Market 2025
July 2025
Image credit: Tony McArdle, showing Hill Dickinson Stadium, at summer solstice 2025
HOTEL DEVELOPMENT SITE, L3 0AP
In a new dawn, NJBHLP and Eddisons are delighted to launch to the market, the freehold site for an exciting consented 80 room hotel development and conversion opportunity, located directly opposite Everton FC’s new Hill Dickinson Stadium.
The opening of the new Everton football ground, within the former Bramley-Moore dock, together with nearby developments such as the Titanic Hotel Liverpool, create opportunity for an alternative hotel district, to the north of the city centre, that will appeal both to existing operators and to new entrants to the Liverpool hotel market.
Full details in PDF brochure at the ‘For Sale’ section of this website.
Nick Barber
07796 278720
nick@njbhlp.co.uk
January 2025
Image: Hotel website gallery
FRANCHISING ADVICE FOR THE INDEPENDENT HOTEL
Having spent over three years post Covid, helping Choice Hotels EMEA (one of the world’s largest hotel chains), with UK franchising, on a retained exclusive basis (now concluded), Nick Barber is well placed for 2025, to work with independent hoteliers who are thinking of adding a franchise and ‘flag’, and for which he can now advise across the market. The photo shows the Clarion Charlecote Pheasant Hotel near Stratford-upon-Avon, which joined Choice in 2023, before launching with the Clarion branding in 2024.
There are pros and cons, costs and benefits in franchising. Without doubt, the no.1 topic of discussion, in Nick’s franchise conversations with hotel owners the length and breadth of the UK, was OTAs – online travel agents - often considered essential for generating bookings for the independent hotel, but expensive. So, a little-known takeaway, for this website franchising piece at the start of 2025, is that the franchise companies can generally offer their franchisees significantly more attractive OTA commission rates, than can be negotiated independently. Which in turn can lead to interesting conversations, comparing the franchise fees with the savings that can potentially be achieved. Add in some ‘key money’, as an effective way of financing the refurbishment of, say, a bedroom wing (which in turn should increase average room rates), and the numbers can look intriguing.
Nick Barber
07796 278720
nick@njbhlp.co.uk