Tollefsen purchase the hotel – Dagens Næringsliv

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Eiendomsinvestoren Ivar Tollefsen has purchased the Carlton Hotel Guldsmeden in park road in Oslo.

Published: 06.01.2017 — 20:48 Updated: 07.01.2017 — 12:42

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After a complete renovation of the then 60-year-old Carlton hotel in park road in Oslo, opened the Danish Guldsmeden chain’s first hotel in Norway in the autumn of 2010.

the Carlton Hotel Guldsmeden has 53 rooms and is described as an ecological boutique hotel.

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last fall, the hotel was put up for sale. The seller was park road 78 Property as, a company established in June of last year with Kristin Havig-Gjelseth (involved in the Grape and Olivia) as a board member and contact person. The asking price was 85 million.

After a round of betting were the hotel grounds after the DN understand sold just before christmas for over 90 million, or about 1.7 million per room. With a fixed rental income of four million, which only konsumprisjusteres, it means that the buyer’s shares probably not much over four per cent.

Ivar Tollefsen, the owner of the eiendomskonsernet Fredensborg.

the Buyer is billionaire Ivar Tollefsen (55) through his wholly-owned eiendomskonsern Fredensborg. Fredensborg is Norway’s largest private rental company of residential homes with over 4,000 apartments for rental, primarily in the Oslo area. The group informs that it owns a total 24.600 rental apartments in Norway, Sweden and Denmark with a combined market value of 40 billion.

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the charter contract with the Danish Guldsmeden chain goes out in December 2022.

the press officer in Fredensborg, Arne Hurlen, to confirm purchase and type in an email that the hotel has a nice location and the rooms and public spaces of high quality.

– A property we bought with joy, he writes.

– do you Have plans to convert the hotel to housing?

– If the tenant in the future leave the premises and we convert to residential, we experience that this will be economically attractive for us. But we have neither the ability or desire to terminate the tenancy. On the contrary, the driver to tenant a charming and good business, which we are delighted to have in our property today and in the future, enter Hurlen who do not want to comment on the price.

We agree with the seller to keep the purchase price confidential, he writes.