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Queens Moat Houses Queens Moat Houses is looking to sell the Oakley Court hotel in Windsor for more than £50m. 02-Oct-2006 Queens Moat Houses has sold nine UK hotels to Jefferson Hotels for about £100m, and eight of them will be leased to Rezidor SAS and rebranded as Park Inns. 10-Oct-2005 Queens Moat Houses is to transfer up to 13 of its UK hotels to InterContinental Hotels Group's Holiday Inn franchise, and three could be converted to the upmarket Crowne Plaza brand. 15-Aug-2005 Queens Moat Houses is looking to sell nine of its UK hotels for about £100m, and Christie & Co has been appointed to handle the sale. 28-Apr-2005 Queens Moat Houses, the chain of hotels in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, is expected to be acquired by the Whitehall property fund of Goldman Sachs for about £544m. 03-Aug-2004 Queens Moat Houses is expected to sell its UK hotels for about £350m over the next few weeks, while its 26 Dutch hotels and 24 German hotels will also be sold off. 04-May-2004 Queens Moat Houses has sold the Edinburgh Capital Moat House to Portland Hotels for £5.3m. 11-Feb-2004 Bank of Scotland has sold four hotels operated by Queens Moat Houses to Pedersen Group for more than £40m. 13-Jan-2004 Queens Moat Houses is said to have appointed Morgan Stanley to seek buyers for its hotel operations, which could be worth up to £700m. 01-Jan-2004 Queens Moat Houses is to sell the 263-room Moat House hotel in Liverpool to a subsidiary of Grosvenor for £20m, as it is subject to a compulsory purchase order for the redevelopment of the Paradise Street area. 17-Nov-2003 Queens Moat Houses is looking to sell the Kensington Moat House and Sloane Square Moat House hotels in London for about £28m. 11-Jul-2003 Queens Moat Houses is considering plans for a franchise deal with Hilton Group, which would involve converting most of its 42 UK hotels to the Hilton and Scandic brands. 11-Nov-2002 Queens Moat Houses is to close the 173-room Grand Hotel in Birmingham with the loss of up to 100 jobs. 02-May-2002 Queens Moat Houses is considering plans to rebrand its 24 German hotels, and talks are taking place with Six Continents and a number of other operators. 08-Mar-2002 Queens Moat Houses has raised £37m in a refinancing deal, which will be used to develop marketing alliances and to add 1,200 rooms. 08-Sep-2000 Queens Moat Houses has sold the Oxford Moat House to Paramount, the securitised hotel vehicle backed by Alchemy Partners, for £11m. 14-Jul-2000 Queens Moat Houses is looking to sell off its Oxford hotel and one in Germany, in order to raise £20m to reduce debt. 17-Mar-2000 Queens Moat Houses is looking to sell the five-star Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh, which is said to be worth about £40m. 01-Dec-1999 Queens Moat Houses has sold eight hotels in Germany in order to raise £30m for debt-reduction purposes, and is now left with 26 German hotels. 09-Nov-1999 Queens Moat Houses is to add in-house health clubs to four of its 31 UK hotels this year. 12-Mar-1999 Queens Moat Houses is selling 11 hotels in France and Belgium to Westmont Hospitality of the US for £42m, as part of a strategy to focus on Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. 10-Sep-1998 Queens Moat Houses is looking to sell its 11 hotels in France and Belgium in order to focus on the UK, the Netherlands and Germany. 27-Mar-1998 Queens Moat Houses is planning to sell off some its 36 German hotels in order to reduce borrowings. 21-Mar-1997 Queens Moat Houses is to sell 25 hotels to a management buy-in for £91.5m in order to reduce debt. 10-Feb-1997 Queens Moat Houses plans to sell 25 of its hotels for over £100m in order to reduce debt. 20-Apr-1996 Queens Moat Houses is to sell Eastwell Manor Hotel for £1.7m. 08-Nov-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007