If you are a hospitality asset manager and oversee hotel real estate investments in your investors portfolio that include lodging property in San Francisco, consider yourself lucky. Not because my group has been based here for over twenty-five years or because it’s a world class city second to none in many categories. It’s because the…
The latest lodging reports by hotel industry expert firms in the brokerage sector who specialize in selling hotels in this business point to an ideal mix of strong investor interest and sluggish growth in any new hotels being built. This is especially true in California where buying hotels is once again the hot investment sector…
Unlike branded or franchised hotels and resorts where those standards already set it apart, hotel turnaround management to improve the quality and class of independent lodging properties often requires another approach. That approach could rely on the common standards that many leisure and business travelers consult, such as the American Automobile Association and Mobile Travel…
Hotel experts are not fully comfortable with the status of the market enough to recommend a strong buy. STR’s chairman and founder, Randy Smith, says – “We have never seen supply growth this low when we’ve seen demand this high” (04 June 2013). For some reason, the market is not rushing to invest in that demand…
Part of hotel investor services is advising clients when to buy, hold or sell during the investment period. Hotel real estate in the USA is very cyclical. It usually has a seven to ten year cycle that mirrors the lows and highs of the national economy. – Since 2008, we have been in the bottom…
There are a couple resources from a hotel management consultant view that are worth looking at if you are trying to find Chinese hotel investors for your particular deal. Despite the recent financial fallout over the debt plan and the S&P rating and downgrade of U.S. Treasury bonds, a number of hotel transactions in 2011…
Obviously Warren Buffet’s Blackstone Group and others think now is the time to buy a hotel in the USA. Although there is still a lot of distress talk amongst hotel owners and operators alike, there are also various signs pointing at the recovery, albeit a slow one, is starting to muster some momentum. Here are…
Recent reports by analysts we follow as hotel investment advisors continue to be positive for both domestic and international hotel markets going forward. Overall statistics for hotel occupancies and average room rates, at least in major cities, remains positive for this year and next. In the “USA” and according to the folks at PKF Hospitality…
If you are looking to buy a hotel, the lack of financing for lodging properties is starting to diminish at least with one major bank. Wells Fargo recently announced loan financing options available to hotel owners and investors. It has already closed some loan deals as well. So what is the catch and will you…
The number of stories with hotel experts and the news media opining on the state of the recovery in the USA and where opportunity lies is as varied as the number of hotel brands that have proliferated since the last boom. In some aspects, it looks like we are headed to another ramp up in…