Edinburgh\u2019s growing popularity as a tourist destination has seen it take nearly 75% of the investment made in Scottish hotels during the first three quarters of 2025, according to new research from Knight Frank.<\/p>\n
The independent commercial property consultancy\u2019s analysis of Real Capital Analytics (RCA) data found that of the \u00a3305 million of deals involving hotels in Scotland between January and September \u00a3227 million was in Edinburgh \u2013 74.4% of the national total.<\/p>\n
Among the hotel transactions in Edinburgh during 2025 has been the sale of the W hotel, which was acquired by Schroders Capital \u2013 one of the largest sales of recent years. The Bruntsfield Hotel was also purchased by Dubai-based investor Dutco Group earlier in the year.<\/p>\n
Hotels were the top-performing property sector in the Scottish capital, ahead of offices (\u00a3212 million), retail (\u00a3121 million), and industrials (\u00a328 million). It is only the second time this has happened in the first nine months of any year since the pandemic, adding to the \u00a3246 million during the same period of 2024.<\/p>\n
Official figures show that Edinburgh attracted more than five million international and domestic visitors last year. As a result, hotel occupancy rates have reportedly been at exceptional levels.<\/p>\n
Euan Kelly, capital markets partner at Knight Frank Edinburgh, said: \u201cEdinburgh continues to grow in popularity as a destination for both international and domestic visitors. The city is a year-round tourist destination \u2013 while the festivals are an obvious attraction in the summer, golf, the Six Nations, along with a growing number of conferences, concerts, and other events are all adding to what the city has to offer. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith that, the demand for hotel accommodation has been very high and supply remains relatively constrained \u2013 although, the conversion of several city centre buildings to hotel and aparthotel use will add to the city\u2019s stock over time. Those market dynamics mean investor demand for hotels in Edinburgh should remain strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sale of the W hotel earlier this year has been a significant boost to the statistics, but with more stock likely to become available as it comes on stream and the city\u2019s visitor numbers stronger than ever, we are likely to see more deals in the remainder of 2025 and into next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh\u2019s growing popularity as a tourist destination has seen it take nearly 75% of the investment made in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,183545,4884,23195,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-580275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-takes-three-quarters-of-investment-in-scottish-hotels","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-pub-news-hospitality-news","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115576052465024625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}