Hoby Hotels Limited (03438812): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2012-06-11
- Administrators
- Gary Steven Pettit, Alan Redvers Price
- Administrators' firm
- PBC Business Recovery & Insolvency
- Formerly
- Houseseeker Limited
- Incorporated
- 1997-09-24
- Location
- Northampton
- Industry
- 7487
Why it went into administration
- Weather / natural events
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Property / lease costs
From the administrators' statement
Hoby Hotels began trading in 1998 and up until 2009 It operated three hotels it acquired the Lord Leycester Hotel in Warwick In 1998 and the Lincolnshire Oak in Sleaford in 2000 The Woodhall Spa Hotel in Woodhall Spa, Lincoinshire was acquired by Jeremy Walsh's Self Invested Personal Pension ("SIPP’) in 2005 and the Company operated under a lease since December 2005
In 2007, the Directors decided to place all three hotels on the market for sale and in January 2008, offers had been accepted on both the Lord Leycester Hotel and the Lincolnshire Oak however these both fell through
The hotels were remarketed and the Lord Leycester was eventually sold in September 2009 for £1 35m
Administrators' statement of proposals (2013-06-10) · Companies House register