Tommy Hilfiger group sells Raleigh Hotel in South Beach to Michael Shvo and partners for $103M

83-key Art Deco hotel sold for $1.24M a room, likely a record in Miami area

Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Shvo and the Raleigh Hotel
Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Shvo and the Raleigh Hotel

Tommy Hilfiger and Dogus Group sold the Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach to a partnership led by New York developer Michael Shvo for $103 million.

The deal breaks down to about $1.24 million a key, one of the most expensive hotel sales on a per-room basis in Miami-Dade County.

Shvo, Bilgili Group and Deutsche Finance Group acquired the 83-room Art Deco hotel at 1775 Collins Avenue, according to a release.

The Raleigh had been closed since Hurricane Irma hit South Florida in September 2017. Hilfiger said in a statement that despite working to restore and reopen the hotel, “this was an offer we just could not refuse.” The Wall Street Journal first reported the sale.

Hilfiger’s group paid $67.5 million for the property in 2014 and planned to turn the hotel, built in the 1940s, into a private club. But the property was rumored to be for sale following Hurricane Irma a year-and-a-half ago.

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Shvo, chairman and founder of SHVO, said his group is committed to “bringing about its next renaissance,” calling the hotel “a nostalgic icon and a symbol of twenty-first century style and luxury.”

His business partner in the deal, Serdar Bilgili, is the owner of the Istanbul-based real estate private equity firm BLG Capital.

The Raleigh acquisition marks the first for Shvo in South Florida. In New York, his projects include the Getty building in West Chelsea. The same partnership that acquired the Raleigh also paid $135 million for the office portion of 685 Fifth Avenue in 2018.

In Miami, the deal could mark a new per-room record for hotel trades. Billionaire Michael Dell was set to buy 1 Hotel South Beach for about $500 million, or $1.2 million per key, but that deal has not yet closed.