Featuring innovative design, sustainable practices and community initiatives, Qbic Hotel London opened in October 2013 in a disused office block.

Qbic’s unique concept, paired with low out-lay costs, a strong business model and competitive return on investment, has fast tracked our projected growth plans beyond expectations.

Qbic is curious, imaginative and friendly, and we believe there are lots of people just like us seeking a hotel with personality in their favourite city. The patented Qbi integrated-bed and bathroom unit allows rapid and low cost transformation of spaces into high quality hotel accommodation, making our concept ideally suited for building conversions. We’re currently scaling up and seeking new sites to add to our European portfolio.

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Product

How to build a hotel room in 6 hours

With two award winning hotels in London and Amsterdam, Qbic is a disruptive European urban 3-star plus hotel concept with ambitious and rapid growth plans.

The Qbic build ethos is based around the utilisation of existing building facilities to accommodate hotel developments, and the Qbi is an industry leading, sustainably built, adaptive re-use concept.

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A Tiny Environmental Footprint,

Not A Great Big Stomp!

Our sites are built and operated to the highest Eco-friendly credentials. Innovative green technology was adopted during the London build that enabled us to increase thermal insulation, reduce heat leakage, and recycle 93% of the stripped out building products back into the building process.

We have achieved the highest possible BREEAM status for our London site and numerous operational accolades. This doesn’t just make us feel all fuzzy, it contributes to our lean operating style and low cost of delivery.

The jewel in our crown is without a doubt the Qbi – a patented aluminium pod that contains everything needed to go from shell to fully functioning hotel room in 6 hours.

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Requirements

Qbic is Expanding

As a wholly owned affiliate of global real estate and hospitality experts Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., we are now looking to acquire hotels for rebranding, purchase buildings suitable for conversion and procure hotel development sites in strong or emerging city locations in the UK and Europe.

We are primarily focused on London where we would like to add further sites to those open and in the pipeline. We are also looking for sites across the rest of Europe, all within the next 3-5 years.

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Qbic is Expanding

Our Property Requirements

Green credentials, modern pragmatism, quirky style and sociability are the values that sit at the heart of Qbic, and set us apart from the rest.

These values, combined with our industry leading hotel build times are why we are backed by international giants Cerberus. Together, we are now looking to acquire suitable buildings throughout the UK and Europe.

QBIC PROPERTY REQUIREMENTS

With significant financial backing we are looking to purchase:

  • Existing hotels suitable for rebranding
  • Buildings in alternative use (office, student, PRS, hostel, etc) suitable for conversion
  • Sites with planning permission for hotel (C1) or an alternative use with a firm prospect for change of use to hotel

QBIC SIZE REQUIREMENTS

We have developed a successful 16 sqM room format, with this in mind we would like to view details of:

  • Existing hotels with existing bedroom count of, or with potential to reconfigure to provide, at least 100 bedrooms
  • Existing buildings, in alternative use, with a minimum GIA of 3500 SqM – ideally around 6000 sqM
  • Sites consented, or with the firm prospect of being consented for a minimum GIA of 3500 sqM – ideally around 6000 sqM

QBIC LOCATION REQUIREMENTS

Our focus over the next 3-5 years is on strong or emerging city locations in the UK and Europe, including but not limited to:

  • London – locations that are within Zone 1 and 2, close to public transport infrastructure, in either mature central locations, to include Kings Cross, Paddington, Victoria and Waterloo, or emerging areas with compelling growth prospects such as Bethnal Green, Hackney, Bermondsey, Southwark, Brixton, Shepherds Bush and others.
  • UK – primary targets include Edinburgh, Manchester and other key UK regional cities
  • Europe – primary targets include Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Milan, Paris and Rome but consideration will be given to other cities that can demonstrate strong leisure and commercial demand drivers

QBIC TENURE REQUIREMENTS:

We have a strong preference for freehold, long leasehold or equivalent, but we will give consideration to lease and associated rental in certain circumstances.

If you have a suitable building or site, or would just like to understand more about our requirement, in the first instance please contact:

Rekha Toora​ – Chief Investment Officer
rekha.toora@qbichotels.com
+44 (0) 7796 174 856

Will Sandbach – Property Acquisitions
will.sandbach@qbichotels.com
+44 (0) 7594 088 725

Paul MacSherry – Property Acquisitions
paul.macsherry@qbichotels.com
+44 (0) 7710 372 994

Charlie Gong – Property Acquisitions
charlie.gong@qbichotels.com
+44 (0) 7872 614 987

Mike Arnoult​ – Property Acquisitions
mike.arnoult@qbichotels.com
+44 (0) 7483 245 296

Contact

If you have a suitable building or site, or would just like to understand more about our requirement, in the first instance please complete the form below and a member of our property team will get back to you:

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