The Pacifica Boutique Hotel, which will have 35 rooms over floors one to six, is being marketed by Warren Hutt and Peter Hamilton of CBRE for developers Hengyi Pacific. 

Warren Hutt says that with tourist numbers into Auckland rising constantly, and very few new hotels being created in Auckland’s CBD, this is an exceptional opportunity for hotel investors and owner operators to secure an outstanding offering both in terms of its quality and its prime downtown location. 

“The Pacifica Boutique Hotel in the 57-storey Pacifica tower will redefine the quality of central city hotels in Auckland, bringing elegance and style right into the heart of the CBD.

“This will be a 5-star minimum hotel – a top-end boutique offering. Hotel investors and owner operators have an unparalleled opportunity to acquire a brand new hotel a stone’s throw from Auckland’s waterfront and Britomart. They will also have the ability to brand the hotel to suit the high-end market.”

With generous room sizes ranging from 30 sqm to 60 sqm, there may also be an opportunity to add additional rooms by way of a management agreement over apartments within the tower. 

Guests will have access and use of the tower’s high quality amenities including gym, swimming pool, sauna, spa, steam room and community terrace - all on level 7.

Peter Hamilton says that there are many opportunities for the new owner to adapt and manage a number of elements within the offering.

“Firstly, they can fit the hotel out to their own preferences. Secondly, on the ground floor will be the dedicated hotel lobby and an opportunity for food and beverage offering facing Commerce Street, which can also be acquired as part of the sale. 

“Further, they have the opportunity to take on the overall concierge management of the tower, including the 1,188sq m two-level super-premium penthouse on level 53 and 54, which is now being marketed internationally.

“We see The Pacifica Boutique Hotel being of real interest to local and international hotel owner operators, as well as the owners and operators of high-end lodges. This would give them a prime footprint in Auckland’s CBD to ca ter for guests arriving into New Zealand, before taking them on elsewhere into the country.

“Moreover, the opportunity exists for the successful purchaser to set up management agreements with individual apartment investors – so the opportunity to grow the number of keys within the building is definitely there.”

Hutt adds that construction of the tower is well underway and is due to be complete in late 2020, in time for the 2021 America’s Cup.

Warren Hutt says that the sale will enable the new owner to capitalise on Auckland’s booming hotel market, which is being powered by rapidly rising international visitor numbers into New Zealand and limited new hotel supply.

“Auckland’s hotel market is consistently outperforming, both in terms of room rates and occupancy, due to a lack of new supply over a number of years resulting in a booming market for hotels. 

“This is partly due to consistently rising international visitor numbers to New Zealand. We’ve seen annual increases almost every year since the 1990s. There were approximately 3.82 million visitor arrivals to New Zealand in the year to March 2018, up 7.8% from the previous year, and international visitor arrivals have increased on average by 8.5% p.a. since 2014.”

“The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment forecasts international visitor arrivals to increase to 5.1m by 2024. 

“Therefore, the buyer of The Pacifica Boutique Hotel will acquire a hotel in arguably the best apartment complex New Zealand will see, in a spectacular CBD location, and buying into a market that is performing exceptionally well.”

The hotel is for sale via an Expressions of Interest process that will close on Monday 18 June 2018 at 4pm.

To discuss the sale in further detail, phone or email Warren Hutt and Peter Hamilton of CBRE via the below contact details.

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