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Delano to Seoul. Accor and Ennismore will open Maison Delano
Seoul in 2026, overlooking the tree canopy of Gangnam Park (rendering above). The property will
boast 81 guestrooms, 52 branded residences as well as a members’ club. In a
reinterpretation of the traditional Korean Pavilion, the architects have
created a “park façade” concept, cocooning the entire building façade and
sunken courtyard in trees and greenery. F&B and wellness programming will
play a big role within the hotel.
H Group sells Accor shares. Chinese hotel giant H World
Group, formerly known as Huazhu, has sold its remaining 3.7% stake in
Accor and said it will redeploy those funds to further develop its core
business. Accor last month sold its reciprocal stake in H World Group. The two
companies established a strategic partnership with cross shareholding in 2016.
H World Group still has the master franchise rights for Mercure, Ibis and
Ibis Styles, as well as co-development rights for Grand Mercure and Novotel in
the Greater China region. By the end of 2022, H World
Group operated 468 hotels in China under this agreement, with
143 properties in the pipeline scheduled to open over the next few years.
Paris transactions. Greater Paris transaction activity
reached €1.9 billion during 2022, according to a report from Cushman &
Wakefield. This was 300% above 2021 but also 7% above 2019 levels. Several
major transactions in prime locations with price per room exceeding €1 million
drove the volume. It said yields gradually rose with a steady increase in the
second half of 2022, especially in the last quarter. In 2022, the hotel supply
increased by 75 properties, adding approximately 10,000 rooms, most of which
opened in the first half of the year. This included primarily midscale and
upper midscale hotels in central Paris and the periphery, but also highly
expected high-end assets such as the TOO Hotel and the SO/Paris Hotel.
CMBS delinquencies jump. According to Trepp’s Delinquency
Report, commercial mortgage-back securities (CMBS) delinquencies move sharply
higher in February 2023, up 18 basis points to 3.12%, the second largest
increase since June 2020. That follows the January reading which was the
second lowest since the onset of COVID-19. The all-time high on this basis was
10.34% registered in July 2012. The COVID-19 high was 10.32% in June 2020.
NewcrestImage, HCP close. A joint venture between
Dallas-based NewcrestImage and Hospitality Capital Partners (HCP) has completed
the acquisition of 11 hotels in seven states with 1,551 rooms. The properties
are 10 Courtyard and one Residence Inn hotels in the states of Georgia,
Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. HCP and
its principals have owned almost 50 hotels in the western United States,
notably The Saguaro Scottsdale, located in that city’s historic Old Town area.
Other projects include 25 golf courses through their associated company, Parks
Legacy Project. NewcrestImage now owns more than 70 hotels across the U.S. with
almost 8,000 rooms.
Bortz buys shares. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust CEO Jon Bortz has
purchased 21,000 shares of his company via open market purchases, according to
a R.W. Baird report. Total consideration was just over $300,000 at an average
price of $14.46/share.