsolicited offers since the hotel began operations just about a month ago. Kishin RK, chief executive of RB Capital, said the 300-room hotel was recently valued at about S$390 million, or S$1.3 million per room, but added: "We are not quoting a specific price but will let the market determine the true price of this upscale...

AccorHotels , Europe's largest hotel group, is creating a new lifestyle division to pool its fast-growing "boutique" hotel brands, the company said on Monday. From Feb. 1, Cedric Gobilliard will head the division, which comprises the Jo&Joe youth hostel brand and AccorHotels' stakes in Germany's 25hours Hotels and France's MamaShelter brands. Boutique hotels are usually small, stylishly-designed,...

French multinational company AccorHotels will be investing S$24 million into Singapore-based hospitality brand Banyan Tree Holdings, the latter said in a press release on Thursday (Dec 8). Under the long-term partnership, both parties intend to work together to develop and manage Banyan Tree branded hotels around the world. Banyan Tree will also have access to AccorHotels’ global reservations and...

Goodwood Park Hotel, once one of the best-known listed companies here, is offering to buy out its remaining minority shareholders. The Khoo family used Hotel Holdings, a private vehicle, to mount a voluntary unconditional cash offer yesterday for all the remaining shares it does not own at $43 per share. The offer values the company at $1.85 billion. The Straits Times understands that there are 183...

The hotel that was formerly known as Movenpick Heritage Hotel Sentosa and is being rebranded into a Le Meridien has been put on the market. Sources say the asking price is S$300 million, although two recent valuations were done at S$270 million and S$284 million. These valuations work out to S$1.41 million and S$1.49 million per room respectively. Talk in the market is that both valuations assume a...

Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel will embark on a 16-month restoration programme starting January 2017, the hotel announced on Tuesday. SINGAPORE’S iconic Raffles Hotel will embark on a 16-month restoration programme starting January 2017, the hotel announced on Tuesday. Structurally, the heritage property will remain unchanged; it was declared a national monument in 1987. As such, the...