Agent CBRE Hotels is handling the sale on the instructions of Paul McCann of Grant Thornton, who was appointed receiver by Bank of Scotland (Ireland). The Lloyds-owned bank is using loans specialist Certus to run down its banking operation in the Republic.
Mr McNamara has been one of the biggest casualties of the property crash with overall debts of €1.5 billion.
The Burlington is the second largest hotel in Ireland after Citywest in Co Dublin, with 501 bedrooms and extensive conference and banqueting facilities on a 3.8-acre site on the city’s south side.
The hotel is understood to have made profits of between €5 million and €6 million last year when the room occupancy rate was running at 70%-75%. A sizeable proportion of the profits come from the extensive banqueting hall, which can accommodate 1,500 guests.
Paul Collins, of CBRE Hotels, said yesterday there had been a remarkable recovery in the Dublin hotel market, and city hotels were now among the best-performing in Europe.
Read more on the sale in today’s Irish Times.
