Company

We don't just talk about hotels.
We run them.

Clavis International develops, markets and operates resorts and holiday properties — from Hamburg since 2009. We have delivered projects worldwide. Two properties on the Baltic coast we still run ourselves. Others we advise operationally. Others again we developed, advised, marketed and handed over across many years.

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Who we are

Specialist for resorts & residences

As an independent company in the property industry, we specialise in the development, marketing and operation of premium holiday properties at home and abroad — a concept that is hard to find in this completeness anywhere else in Germany.

We carry out resort projects in partnership with investors, family offices, funds, property developers and hotel operators. What sets us apart from pure consultants is that we subsequently take over the running of the business — and share in the profits.

Market knowledge

Market knowledge that comes from projects

37 resort projects worldwide — with international hotel groups as well as with small boutique houses — have taught us what a location carries, which brand suits which size, and what an operation actually earns at the end of the month. We have followed the international market for branded residences since 2009 and apply it to the two-hour radius around Germany's major cities.

01 Location

We develop where we also operate: houses in Ostholstein and Mecklenburg, reachable on Friday evening and commutable on Monday morning — what the market calls the „two-hour home“

02 Resort locations

Our sites sit where European growth happens, while schemes in the metropolises fail on land and planning hurdles

03 Market gap

Northern Europe is virtually untouched and Germany appears in no country ranking — we fill that gap with our own projects, not with studies

04 Pricing

We derive premiums locally, from comparable properties and the performance of the operation; international averages serve only as a reference

05 Brand choice

Hotel brand, design or lifestyle brand, or an own brand — decided by project size. A brand has to pay for itself over the term, otherwise the owners foot the bill

06 Digitalisation

Continuous exchange with property and booking portals keeps us current on sales, visibility and AI-supported tools

Market figures for reference: Savills, Branded Residences — Europe (January 2026) and Global (November 2025); Graham Associates, 6th edition.

Attitude

What you can measure us by

We stay in the property

What we develop, we usually run ourselves. That is why we only recommend what holds up at the end of the month.

Planning permission before marketing

We only go public once the development plan and feasibility are in place. The largest risk is then already removed.

Independent, commission-free advice

As owner and operator we have no interest in intermediary margins — only in the result of the project.

For private owners too

We do not only work with funds and family offices. Anyone buying a single holiday property gets the same review: location, operating concept, running costs and how the unit can be sold on later.

Commission-free for the buyer

Every property in our portfolio is commission-free for buyers. Our fee comes from the seller — which keeps the advice free of intermediary margins.

Reachable after the purchase

Our work does not end at the notary: handover, letting and settlement run through the same contacts — and in the houses we operate ourselves, that is a given.

Since 2009

We still run two properties ourselves — others we built up over many years. Time and again this is where it shows: the concept carries.

Expertise

Four disciplines, one approach

Development, sales and operations interlock in our work — from the first site review to the running property. Without the losses that occur when advice, marketing and operations are handed between separate firms.