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Featured property Focus | | Budget Nonsuch hotels BayHotels in June 2007 to introduce 25 new hotels over the next five years under itsHampton by Hilton brand - this will go some way to creating a healthy presence withinthis sector. Expect further announcements shortly...Other budget and limited service operators currently undergoing aggressive acquisitionactivities are the likes of The Real Hotel Company Plc for their purplehotels brand, LouvreHotels for Campanile and InterContinental Hotels Group for their Express by HolidayInn brand. All of the operators are actively acquiring sites within the UK predominantlytargeting city centre and high quality main arterial route locations.If one listens to the hotel operators, the next two to three years would appear to lookgood for the majority of the branded limited service and budget operators with aggressiveexpansion plans already in full swing. Topland, the Sol Zakay-run company, has embarkedon creating a £1bn portfolio of budget hotels in the UK using £200m of its own equity tobuy development sites, which it will let to operators such as Travelodge and Premier Inn.Topland announced this project in order to capitalise on a fast-growing sector. The budgethotel market is one of the few markets that has not ground to a shuddering halt in thewake of the credit crunch.Other hotel operators have outlined their intentions to enter the exciting budget hotelsector. Rezidor have recently announced that they will be entering the budget hotel sectorby launching a new “colourful” budget hotel brand. In addition to the likes of EasyHotel,Hilton and other operators such as Purple Hotels, the two heavyweights of the budgetsector Travelodge and Premier Inn may find that their expansion plans could face somestiff competition for sites.Capital growthMost existing and emerging operators are focusing significant energies on London. Thefollowing table highlights the main areas within London that Visit London anticipate willexperience the most budget hotel growth over the next 5 years.But where is all the land?With so many operators fighting overthe same sites the result will be acontinuation of increasing land andsite values. Subsequently, operators arecurrently assessing new ways of makingdevelopment schemes more financiallyviable for the developer and these involveinnovative build techniques, such asthe 120 bedroom Travelodge hotel atUxbridge which is being made from cargocontainers, or being a component of alarger mixed-use building.Given that every budget and limitedservice operator is announcing grandexpansion plans, the budget hotel sectorwould appear to be in a solid and stablecondition. Shame that cannot be saidabout the rest of the UK economy.A final thought is that if the five leadingbranded budget hotel operators were tohit their respective national expansiontargets, then we would need to find theequivalent floor space for new rooms ofcirca 20,128,640 sq ft or 462 acres of land.The question is where is all of the landgoing to come from?London AreaCentral LondonEast LondonWest LondonNorth LondonSouth LondonSource: Visit LondonLocal LocationsEuston, King’s Cross, London Bridge, Elephant & Castle, Paddington,Waterloo, Victoria, Vauxhall/Nine Elms/Battersea, Holborn, Hollowayand the South Bank.Bishopsgate/South Shoreditch, Whitechapel/Aldgate, Isle of Dogs,Stratford, Lower Lea Valley, Royal Docks, Barking Reach, LondonRiverside, Deptford Creek, Greenwich Peninsula, Belvedere/Erith,Thamesmead, Ilford, Woolwich, Kidbrooke.Wembley, White City, Park Royal, Heathrow/Feltham/Bedfont/Hounslow, Hayes/W Drayton/Southall/Stockley, Willesden Junction.Upper Lea Valley, Tottenham Hale, Cricklewood/Brent Cross, Mill HillEast, Colindale, Haringey, Heartlands/Wood Green.Croydon, South Wimbledon/Colliers Wood.<strong>HLL</strong> <strong>Humberts</strong> <strong>Leisure</strong> is retained by anumber of leading hotel operators anddevelopers and if you have any sites thatmay be suitable then please contact TimSmith for a confidential discussion.ContactTim Smith BSc(Hons) MRICS, Londone: tim.smith@humberts-leisure.comt: +44 (0)20 7629 6700Alex Campbell BA(Hons) MA, Londone: alex.campbell@humberts-leisure.comt: +44 (0)20 7629 6700Luke Cutler BSc(Hons) MRICS, Londone: luke.cutler@humberts-leisure.comt: +44 (0)20 7629 6700www.humberts-leisure.com<strong>HLL</strong> <strong>Humberts</strong> <strong>Leisure</strong> 25

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