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Landmark East Bay Claremont hotel is bought for more than $160 million
OAKLAND — The Claremont Club & Spa, an iconic hotel perched in the hills on the Oakland and Berkeley border, has been bought by a Bay Area real estate developer in a deal that tops $160 million. The hotel, part of the Fairmont chain, was bought for about $163.3 million, according to documents filed on…
Read MoreBlackstone nears $950M refi on Hotel del Coronado in San Diego
Blackstone nears $950M refi on Hotel del Coronado in San Diego Barclays leading CMBS deal on 1880s hotel Blackstone is nearing a $950 million deal to refinance its historic Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, The Real Deal has learned. Barclays is leading a commercial mortgage-backed securities package that will be backed solely by the 757-key hotel,…
Read MoreOhana Real Estate Investors buying Claremont Hotel Club &Spa
Several new liquor license applications related to the 276-room hotel, 41 Tunnel Road in Berkeley, indicate that Redwood City-based developer and investor Ohana Real Estate is in the process of acquiring the hotel. The luxury Fairmont Hotel chain and financier Richard Blum, the late husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, bought the hotel nearly a decade…
Read MoreOhana buys Claremont Hotel & Spa on the Berkeley-Oakland border
Redwood City investor pays unknown price for the 276-room property appraised at $183 million MAY 10, 2023, 11:38 AMBy TRD Staff Ohana Real Estate is buying the 108-year-old Claremont Hotel & Spa, which straddles Berkeley and Oakland. The Redwood City-based investor is acquiring the 276-room hotel at 41 Tunnel Road in Claremont, the San Francisco Business Times…
Read MoreBay Area hotel market wobbles in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland
Famed San Francisco hotel’s “non-performing” loan gets shopped to buyers By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: March 1, 2023 at 5:30 a.m. | UPDATED: March 1, 2023 at 1:28 p.m. Fresh signs have emerged that the Bay Area’s hotel market is wobbly — including efforts to scout for one or more investors willing to take over a faltering…
Read MoreReport: Buyer Demand for CA Hotels Remains Strong
HOSPITALITY: 510 Transactions Total $8.6B in 2022 BY: KAREN PEARLMANAPRIL 6, 2023 After a record year in 2021 with 510 hotels transacted, buyer demand for hotels in California remains strong. The Newport Beach-headquartered Atlas Hospitality Group reports in its 2022 Year-End California Hotel Sales Survey, that last year marked the second-highest number of individual hotel…
Read More2023 Development Update: Los Angeles
Revamped icons and bold newcomers help shape LA’s hospitality renaissance Words by: Will Speros • Photos by Sam Frost, Caylon Hackwith, and the Ingalls Although 2022 saw rising costs lead to a slowdown in Los Angeles hotel development, Atlas Hospitality Group reports, the city still closed the year with the third-biggest hotel construction pipeline in the…
Read MoreAppraisal Meant to Determine if Housing Commission Overpaid for Pandemic-Era Hotel Can’t Answer That Question
by Andrew Keatts | March 17, 2023 It didn’t answer the question. The San Diego Housing Commission released to the City Council Thursday the new appraisal of a Mission Valley hotel it bought to turn into housing for formerly homeless people. Nearly three years ago, the Housing Commission acquired the property for $67 million with the help of…
Read MoreOver-the-top bar and restaurant scene, high-rise hotels set to open in downtown L.A.
BY ROGER VINCENT STAFF WRITER Photography by ROBERT GAUTHIER APRIL 3, 2023 5 AM PT A high-rise with two hotels and an over-the-top restaurant and bar scene is set to open this month by Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles as travelers embrace the road again and the hospitality business climbs out of the crater it sunk into during the…
Read MoreCalifornia hotel sales finish 2022 better than expected
CHERYL SARFATYTHE NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNALMarch 21, 2023 After a strong first half of 2022, California hotel sales in the second half of the year were predicted to show a large drop because of increased interest rates and economic uncertainties. But according to a report by Atlas Hospitality Group, a Newport Beach-based commercial real estate firm…
Read MoreResidence Inn sells for $28M in East Bay
Transaction aligns with declining hotel room values San Francisco / September 16, 2022 08:30 AMBy Pawan Naidu | Research By Christian Bautista and Caysey Welton Hotels aren’t worth what they used to be, but they’re still worth a lot. A Residence Inn hotel in an East Bay suburb sold for $28.5 million, or $226,000 per room, according to public records. Despite the somewhat…
Read MoreBay Area hotel purchases slump amid inflation, price uncertainty
Hotel purchases show weakness during first half of 2022 By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: September 12, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | UPDATED: September 13, 2022 at 4:56 a.m. The Bay Area market for hotel purchases slumped during the first half of 2022 compared to the same period the year before amid inflation woes and fast-rising interest…
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