Hotel Investment Advisory
From Acquisition to Value Exit
Hotels | Hospitality Projects | Serviced Apartments | Resorts | Boutique Hotels | Extended Stay | Luxury Villas | Lifestyle Hotels | Micro-Hotels Aparthotels | Spa & Wellness Properties | Conference & MICE Hotels | Airport Hotels | Mixed-Use Hospitality Assets
Hotels | Hospitality Projects | Serviced Apartments | Resorts | Boutique Hotels | Extended Stay | Luxury Villas | Lifestyle Hotels | Micro-Hotels Aparthotels | Spa & Wellness Properties | Conference & MICE Hotels | Airport Hotels | Mixed-Use Hospitality Assets
We are Titans RE
We are a hotel investment advisory firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. Together with our spin-off Group Getaways, we connect capital with investable assets and projects across real estate, hospitality and tourism.
Services for Hotel Investors
Titans RE advises private equity firms, institutionals, family offices and private hotel investors with core, value-add and opportunistic profiles.
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Discover hidden gems. Our flagship service originates hotel transaction and project investment opportunities in more than 15 countries from private owners, family offices, lawyers, architects and others.
What you get:
Exclusive Access: We source deals from private and trusted networks, unavailable on the public market. Operators may secure top-tier hotels with Joint Ventures.
Valuation Assessment: Titans RE deals always come either with a pre-analysis based on your profile or an indicative valuation, to give you the big picture.
Transaction Workshop: Book a tailored workshop to discuss investment cases for ongoing transactions or 2nd opinion on deals. This service is complimentary for 🪙Priority Club Members.
Pipeline Outsourcing. For large clients we offer to manage their deal flow and initial deal screening based on their criteria, investment models and desired output format/reporting.
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See the full potential. For opportunities sourced independently from Titans RE, we offer to provide an independent 2nd opinion, an indicative valuation and optionally to initiate and represent you in the transaction.
What you get:
Investment Case: Market, performance, and financial indicators are carefully analyzed to provide a decision-ready view for the deal you are considering. We also offer workshops to brainstorm your planned acquisition and suitable concepts.
Hotel Valuation: Buyers, lawyers, family offices or investment advisors can get a low-cost valuation assessment to get the approximative market value of a hospitality business.
Buyer Representation: You may share target properties for acquisition, consider a listing in our hotel transaction news (below) or find otherwise an opportunity. We can initiate and represent you in the transaction process to maintain an advantageous deal positioning.
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Penetrate new markets. From first-time hospitality entrepreneurs to established groups, we support your expansion or project with structured, on-the-ground market entry expertise.
What you get:
Market Entry Study for New Regions: Our assessment will help you to enter new countries. Save time and travel costs.
Market Entry Study for New Segments: We help entrepreneurs turn their hospitality ideas into viable concepts, supporting them from early project planning through to opening their doors.
Swiss Company: We assist you in transitioning to a tax-efficient corporate structure registered in Switzerland, regardless of the location of your hotel or hospitality business.
Pre-Opening Support: We serve as your extended local team during the pre-opening phase, coordinating suppliers and on-site activities, navigating regulatory requirements, building teams and much more.
Services for Owners
For owners of assets and projects, Titans RE provides strategic advisory services and serves as trusted gateway to global capital partners.
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Build new revenue streams. We help hotels, B&Bs, and hospitality concepts improve performance through targeted concepts, optimized space use, and demand-driven strategies.
What you get:
Gap Analysis: Our experts screen your physical and digital spaces for inefficiencies and suggest concepts and solutions to improve sales, guest experience, finance and process efficiency.
Space Monetization: We run projects to fix identified gaps in your hotel, underutilized spaces and opportunities to raise revenues.
Hospitality Marketing: Targeted positioning, content, and distribution strategies to increase visibility, attract the right guests, and improve booking performance.
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Ensure highest possible sale value. Owners and operators are prepared to position their asset for a profitable exit and walk away with a solid valuation and a roadmap of pre-exit measures.
What you get:
Hotel Valuation: We analyze your business, property and your sub-market and produce a valuation to support pricing, investor negotiations and communications with other financial partners.
Exit Preparation: We help you to optimize operations, financials, and branding so your property achieves maximum appeal and ROI at sale.
Investor-Ready Package: On- or Off-Market, we support you with professional teasers, exposés (with or without photography/drone videos), process documents, viewings, data rooms, due diligence support, contract drafts for a safe and convenient transaction experience. You can choose to sell yourself or through Titans RE or a third-party.
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Capital injection. Projects that pass our rigid sanity check and market testing, will be connected with investors specialized in funding renovations, upgrades, and growth.
What you get:
Capex & Growth Funding: Access investors and lenders who provide targeted capital for refurbishments, operational upgrades, repositioning, or amenity expansion.
Business Plan Support: We structure or refine your business plan to meet specific capital partner expectations, ensuring clarity, credibility, and alignment with their policies and strategies.
Investor Relations: We will pitch credible projects to our financial network, support or lead negotiations and structure potential financing deals.
Deal
Origination
To receive transaction opportunities, please fill out the short form below or use our Profiler to receive a regular deal flow.
OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS
You may choose from presented on-market listings of third-parties or ask for other opportunities. As your Buy-side Advisor we can analyze or provide 2nd opinions on any opportunity and initiate a transaction.
Selected On-Market Listings for Hotel Buyers
Contact us to analyze a suitable asset and to initiate an acquisition inquiry on your behalf.
Projects
to invest
We are actively seeking financing partners for the projects presented. Contact us for more projects or to submit a project for investment (NDA).
