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Lenders pick the winners in the UK hotel market
The UK hotel debt market is open, liquid, and aggressively priced — but only for the right borrower, in the right place, with the right story. Lenders are responding to a capital market that looks less like an orderly system and more like a beauty contest — with a curious line-up of sponsor–asset propositions hoping to win their attention: the opportunistic fund backing a value-play with capital ready to deploy; the large portfolio trades that still turn heads despite complexity; the prime city and gateway hotels fronted by long-term owner-operators with strong covenants; and, on the periphery, a few strategic buyers stitching together single-asset bolt-ons. In this landscape, winners are not defined by whether an asset is “performing” in the conventional sense, but by whether it fits the much narrower credit models’ lenders are now running. The right profile can draw multiple competitive term sheets; the wrong one — even with similar EBITDA — can find it tough to get past lending committees.
Smart exposure: optimising hotel market combinations for returns, stability and balance
In today’s fragmented and fast-evolving hospitality landscape, selecting the right markets for hotel investment and operation is both a strategic imperative and a complex challenge. Unlike other asset classes, the hotel sector lacks a unified, transparent dataset for total returns — making it harder to assess performance, compare opportunities, or build diversified portfolios with confidence.
The shifting fundamentals of the UK hotel market
We take a deep dive into the shifting fundamentals of the UK hotel market in eight key charts. Learn what they mean for owners, operators, and investors alike.
Policy gaps, not short term rentals, fuel the real problem with overtourism
Overtourism is a failure of organisation which can be resolved with data and aligned strategies.
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29th September – 30th September 2025
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6th October – 8th October 2025
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