Guy Nixon, CEO of Native runs one of the largest operators of aparthotels in the UK with current and planned sites in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Glasgow comprising 1,500 units operating or in the development pipeline. Here Guy speaks to CoStar News about his decade-long journey to bring the asset class to the attention of travellers and investors alike and how he turned an abandoned cotton warehouse in Manchester sold by Goldman Sachs for £20m in 2016 into an £80m luxury aparthotel investment for Deka Immobilien three years later.