Nairobi, Kenya
Expansion Financing of Two Conference Hotels for Governmental Needs
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Two existing hotels (belonging to different owners) with expansion mandate via project management structure
Current capacity: 33 and 35 rooms; planned expansion to ~100 and ~80 rooms
Addition of conference facilities, upgraded catering, and guest amenities
Demonstrated demand with existing operational performance and occupancy levels
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Total funding sought: USD ~17.4M across both assets
Individual asset valuations: ~USD 6.5M and ~USD 3.5M
Use of proceeds: capacity expansion, facility upgrades, partial refinancing
Revenue drivers: increased room inventory, conferencing, F&B and events capacity
Riviera Maya, Mexico
Capex Financing of a New Boutique Hotel for Families with Special Needs
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Acquisition and repositioning of a 36-key boutique resort into a purpose-built inclusive hospitality model
Integration of adaptive rooms, therapy services, and dedicated care support infrastructure
Low-density “controlled environment” concept enabling sensory-optimized guest experience
Fully operational asset with immediate repositioning and expansion into multi-site platform
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Total project cost: ~USD 43.5M incl. USD 8.1M equity raise
Target IRR: ~20–25%; MOIC ~2.0x–2.5x+ (5-year hold)
EBITDA margin: ~28–33%; occupancy target 75–82%
Preferred return: 8–10% with structured waterfall and governance rights
Asset-backed model capturing underserved ~$21B accessible travel segment
Titans Team
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Maurizio Redaelli is a Senior Hospitality Consultant at Titans RE with over 20 years of hospitality leadership experience across leading luxury, lifestyle, and boutique hotel assets throughout the UK, France, Belgium and Europe.
Having held General Manager and Cluster General Manager roles for prestigious properties including NH Hotel Group, Starhotels Collezione and independent ownership ventures, Maurizio has successfully led hotel repositioning, pre-openings, commercial transformations, and operational turnarounds.
His expertise in hospitality EBITDA optimization, revenue growth, asset repositioning, and luxury guest experience consistently drives sustainable performance across hospitality portfolios.
Maurizio holds a Diploma in Advanced Hotel Management Studies from the Geneva Hotel Management School, as well as executive credentials from the General Manager Program at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.
Maurizio Redaelli
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Nicholas is a Senior Transaction Advisor and Member of the Advisory Board of Titans RE. He brings over 25 years of transaction experience across real estate, hospitality, and private equity, with involvement in USD 7B+ of completed M&A and Private Equity transactions.
He has structured and executed deals on both the buy and sell side, built and managed a USD 700M private equity platform primarily deploying across European and US real estate, and led hospitality transaction activities around the Mediterranean.
His expertise covers deal structuring, capital solutions, JV frameworks, and investor engagement across European markets. Previously, he held senior roles in institutional banking and international PE firms.
Nicholas holds an MBA and executive credentials from LBS, Wharton, Bocconi and INSEAD.
Nicholas Bislanis
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Ruhiyya Jamilli is serving as Operations Assistant at Titans RE, supporting business development, project coordination, and operational workflows across the company’s business units.
With over 20 years of experience in operations and administration across multinational environments, she contributes to pipeline management, research and analysis, client and partner communications, and internal process coordination. Her background spans facilities management, contract handling, quality assurance, vendor coordination, and cross-functional team support, bringing structured, service-minded expertise to ensure efficient execution and seamless day-to-day operations across Titans RE’s growing portfolio.
Ruhiyya holds a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and a Level 5 Management certification from the Chartered Management Institute in the UK.
Ruhiyya Jamilli
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Baris Öztürk is Partner at Titans RE. He brings over 15 years of experience across banking, consulting, and hotel real estate, supporting the company’s strategic growth, quality standards and technology-enabled expansion.
Before joining Titans RE, Baris held senior roles at Credit Suisse, working across private banking risk management, credit risk, regulatory implementation and transformation. As Credit Officer, he was involved in structured private banking transactions and successfully led front-to-back change and regulatory implementation projects
In 2015, he co-founded and consulted Business Titans, specializing in creating and upgrading digital, retail and hospitality businesses.
Baris holds a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance.
Baris Ozturk
Dorukhan Aras
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Dorukhan Aras is the Founding Partner of Titans RE. In 2022, he acquired and repositioned the former company, Business Titans, transforming it into a globally operating hotel investment advisory firm.
He led the development of the company’s architecture, advisory services, and early-stage brokerage portfolio, which reached in 2 years a combined valuation of more than EUR 1.1B. Beyond Titans RE, he has over 10 years of experience in business and regulatory consulting at top-tier institutions in Geneva, Zurich and New York, such as HSBC, Société Générale CIB, EY, CAPCO, EAES and the UN. He has been part of 60+ transactions.
Dorukhan holds degrees with distinction in International Security (Intelligence), from the University of Leicester and the Geneva School of Diplomacy. He is also certified in Hotel Real Estate Investment & Asset Management by Cornell. In addition, he has published geostrategic analyses for the International Relations & Security Network (ETH Zurich ISN) and foreign policy publications. One of his analyses was published in the NATO digital library and presented in 2012 at the ISA conference in San Diego.
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Laman Huseynova is serving as Executive Assistant at Titans RE, supporting executive management across business operations, client coordination, and strategic communications.
With more than five years of experience in international business environments, she assists in the coordination of hospitality and real estate projects, investor relations, and administrative processes, ensuring efficient execution and professional stakeholder management.
Laman Huseynova
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Titans RE AG
Löwenstrasse 25
CH-8001 Zurich
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