Samty Holdings, one of Japan's leading accommodation developers and hotel operators, today announced the final closing of its first hotel-focused private real estate fund. The fund has secured capital commitments from a number of domestic investors.
The closing of the fund marks an important milestone in Samty's strategic transformation into a fully integrated real estate investment and asset management platform and comes after privatization of the company by Hillhouse Investment Management in January 2025, with Daiwa Securities Group continuing as a shareholder, together with Rava Partners, the real estate investment arm of Hillhouse.
The fund's high-quality asset portfolio consists of 10 hotels with a total of 1,530 rooms located in major cities in western Japan, including Tokyo, with high occupancy rates of 85 percent or more, stable cash flow, and strong profitability in an environment of sustained growth in both inbound and domestic demand coupled with constrained
