A boutique hotel in Liverpool city centre has gone up for sale for £1.5m after the owner embarked on a restructure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Owners of The Urbanista Hotel on Bold Street say they are looking to re-evaluate their operational and development criteria due to the pandemic - which has had a "severe effect" on the sector.
Opened by owner David Colbourn in December 2019, the "luxury" hotel is made up of 17 different rooms for up to 58 guests and has a top floor events space, terrace and staffing areas.
The pandemic meant that Urbanista was forced to closed back in March 2020, before reopening in July - with the addition of a top floor Covid-secure events space complete with a private bar and plush booth seating.
A spokeswoman for the hotel said: "Urbanista Hotel is home to double and quad rooms as well as larger suites including the Wild Corner and Secret Garden suites that are both favourites with guests and come complete with private outdoor courtyards that are packed with flower walls, murals by local artist Jazz Stan as well as a swinging egg chair and bar area.
"Since the addition of the hotel’s top floor events space, Urbanista has received an overwhelmingly positive response with many enquiring to have private gatherings and parties, some of which were able to go ahead under the guidelines allowing 30 people to mix, before this soon changed to 15, followed by Liverpool’s tighter Tier 3 restrictions forbidding any gatherings other than weddings and funerals and of course, the third national lockdown."
The hotel has been placed on the market with Christie & Co. Offers are welcome by January 29.
