The brand name Derag Hotel and Living, a company of the Derag Group, emerged in the early 1980s. The American Serviced Apartment concept as „temporary living“ was adapted to European requirements and was realised in 1982 in the first hotel „Max Emanuel“ in Munich. The company is called Derag Livinghotels since 2011.

The concept of Derag Livinghotels supplies the needs of both short and extended stays. Therefore the company offers Serviced Apartments with fully equipeed kitchnettes and services free of choice for extended stays as well as hotel rooms with typical services for short stays. The main target market in the apartment segment are business travellers and 2-city-commuters  who stay on business for extended periods of time in a city. Furthermore people who are moving home and plan on extended stays as well as families. The hotel rooms are aiming at the „classic“ hotel guest of city hotels in the upper segment.

The Munich-based company is the German-market leader in offering long term accomodation. With a total of 13 own houses and round 2,500 hotel rooms and apartments  in seven attractive cities Derag Livinghotels offers the optimal space for short, medium and long term stays: Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Nuremberg, Weimar and Vienna. All locations have been chosen in respect to easy access to the city centres, motorways and public transport. 

Derag Livinghotels continues its strategy of growth in the future. The ambitious goals include the development of further national and international locations as well as the strenghtening of the market leadership in the Serviced Apartment segment. The first zero-engery hotel of the branch opens in autumn 2011 directly at the Viktualienmarkt in Munich. Two more hotels are planned in Dusseldorf, including the old city hall.