Highlights
Asset Classes
Hospitality
Our core competence is hotel.
Union Investment is one of Europe's leading investment managers for the asset class hospitality. We hold 90 hotel properties in our actively managed portfolio. We are also pursuing a clear growth path outside Europe. Expertise from the hotel world and the real estate industry form the basis of our success.
Bn. EUR
Hotel property assets (including mixed-use with hotel usage)
Percent
Proportion of real estate assets
rooms
In hotel properties
selected
National markets
Hotel brands
Worldwide
Hotel properties
globally
- Status of the data: 31/12/2024
Be it Hamburg, Paris or New York City: hotel markets function differently and are constantly changing. In addition, guest behaviour is becoming more and more diverse and is subject to continuous change.
As a result, new hotel concepts are emerging and even established hotel products have to reinvent themselves again and again. Our interdisciplinary hotel team actively shapes these changes.
Our interdisciplinary hospitality team
Works hand in hand and combines detailed knowledge of the hotel world with real estate and financial expertise
We are not only familiar with the market and the real estate, but also with the hotel business side of special real estate. From budget to upscale hotels, we manage properties in almost all categories.
Partners at eye level
The hotel properties in Union Investment's portfolio generally have long-term leases. At the same time, it is important to keep the quality of a hotel high over a long period of time and to impress guests with a property's amenities. To this end, the Asset Management Hospitality team maintains a close exchange with tenants, operators and franchisors.
Together we are successful
Sustainable property quality and the further development of hotel products are very important to us. For example, we set up renovation programmes geared towards sustainability or have our properties certified. After all, environmental protection and energy efficiency also play an important role in the hotel industry. We also follow current trends and developments - regardless of whether they are hybrid contract forms, triangular structures, new booking systems, furnishing trends or brand concepts.
We do not only look at the hotel shortly before the expiry of a lease - but develop an individual concept for the strategic repositioning of the investment together with our partners at an early stage. Because with
hotel, the concept, location and operator must be perfectly coordinated in order to be successful in the long term.
Successful repositioning: The Cloud One
- Union Investment's existing property was extensively modernised
- A new tenant has been found with the Motel One Group
- For Motel One it was the entry into the US market
Reliable transaction partner
Our Investment Management Hospitality team is responsible for the purchase and sale of hotel properties. We focus on global hotel properties. Since we have been investing in hotel real estate for over 40 years, we have built up a special expertise. We are leaders in the German hotel investment market and are among the international pioneers in structuring complex transactions.
Expert for complex contract structures
No two hotel investments are alike. Every hotel property transaction has to take account of different contracting parties and country-specific characteristics. Union Investment masters the entire range of contracts.
Hotel chains around the world are striving to minimise their operating risks. We reflect this trend in innovative solutions such as hybrid and sandwich leases - often in conjunction with franchise agreements. With our solution orientation, we bridge the gap between Anglo-Saxon management and European lease contracts.
Investment profile hospitality
- Investment volume
- Individual properties from EUR 30 million
- Portfolios from EUR 60 million
- Property criteria
- 2 - 5 stars segment
- at least 140 rooms
- Business and City Hotels, Extended Stay and Holiday Hotels
- Markets I Locations
- A-locations in major cities, secondary cities with excellent micro-locations
- established holiday destinations: North Sea and Baltic Sea, Alps and Alpine foothills, Spain, Portugal
Highlights hotel properties
London House, Chicago
- The number of properties shown here generally does not include properties under construction.
News hospitality real estate
Other asset classes
We pursue a broad regional and sectoral diversification in our portfolios. Our portfolio and investment spectrum therefore includes not only hotels but also office, retail, logistics and residential uses.