Quest Serviced Apartments to target business travellers in QLD with five new properties

Quest Serviced Apartments will target the growing number of extended-stay business travellers in Queensland, with five new properties across the state to open in the next 12 months.

Quest plans to build more than 1,300 apartments in Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, Woolloongabba and Upper Mount Gravatt for business travellers – boosting their room supply by more than 90%.

The announcement comes as Quest opened their newest property at Breakfast Creek (pictured below).

“A general shortage of quality accommodation for business travellers has prompted us to fast-track our plans to open more properties in the next 12 months, with further expansion plans in the pipeline,” says chairman of Quest Serviced Apartments Paul Constantinou.

“Queensland’s four pillar economy is going from strength to strength and we’re starting to see some really encouraging results from the investments we are making in agriculture, tourism, resources and construction,” says Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.

Property Observer reported on Quest’s announcement in February to build ten new apartment buildings in New South Wales by 2014.

These are in addition to new properties opening in outer Melbourne, regional Victoria and the Adelaide CBD.

Quest currently has 21 properties in NSW, providing accommodation to approximately 120,000 extended stay business travellers.

On completion of these projects, Quest aims to have a total of 2,365 rooms in NSW hosting around 200,000 travellers annually.

Quest also recently opened 86 serviced apartments in the redeveloped 10-storey Neapean Highway Complex in Frankston. 

Quest currently has over 150 properties across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.