High above the fray, Jan Rattia strolls onto his 49th-floor terrace and checks the Ga. 400 traffic. He takes a glimpse of the Connector. Then he pauses to take in the skyline.
Afterward he can fix coffee in the morning kitchen and commute downstairs to the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel for a business meeting.
Such [...]

A real-estate deal in Denver goes into the history books. An anonymous buyer spent $10 million on the penthouse condo that will be built on top of the new Four Seasons Hotel at 14th and Arapahoe.
According to the Four Seasons that is the most expensive condo ever bought in the Denver area. [...]

THE Philippines posted a record 13,939 rooms last year, a 9.9-percent increase from the 12,683 recorded in year earlier, Trent M. Frankum, general manager of CB Richard Ellis Philippines, Inc. (CBRE) said.
But Frankum also said these additional hotel rooms are not enough to meet the growing demand for more rooms.
Citing the reports of the Philippine [...]

A planned condominium building in Yorkville will feature the city’s most expensive penthouse –a $16-million unit.
The creation of a 9,000- square-foot space atop the soonto- be built Four Seasons Hotel marks a coming of age for Toronto, co-designer Brian Gluckstein said in a recent interview.
The 55-storey tower at Bay Street and Yorkville Avenue will house [...]

Stockholders of Four Seasons Hotels Inc. have narrowly approved a proposal to take the luxury-hotel company private in a $3.8 billion (U.S.) deal involving a group that includes Microsoft’s Bill Gates, right.
The offer of $82 cash per limited voting share came from affiliates of Cascade Investment LLC, owned by Gates; Kingdom Hotels International, owned by [...]

Step through elevator doors and a marble foyer.
Floor-to-ceiling windows looming over downtown Seattle, the Space Needle and Elliott Bay.
It’s late afternoon. Then, a few minutes later, the skyline stands out in the dark of night.
And a few minutes after that, it’s daytime again.
Welcome to ESCALA, where the elevator, skyline and daylight are fake. But the [...]

Leaders from the Industry Real Estate Finance Advisory Council talked money, debating public versus private ownership, capital availability and trends in luxury building at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in January.
The public versus private discussion kicked off with Kathleen Taylor, president and c.o.o. of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, who spoke of the company’s November [...]

A US$3.37-billion deal announced Monday by billionaires Bill Gates and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal to purchase Four Seasons Hotels Inc. underscores a trend by well-heeled investors to acquire hotels and hotel companies worldwide.
The deals are driving up top purchase prices to more than US$1 million per room, while room rates have increased at roughly [...]

Adding to the glitter during Los Angeles’s awards season, culminating with the Academy Awards Feb. 25, is a host of renovated and new hotels vying for attention.
Most visible of all is the transformation of the cylindrical West Side icon familiar to everyone who has driven into L.A. on the San Diego Freeway for the past [...]

A local development firm is proposing a massive mix of hotel rooms, condominiums and commercial space for a downtown site on U.S. 41 that would rival the planned Sarasota’s Quay revival in financial size and scope.
Lion’s Gate Development Group Inc.’s plans call for as many as 300 upscale condos and 250 hotel rooms operated by [...]

Need a hotel room in India? Better book early and bring big bucks.
As the nation’s economy booms, foreigners and newly affluent Indians are flocking to the country’s big cities in unprecedented numbers — but are finding a shortage of places to stay.
“We had to scramble, we practically begged to get a room,” said Danny Leiber, [...]

Over 700 people have now registered to attend the Travel Distribution Summit and the vast array of FREE seminars which are being held alongside. Attendees are all senior-level travel professionals who control the distribution of billions of dollars worth of products. Meaning that this event is an unrivalled networking opportunity for travel executives from across [...]