Reading Time: 2 minutes US: Airbnb is focusing its attention on strengthening its long-term rental business, as the company eyes up new revenue streams and growth opportunities to expand beyond its core short-term rental offering.
Reading Time: 4 minutes UK: The 2024 Urban Living Festival offered a comprehensive overview of the current trends and challenges shaping the hospitality and real estate sectors, with several key themes emerging throughout the many discussions and presentations held across the event’s six stages.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Customer experience technology platform Alliants and property management software-as-a-service [SaaS] solution [PMS] Hospiria have partnered to launch a “groundbreaking” flexible rental platform called 1 LiVNG, which is focused on transforming the residential real estate market.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Vertus Edit, the first aparthotel project from Vertus, the BTR arm of Canary Wharf Group, is scheduled to open in February 2025.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Bristol City Council has granted planning permission for a mixed-use BTR, aparthotel and hotel scheme in Temple Quarter.
Reading Time: 18 minutes Worldwide: The IHM editorial team have created a list of 25 influential leaders across travel, hospitality and real estate who they believe have a big 12 months ahead of them.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Zakee Ahmed, CEO of flexible living platform Livinc, talks to ULN editor George Sell about creating a seamless customer journey for relocation residents; why coliving is the next big thing for the company and the wider real estate sector; why he is optimistic about the development landscape, and much more.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Global: A new report from PMS provider Lavanda has revealed that 85 per cent of BTR, PBSA and coliving portfolios are planning to increase the number of shorter-term leases they offer.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: The OpRe conference was held in London last week and attracted a wide range of professionals from asset classes across the hospitality and living sectors.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Real estate platform AENDRE Group, which will develop and create lifestyle aparthotels, has secured financial backing from private equity firm JuneX Capital Partners and co-investors New End.
