Serendipia Hotels

05/30/2026

Most real estate investors read the same 10 books !

Most real estate investors read the same 10 books ! BUT only 3️⃣ actually change how you think. 👇

1. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki

Not a real estate manual. A mindset reset.

It doesn’t teach you how to invest. It teaches you why you must.

Read it first. Everything else makes more sense after.

2. The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, Gary Keller

This is where the mindset meets the model.

Concrete frameworks. Real numbers. No fluff.

The book that turns “I want to invest” into “here’s how I’ll do it.”

3. The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump

Controversial author. Irrelevant.

The deal logic inside this book is surgical.

If you want to understand leverage, negotiation, and positioning, it’s required reading.

Most people stop at book one.

The ones who read all three start seeing deals differently.

Which one have you already read?

05/29/2026

Proud to join the EightySeven community.

But more than the announcement…

That means…

That more than ever : The concept Serendipia Hotels is validated:

✔ $1M+ in revenue generated

✔ 1,000+ members served

✔ Backed by Techstars and Bosch

Now we're taking it further.

Our Brussels flagship is a €36M asset.

€30M already secured : debt, subsidies, strategic partners.

What excites me most isn't the numbers. It's the model.

We're not building a hotel !

We're building a lifestyle ecosystem :

boutique hotel, branded residences, coworking, wellness and performance club !

All under one roof, designed for the people who live between cities, between meetings, between ideas.

Hospitality real estate has been stuck for decades. Single-revenue assets. Low retention. No community.

We flip that. By combining hospitality, residential, membership, wellness, and events.

We create diversified, resilient income streams and a community that keeps coming back.

Underutilized iconic real estate.

Transformed into high-performing assets.

That's the Serendipia thesis.

Thrilled to build it alongside the EightySeven (ex-PropTech Lab).

Interested in the project?

We can reach on Whatsapp : 001 415 952 0586

05/28/2026

En 2014, je récupérais des meubles abandonnés dans la cave. Aujourd’hui, je lève des fonds pour la grande vision !

Tout a démarré en 2014 quand je logeais à San Francisco.
Mon loyer était bien cher pour un simple étudiant.
Alors je me suis dit : pourquoi pas installer quelques matelas par terre et proposer aux visiteurs de venir loger chez moi contre un dédommagement ?

Dans la cave de l’immeuble, un immeuble assez chic, il y avait de chouettes meubles abandonnés.
Je les ai pris, j’ai aménagé le salon, et en deux-trois mouvements, c’était fait.

J’ai publié sur internet, c’est mon côté geek…
J’ai été très étonné que des tas de gens inspirants d’Europe et d’Asie réservent ce modeste matelas dans mon salon.
J’ai rencontré des tas de gens passionnants.
C’était la naissance de “Serendipia Start Up Flat”.
Et c’est ce qui a fait naître en moi la flamme Serendipia.

Je voulais rassembler ces gens, inspirants, intelligents, entrepreneurs, mentors, conseillers, dans une même MAISON.
Serendipia Nest !

C’est pour ça que j’ai continué avec des événements, des rendez-vous.
Et que maintenant, c’est encore et toujours cette flamme Serendipia Hotel qui se développe au travers de l’immobilier.

Oui, je lève des fonds.
Plus pour un matelas dans mon salon.
Pour réaliser cette grande vision.;-)

05/27/2026

Most entrepreneurs who are stuck aren't lacking effort. They're lacking a VMVA.(doigt vers le bas)

Among the Serendipa community, I've met dozens of founders working 60-hour weeks…
And going nowhere!
The problem was never talent !
NEVER !

It was the absence of clear answers to 4 fundamental questions.

V — Vision Where do you want to be in 10 years?
Not in 6 months. In 10 years. If you can't answer in one sentence, your team can't follow you.
M — Mission Why do you exist, beyond profit, of course ?
This is what makes people buy, join, invest.
V — Values What will you never do, even if it pays?
Values aren't a slide in a pitch deck. They're the decisions you make when no one is watching.
A — Ambition What is the real size of what you're building?
Not what you dare say in public. What you tell yourself at 11pm.

When I formalized my VMVA for Serendipia, everything changed.
Decisions became simpler.

The right people started gravitating toward the project.
And raising capital became a conversation, not a plea.
The next level doesn't require more effort.
It requires more clarity.

Have you already defined your VMVA?

05/16/2026

Most real estate investors read the same 10 books ! BUT only 3️⃣ actually change how you think. 👇

After years of acquiring, operating, and raising capital in real estate, here’s what I’d put in every serious investor’s hands:

1️⃣ Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert KiyosakiNot a real estate manual. A mindset reset. It doesn’t teach you how to invest. It teaches you why you must. Read it first. Everything else makes more sense after.
2️⃣ The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, Gary KellerThis is where the mindset meets the model. Concrete frameworks. Real numbers. No fluff. The book that turns “I want to invest” into “here’s how I’ll do it.”
3️⃣ The Art of the Deal, Donald TrumpControversial author. Irrelevant. The deal logic inside this book is surgical. If you want to understand leverage, negotiation, and positioning, it’s required reading.
Most people stop at book one.

The ones who read all three start seeing deals differently.

Which one have you already read?

05/15/2026

“Hey Dad, why do you work such weird hours?!” That's the question I asked my father when I was 10 years old...

He replied, “I like being free and having control over my projects.”

My father is a public work and steel industrial entrepreneur.

I'll never forget his answer.

Through my child’s eyes, I saw a father who worked with passion,

and not from 9 to 5 !

(Of course, some employees are passionate, I’m talking about the ones who wait until 5 p.m. to leave.)

For me, his answer boils down to one word, one value:

FREEDOM.

It’s the same value I want to share with you through this post.

But also with the entire Serendipia community that we’ve been building together for over 10 years!

