Board

Date

Property / Properties

Total bedrooms

Total sale price Purchaser

Vendor

Crerar Hotels/LaSalle Investment Management

August

Fishers Hotel, Pitlochry

130

£3m

Castle Hotel Group

August

Grand Jersey

123

Undisclosed West Register (Hotels No 2)

Delancey

CIP Property (AIPT) Limited — sale and leaseback Circus Invest – Premier Inn retains management contract

August

Malmaison hotel, Aberdeen

80

£16.1m

MWB Group Holdings

£20.1m for mixed development

Clients of LaSalle Investment Management Matrix Property Management Pre-pack administration (BDO)

August

Premier Inn, Manchester City Centre

228

August August

Swallow Bower Hotel, Manchester

88 88

£1.85m £3.25m

Blue Training

Scarisbrick Hotel, Southport

Britannia Hotels

Blackmore Fund — to be rebranded as Holiday Inn Express managed by Chardon Management Ltd

September Ramada, Crewe

64

Undisclosed

Ramacourt Ltd

September Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor

96

£9.45m £35.7m

Private Investor Topland Group

RBS RBS

September Hilton Glasgow City

319

Administrators of Cube Hotels ( Zolfo Cooper) Administrators of Cube Hotels ( Zolfo Cooper) Administrators of Ramada Jarvis ( Grant Thornton) Administrators of Free Trade Hall Hotels (Grant Thornton) Administrators of von Essen Hotels ( Ernst & Young) Administrators of von Essen Hotels ( Ernst & Young) von Essen Hotels Limited (in administration: Ernst & Young) Administrators of von Essen Hotels ( Ernst & Young) Administrators of von Essen Hotels ( Ernst & Young) Administrators of von Essen Hotels ( Ernst & Young)

September Best Western Salford Hall, Evesham

36

£2.25m

Skylane Limited

October

Best Western West Grange Hotel, Newbury 62

£3m

Hawk Investments

October

Ramada Bristol City

201

Undisclosed Focus Hotels

October

Free Trade Hall Hotel Manchester

263

£37.5m

Jasminder Singh (Edwardian Group)

October

The Samling, Cumbria

11

Undisclosed Private buyer

October

Bishopstrow House, Wiltshire

32

Undisclosed Longleat Enterprises

November Thorn Island, Pembrokeshire

n/a

Undisclosed Kent Mushrooms Limited

2 hotels (36 rooms)

Greenway Hotel & Spa, Cheltenham; The Mount Somerset

November

Undisclosed Eden Hotel Collection

November Homewood Park Hotel & Spa, Bath

21

Undisclosed Longleat Enterprises

December

Callow Hall, Derbyshire

16

Undisclosed Private buyer

Increase in the number of hotel deals completed in 2011 compared with the previous year

9.6%

52%

Of the hotels sold by Christie + Co in 2011 were distressed

21