Not exact matches
Those funds are,
of course, among NYC real estate's
largest investors and have poured money into such high - profile sites as 787 Seventh Avenue, Hudson Yards and the condo -
hotel formerly called Trump SoHo.
What attracted attention was not just the price paid by the Chinese
investor ($ 1.95 billion was the highest price paid for an existing
hotel in the U.S.), but the identity
of the purchaser, China's eighth -
largest insurance conglomerate, owned by the grandson - in - law
of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
On the upside, Whitbread PLC shares WTB, -0.73 % jumped 7.2 % after Elliott Management said in a statement over the weekend that it has amassed a stake
of more than 6 % in Britain's biggest
hotel and coffee - shop operator and believes it's currently the
largest investor in the company, whose businesses include the Premier Inn chain.
Meanwhile, Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Worldwide received an unsolicited takeover proposal from a group
of investors led by Anbang Insurance Group Co., potentially upending a deal with Marriott International that would create the world's
largest hotel operator.
Fladgate LLP has advised Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners and other
investors on the disposal
of Hotel Saint - Barth Isle de France to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's
largest luxury products group.
By and
large, HNW
investors and family offices have a better grasp
of local markets — most notably non-gateway markets — while foreign
investors tend to favor U.S. assets that are in their comfort zone, namely multifamily properties and
hotels in top - tier cities, according to Mulcahy.
Case in point is a well known real estate firm with a justified reputation as excellent
investors purchasing one
of the
largest hotel chains in the world at a very aggressive price in 2007 — the very top
of the last cycle.