The post Billionaire Kwek Leng Beng’s CDL Expands In London With $370 Million Holiday Inn Deal appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Holiday Inn London – Kensington High Street. Courtesy of City Developments City Developments Ltd. (CDL)—controlled by billionaire Kwek Leng Beng and his family—bought Holiday Inn London for £280 million ($370 million), expanding its hospitality footprint in the U.K. capital Copthorne Hotel Holdings, a wholly-owned unit of CDL completed the acquisition of the 706-room Holiday Inn London in Kensington High Street at £396,600 per room, the Singapore-based developer said in a statement. The hotel sits on a 6,356 square meter freehold property, offering long-term development potential, it said. With the purchase, City Developments said it owns two of the largest freehold sites in London’s most affluent districts of Kensington and Chelsea. The acquisition also boosts the group’s portfolio to over 3,000 rooms in Central London, where it owns six hospitality assets including the 833-room Copthorne Tara Hotel and the 611-key Millennium Gloucester Hotel. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to secure an ultra-prime freehold site in Central London,” Kwek Leng Beng, executive chairman of CDL, said the statement. “Freehold sites in this location are exceptionally scarce, and it is even rarer to find one directly adjacent to our Copthorne Tara hotel.” The Holiday Inn hotel is located in a tranquil enclave that’s a two-minute walk to the bustling Kensington High Street, known for its upmarket boutiques, department stores, restaurants and cafes. The hotel had an occupancy rate of over 97% in the nine months to September 2025. Total revenue in the last 12 months topped £39 million, and the hotel is expected to generate a running yield of over 6%, City Developments said. The deal comes as City Developments seeks to bolster its finances by selling some of its assets. It has raised S$1.9 billion from divestments this year, strengthening its capital position and optimizing its portfolio as it accelerates redeployment… The post Billionaire Kwek Leng Beng’s CDL Expands In London With $370 Million Holiday Inn Deal appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Holiday Inn London – Kensington High Street. Courtesy of City Developments City Developments Ltd. (CDL)—controlled by billionaire Kwek Leng Beng and his family—bought Holiday Inn London for £280 million ($370 million), expanding its hospitality footprint in the U.K. capital Copthorne Hotel Holdings, a wholly-owned unit of CDL completed the acquisition of the 706-room Holiday Inn London in Kensington High Street at £396,600 per room, the Singapore-based developer said in a statement. The hotel sits on a 6,356 square meter freehold property, offering long-term development potential, it said. With the purchase, City Developments said it owns two of the largest freehold sites in London’s most affluent districts of Kensington and Chelsea. The acquisition also boosts the group’s portfolio to over 3,000 rooms in Central London, where it owns six hospitality assets including the 833-room Copthorne Tara Hotel and the 611-key Millennium Gloucester Hotel. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to secure an ultra-prime freehold site in Central London,” Kwek Leng Beng, executive chairman of CDL, said the statement. “Freehold sites in this location are exceptionally scarce, and it is even rarer to find one directly adjacent to our Copthorne Tara hotel.” The Holiday Inn hotel is located in a tranquil enclave that’s a two-minute walk to the bustling Kensington High Street, known for its upmarket boutiques, department stores, restaurants and cafes. The hotel had an occupancy rate of over 97% in the nine months to September 2025. Total revenue in the last 12 months topped £39 million, and the hotel is expected to generate a running yield of over 6%, City Developments said. The deal comes as City Developments seeks to bolster its finances by selling some of its assets. It has raised S$1.9 billion from divestments this year, strengthening its capital position and optimizing its portfolio as it accelerates redeployment…

                                                                               Powell said the Federal Open Market Committee is weighing interest rates on a meeting-by-meeting basis, with no long-term consensus.                     US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the 19 members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) remain divided on additional interest rate cuts in 2025.At Wednesday’s press conference after the Fed’s 25-basis-point rate cut, Powell said the central bank is trying to balance its dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability in an unusual environment where the labor market is weakening even as inflation remains elevated. Powell said:Powell said that the “median” FOMC projection from the Federal Reserve’s Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), the Fed’s quarterly outlook for the US economy that informs interest rate decisions, projected interest rates at 3.6% at the end of 2025, 3.4% by the end of 2026, and 3.1% at the end of 2027.Read more