Le mie ricette per la real estate communityCommerz Real has acquired a virtually empty office building with a leasable area of approx. 10,000
square metres at Madrid
Airport through its Luxembourg-based company CR Fund Management S.à
r.l.. The building is to be converted into a two-star hotel under the
Zleep Hotels brand with 280 rooms through to 2021 for the “Commerz Real
European Hotel Fund” – as the first investment by the fund. The lessee
and operator will be a subsidiary of Steigenberger Hotels AG. The seller
is the Spanish company Inmobiliaria Valtiendos, S.L. It was agreed that
confidentiality be maintained on the purchase
price.
The real estate is located on Avenida de Aragón in Pegaso City business
park and was completed in 2011 to plans drawn up by the Estudio Lamela
architectural firm. Until a year ago it was leased in full to the Madrid
airport company AENA. In the framework of
the conversion work – which is expected to commence in 2020 already –
the Spanish project developer Ridasame will create a restaurant, a lobby
and a fitness area as well as the hotel rooms. In addition, some 220
underground car parking spaces are available.
It is intended to establish the hotel’s own shuttle service to the
nearby Madrid Barajas International Airport. The city centre can be
reached via the A2 motorway or using local public transport.
“Not
only is Madrid becoming ever more popular with tourists and business
travellers, it is also profiting from a relatively constant number of
guests across the whole year,”
explains Dirk Schuldes, Global Head of Hospitality at Commerz Real.
“Thus a consistently high capacity utilisation is guaranteed for the
hotel.” According to data from the hotel analysis company STR, the
number of overnight stays in the Spanish capital has
increased by an annual average of 4.7 per cent in recent years; the
figure for 2018 was around 19.7 million. Moreover, since 2013 the room
occupancy rate has increased by about 13.4 per cent, to 75.1 per cent in
2019.
In
cooperation with Deutsche Hospitality, the umbrella brand of
Steigenberger Hotels AG, the open-ended special AIF (alternative
investment
fund) “Commerz Real European Hotel Fund” is investing in European hotel
properties. Through the Luxembourg legal form of an SCA (Société en
commandite par actions / partnership limited by shares) it is intended
to acquire as many as eight risk-diversified
hotel properties for professional and semi-professional investors. The
desired fund volume is 250 million euros with an equity capital ratio of
around 40 per cent. Steigenberger Hotels AG is participating with a sum
of twelve million euros. The annual target
yield is at least 5.5 per cent (IRR).
Following the most recent purchase of two office properties in Barcelona
for the open-ended real estate fund hausInvest, Zleep Hotel Madrid
Airport is already the third property to be acquired by Commerz Real in
Spain in recent weeks.
Source : Company