Leo has acquired The Cooden Beach Hotel, which has 41 rooms and suites and sits on a private beach in Bexhill-on-Sea on the Sussex coast.
The 1920s building includes a beachfront restaurant and large sea view terrace and will remain open for a predicted busy 2021 staycation season, with a planned full renovation.
The hotel will then reopen as The Relais Cooden Beach in spring 2022, with the ambition of turning Cooden Beach into a sought-after destination for Londoners, “akin to the Hamptons on Long Island for New Yorkers”.