Liv's Collection
Turning beautiful houses in sun-drenched places into a hospitality brand that grows.
Every memorable place begins with a simple question.
Some places stay with us forever — not because of their luxury, but because they change how we feel.
No News.
Those four words invite us to leave behind stress, schedules and noise. Great hospitality creates a transition before it provides a room.
If one day our guests remember only one feeling after staying with us — what should that feeling be?
Not a holiday home. A brand you can repeat.
Imagine building a collection of distinctive houses, each offering the intimacy of a private home with the economics of a boutique hotel. Together, they form a hospitality brand that can grow one exceptional property at a time.
Now imagine ten of them, under one name, one look, one booking system. That's the plan: build a collection, not a house. Each house makes money three ways at once.
It earns
Rooms, breakfasts, events, experiences — a premium stay guests pay well for.
It's lean
A light team and simple operations keep a big slice of every euro as profit.
It grows in value
You buy character properties, renovate them, and the real estate appreciates over time.
Same room price. Half the headache.
A hotel is heavy: expensive to build, big staff, complicated to run, and it looks like everyone else's. A boutique house charges similar rates with a fraction of the weight.
🏨 The hotel
- Huge cost to build
- Large permanent staff
- Complex daily operations
- Hard to feel special or different
🏡 The boutique house
- Smaller property investment
- One local all-rounder + outsourced help
- Light, simple to run
- Authentic, memorable, one-of-a-kind
17 places studied. 5 shine brightest.
Every destination was scored on one thing above all: a long season — 8 months of tourists or more. Then cost to enter, and how easy it is to own. These five won.
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Bali
Agadir / Essaouira
Langkawi / Penang
Trancoso
Marrakech
How every place stacks up
This bar shows how many times your invested money could multiply over 10 years (called "MOIC"). Higher is better. The green five are the winners; the last two are ruled out.
Within Europe, the Canary Islands (4.43×) are the strongest — full EU ownership, 12-month season. Dubai (2.15×) and the Balearics (2.03×) were ruled out: the loan repayments eat almost all the profit.
One house, one year
Take a typical 7-room house. Here's roughly how the money moves — before we even count the property growing in value.
(rooms + extras)
(~47% of what comes in)
in the top destinations
Start small. Prove it. Then repeat.
You don't build ten houses on day one. You prove the idea with one, then grow with confidence.
One pilot house in Morocco
Marrakech or Agadir/Essaouira: you can own it outright, taxes are low, and it's simple to run. This first house proves the model and launches the brand.
Homework on Bali & Malaysia
The best returns of all — but they need more legal preparation before buying. Study them while the pilot runs.
The Canary Islands as the European base
Full EU ownership and a 12-month season make it the safest place to expand, with Madeira and Malta as follow-ons.
Four boxes to tick before any purchase
A secured tourist licence, a clean land title, a validated tax setup, and confirmed local numbers. Discipline here matters more than the destination itself.
The full study
Everything on this page comes from these two documents. Open them any time for the complete detail.
The files open in a new tab from their current Dropbox locations.
"Liv — this is the whole 40-page study, boiled down to what matters. The point isn't to own a pretty house somewhere warm. It's to build something that lasts, that repeats, and that grows in value while you sleep — a real hospitality brand. That's the kind of thing worth building a life around. I'd love to hear which of these places speaks to you."