Europe woke up to a surprise this morning.

The UK Conservative Party failed to gain a bigger majority in the UK General Election meaning its position and authority is automatically weakened in its plans to negotiate a hard Brexit (where the UK gives up full access to the single market and takes control of its borders).

This election was basically a public referendum on how the UK conducts its negotiations with the EU and now a softer Brexit deal is more likely.

A soft Brexit is preferred by many ‘Remainers’ in the UK (remember that the referendum to leave the EU resulted in a very narrow margin of 52% leave to 48% remain).

It increases the likelihood that the UK will continue to access the single market without tariffs and will remove many doubts over London’s financial hub status.

The status of EU nationals moving across boarders will probably remain unchanged, although this has never been a factor preventing buyers outside the EU buying and owning property in Austria.

We have many buyers from countries outside the EU e.g. Australia, South Africa, Norway and the US.

Economically, the UK and Europe are looking at a period of greater economic stability compared to the disruption of a hard Brexit.  The Pound will benefit and so will those buying Austrian property in Sterling.

Meanwhile, Austrian property’s reputation as a safe-haven investment has further been enhanced as it continues to record growth of 4.6% in Q1 2017.  It outperformed France (2.9%) and Switzerland (2.4%), according to the Knight Frank Global House Price Index.

Buyers of apartments from Kristall Spaces now have the option to engage the services of our sister company – All Suite Resorts  http://all-suite.com/ * who can manage the rental, marketing and servicing of your apartment.

This means you will have a fully integrated and seamless service from the moment you make the decision to purchase one of our apartments.

In early 2017, the management of Kristall Spaces (the real estate sales arm) and Kristall Group (on-the-ground holding company for construction and operations) made the decision to set up the new operator business, All Suite Resorts, to ensure an even higher standard of management and rental operation for our apartments.

We are already in the privileged position of advising apartment buyers as the developer and the sales agent and this has helped our teams to understand the intricacies of the customer journey more clearly.

Buyers prefer to deal direct with the developer and the in-house sales and marketing team –  as both internal teams work together to provide vital customer insight and feedback, enabling them to deliver a more flexible and individually tailored buying experience.

Through the team of multilingual professional advisors who handhold our EU and non-EU buyers through the research, buying and ownership process, we know that extending our proposition into management and rental provides even greater comfort and peace of mind to buyers and benefits all parties.

Investors feel more assured knowing that we (developer, agent and professional advisors) are involved with the resort and owners for 10 years after the handover of the property.

All Suite Resorts – our reputation is your peace of mind  

The Kristall Group has expanded its development arm very quickly over the last three years. Nobody builds and sells more ski apartments in Austria than us.

We are the industry leader with 8 ski resort apartment projects in planning or construction and 1,500 beds coming online in the next two years.

To meet the rise in customer demand for professionally managed rental apartments (currently growing at 9.4% per annum source STATISK AT), we aim to expand this to 5,000 beds in the next 5 to 7 years.

The management of All Suite Resorts is headed by an experienced and trained hotel specialist and a member of the largest hotelier family in the Ötztal.

In addition, All Suite Resorts has recruited a consultant from Michaela & Partner, http://www.michaeler-partner.com, the leading advisor to the hospitality industry in Austria and engaged one of Austria’s leading Marketing and Public Relations companies, P8 in Innsbruck, to create our new website, develop brand recognition and manage our PR in the German-speaking world. 

All Suite Resorts has also retained a Luxury Travel and Property PR & Marketing Agency in London to oversee non German-speaking promotional activity.

We are committed to building the most successful operator of modern luxury apartments in the Austrian Alps, providing an unrivalled level of service to rental customers whilst delivering peace of mind for our partner-owners.

*This is an interim website http://all-suite.com/ until  a fully integrated web / hotel booking system goes lives (currently in development).