German Investor Bets Big On Portland Hotel Market
March 9, 2018

German Investor Bets Big
On Portland Hotel Market

The giant German investor Union Investment acquired the 294-room The Porter hotel in Portland, a recently completed property developed and operated by Widewaters Hotels. The hotel, which is part of the Curio Collection by Hilton brand, traded for about $147.8M.

The Porter is at SW Second Avenue and SW Columbia Street in Downtown Portland, and represents the investor's sixth hotel acquisition in the United States, its second on the West Coast — and its first in Portland.  The German real estate investment manager acquired…

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