Quest Liverpool City Centre — Photo by Quest Apartment Hotels
Quest Liverpool City Centre — Photo by Quest Apartment Hotels
Quest Liverpool City Centre — Photo by Quest Apartment Hotels

Quest Apartment Hotels, Australasia"s largest and fastest growing apartment hotel operator, has marked the start of its ambitious UK expansion plans, announcing it has signed its first site in Liverpool"s city centre with a £10m investment.

Established by entrepreneur Paul Constantinou nearly 30 years ago in Melbourne, the 160 strong Quest Apartment Hotels portfolio has made its name by offering a "home away from home" to extended stay business travellers in key cities, regional towns and suburban locations across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. With 27 properties currently in the pipeline and 12 under construction in its home markets – the brand plans to apply its successful model to open ten properties across the country in the next five years.

Quest Liverpool City Centre will open in 2019 and is located on Church Street along one of the city"s biggest retail strips and adjacent to the landmark Liverpool ONE complex. The building itself is a 1980s commercial office building with retail on the ground and first floors. Quest will convert the existing vacant office space on levels two, three and four and construct additional levels five and six, creating 100 serviced apartments, reception, conference room, gym and back-of-house facilities.

The announcement comes on the back of new figures from the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers (ASAP) and hotel global benchmarking company STR which shows health and expansion in the sector this year.

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