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Before buying a hotel

Before you buy a hotel: the operator's view

Agents know the market, architects the building, law firms the law. We add the operator's view: whether a property keeps its guests, whether the kitchen pays its way, whether staff can be found and whether it earns beyond the summer.

Michael Gehring and Ljubo Vuljaj in Porto Montenegro
Porto Montenegro, October 2026
The operational assessment

An existing property or a new-build project, reviewed the way an operator would

Location and demand, category and fabric, the figures of recent years and earnings in three scenarios, from summer operation to year-round operation. At the end you know what the property delivers today, what it could deliver and what that requires.

What we review

Nine areas, one picture of the property

Location

access, surroundings, what the place offers outside the summer

Market

demand in the region across the year, origin of guests

Competition

comparable properties, their prices in high and low season

Guests

reviews, recurring praise and criticism

Distribution

online presence, booking channels, dependence on intermediaries

Category

registered category against the actual standard

Figures

revenue, occupancy, rates and costs of the last three years

Organisation

staff in and outside the season, management

Potential

offers for spring and autumn, required investment

The market from the hotel's point of view

What investors should know about Montenegro

Four findings from official statistics and public sources that matter for every hotel investment.

92.6 %of overnight stays are on the coast, Budva alone accounts for 32.3 %MONSTAT, analysis 2025
4.58nights is the stay of a guest from Germany, close to the hotel figure of 3.45MONSTAT, Release 27-2/2026
499categorised hotels, 37 of them with five starsTop Business Montenegro via montenegrobusiness.eu, as of 2024
1 to 5stars under a national system. Montenegro is not part of the Hotelstars UnionPravilnik 36/18; Hotelstars Union member list, 2026

From this follows a conclusion that underpins our work: Montenegro's large source markets, Serbia and Russia, stay 7.46 and 11.82 nights and are therefore structurally guests of private rentals. The hotel guest, and with him the guest from the German-speaking countries, is the market that few have pursued so far. More figures in market insights

Clear boundaries

What we do and whom we leave the rest to

Investors trust advisers who know their role.

  • We advise on operations: market, concept, figures, running the business.
  • Legal, tax and construction advice we leave to licensed local law firms and offices.
  • Official valuations are prepared by licensed valuers.
  • We never promise a rise in price, not even verbally.
  • Whoever commissions us learns of every commission in advance.
Frequently asked

What you should know

Do you also handle legal or tax matters?

We advise on operations. Legal, tax and construction advice we leave to licensed local law firms and offices, and we work with them where your project requires it.

Do you work remotely or on site?

Both. We do the ongoing work remotely, by video and with shared documents. We come on site where it counts: for the walk-through, the training, the bank meeting.

In which language do you work?

In Montenegrin, German and English. We deliver reports in the language your owners, your bank or your funding body needs.

Confidential enquiry

Tell us about your project

Whether purchase, sale, new build or repositioning: describe location, size and timeframe in a few sentences. We will get back to you personally, and everything stays between us.

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