And you, what did your parents tell you about their work? Their hours?

Dis papa, pourquoi tu travailles à des horaires bizarres?! C’est la question que j’ai posée à mon père quand j’avais 10 ans..

Il m’a répondu : J’aime être libre et avoir le contrôle sur mes projets

Je n'oublierai jamais cette réponse de mon père.

Avec mes yeux d’enfants, je voyais un père qui travaillait avec passion

et pas de 9h à 17h !

Sa réponse pour moi se résume en un mot, une valeur :

LIBERTE.

C’est la même valeur que je souhaite vous transmettre au travers de cette publication.

Mais également à toute la communauté serendipia que nous continuons à co construire depuis plus de 10 ans !

Et vous, vos parents vous disaient quoi sur leur travail ? Leurs horaires ?

05/13/2026

Voilà un mec qui sait se mettre à poil ! C’est justement ce qui crée des communautés fortes !
Je parle de…

Quand je dis “à poil”, je parle d’AUTHENTICITE.

Vous allez comprendre pourquoi je dis “à poil”

J’avais lu, il y a quelques mois, dans l’ECHO ceci :

"J'étais virtuellement milliardaire, mais mes boîtes étaient des châteaux de cartes"

Cet entrepreneur, c’est Jean-Christophe Conticello !

Ce serial-entrepreneur français a lancé Giants, avec l'ambition de devenir le plus important réseau d'entrepreneurs d'Europe.
Il veut y transmettre les leçons d'une tumultueuse carrière, faite de (très) hauts et de (très) bas.

Et ce que j’ai vu la semaine passée à Bruxelles était impressionnant :
une communauté d’entrepreneurs rassemblée autour des mêmes valeurs !

J’y ai rencontré des gens passionnants et passionnés.
D’ailleurs, si vous vous trouvez sur la photo, faites moi signe en commentaire
(ca me fera plaisir de vous retrouver ici)

J’ai pu passé sur scène ce jour-là et y transmettre ma vision pour Serendipia!
Celle qui m’anime depuis plus de 10 ans !

La vidéo de ce passage sur scène arrive très bientôt, stay connected ;-)
Et encore bravo à Jean Christophe pour ce superbe séminaire !

05/12/2026

🤖 À l’heure des robots, on nous fait croire qu’il suffit d’un “bon prompt” pour créer une communauté forte ! 🧐 Mais moi, je connais le secret pour le faire 👇🏼

C’est justement…
Qu’il n’y a PAS de secret !
Pas de prompt !

C’est comme un bon date, une belle amitié…
Zéro prompt ! 😏

Une communauté, c’est ce qu’il y a de plus fort…
C’est 100% humain !
C’est 100% émotion, juste du lien ! 🫸🏼🫷🏿

Vous pensez vraiment qu’un robot peut faire cela ?

Quand on a commencé à créer la communauté Serendipia Hotels à San Francisco il y a 10 ans,
Ce qui a construit la communauté :
→ se rencontrer en vrai
→ se rassembler autour de nos sujets préférés
→ s’écouter, débattre, échanger, avancer

À l’époque, on faisait même des “Fire Side Chat”
On s’asseyait dans notre salon ou notre garage et on parlait entrepreneuriat, big why, vision…

Vous sentez cette chaleur humaine ? 💓
Aucun prompt ne pourra vous l’apporter ! ❌
Non? 😉

PS : merci à Arabel pour cette belle interview🎤

04/27/2026

Why the world's most sophisticated investors are making a major move into hospitality real estate right now.

The answer I hear most often when I mention hospitality to serious investors?
"It's too volatile. Too operational. Too risky."
I get it.
And that's exactly why the opportunity exists.

What most people miss about this sector:

A hospitality asset isn't just real estate.
It's a hybrid: a physical asset and an operating business combined. Where an office building generates a fixed lease, a hospitality asset captures rising demand in real time: through dynamic pricing, F&B, events, wellness.
When demand goes up, revenue follows. Immediately.

The numbers speak for themselves:
→ $57.3B invested in global hospitality in 2024, per JLL, with a projected 15-25% growth for 2025
→ €17.4B in European hotel transactions
→ Blackstone, Starwood, and KKR accounted for nearly a quarter of European deals
These aren't speculative investors. They allocate capital with discipline.
The real question isn't "is it too risky?"
It's "why are the best capital allocators in the world increasing their exposure right now?"

What the best academic research says:
Emma Näpänkangas at EHL, École Hôtelière de Lausanne, the world's leading hospitality business school, recently published one of the most comprehensive guides to hospitality real estate investing available today.

Her conclusion on strategy is clear: the most attractive window right now is value-add. Acquiring underperforming or mismanaged assets with clear repositioning potential. Target IRRs between 12-18% on European assets, according to CBRE.

As one EHL alum and Colliers analyst put it:
"What makes hospitality real estate so remarkably unique is how closely operations and experience tie into asset value. Brand selection, guest journey design, even decisions like whether to include wellness or F&B concepts can materially impact performance."
That's not a soft observation. That's a due diligence checklist.

My own connection to EHL goes further than my studies there.
When I was developing the Serendipia Hotels project, I invited EHL students to conduct a full financial and strategic analysis of the asset: market positioning, revenue projections, operational model, competitive benchmarking.
Their analysis reinforced the thesis. That's the most credible signal I can share.

I'm currently developing a community-driven hospitality asset in Brussels. Multiple revenue streams, value-add entry point, a loyalty model that depends on no distribution platform.
The doors aren't open yet.

But I'm building the list of people I want in the room when they are.
Follow this profile if you want to understand how hospitality deals are really structured. No jargon, no fluff.

If that's you, reach out directly : Jean-Loïck Michaux, on WhatsApp : + 1 415 952 0586

10/20/2023