hotel transactions
Q2 2024 Major U.S. Hotel Sales Survey
Daniel Lesser | July 22, 2024
By Daniel H. Lesser Despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary policy aimed at controlling persistent inflation, during the first half of 2024, the U.S. economy continued to demonstrate resilience. While strong growth in many subcategories of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) including consumer and government spending, investment, exports, and employment have many optimistic, the economic outlook is tempered by global geopolitical risks including on-going wars in Europe and the Middle East. Although the U.S. economic outlook remains positive, signs of a softening consumer are mounting within lower-to-middle-income households. While re...
Alternative Financing to Help Close Hotel Deals
Emil Iskandar | June 12, 2024
Like other commercial real estate (CRE) sectors, the hospitality industry has seen a drop in deal volume. The very stubborn inflation level kept benchmark lending rates elevated for most of last year, and this trend is expected to continue this year. To make matters worse, lenders—particularly local and regional banks—are facing their own issues with maintaining sufficient liquidity to make loans, as well as managing CRE concentration and sub-performing loans in their books. The pool of active hospitality lenders is arguably much smaller today, and those who are still actively lending are very selective in adding new loans to their balanc...
Travel and Tourism Sector Deal Activity Down by 13.5% YoY in January-April 2024, Finds GlobalData
GlobalData | May 15, 2024
Travel and tourism sector witnessed the announcement of 217 deals (mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals) during January-April 2024 compared to the announcement of 251 deals during the same period in previous year. This represents a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 13.5% in deals volume during January-April 2024, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Aurojyoti Bose, Lead Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Deal activity in travel and tourism sector remained subdued amid the uncertain market conditions and ongoing geopolitical tensions. Several leading economies including the ...
Understanding the Current State of the Hotel Transaction Market
Eric Guerrero | May 15, 2024
By Eric Guerrero, Josh Williams The hotel transaction market continues to face significant headwinds. Investors are still concerned about the prohibitive cost of debt, and with the chances of a summer rate cut from the Fed becoming slimmer, expensive debt may remain for the foreseeable future. Additional challenges to getting deals done are the bid-ask spread, rising operational costs, and extensive change-of-ownership property improvement plans (PIPs). As ownership groups consider placing their hotel assets on the market, they should consider how these headwinds are affecting buyer underwriting so that they have realistic pricing expectat...
Q1 2024 Major U.S. Hotel Sales Survey
Daniel Lesser | May 2, 2024
By Daniel H. Lesser While the U.S. economy continues to expand and is currently a major driver of global growth, inflation has recently ticked up after falling considerably from a peak of 9.1% nearly two years ago. Many now perceive that in the near term, the U.S. Federal Reserve will not reduce borrowing costs, and some anticipate a resumption of raising rates by early 2025. Unless a severe economic downturn occurs, interest rates are likely to remain relatively elevated for an extended period. A tight labor market and strong household net worth have led to remarkable resilience in U.S. consumer spending as Americans continue to enjoy...
Avison Young – Ten Years of Performance
Avison Young | April 25, 2024
ATLANTA – April 25, 2024 – Avison Young Hospitality Group releases today its Ten Years of Performance presentation. Last 10 Years Sales Performance...
Hotel Investment in the Alps Heats Up
JLL | March 26, 2024
Climate change is driving record transaction levels in high-altitude, luxury hotels Long famed for its ski resorts, mountain towns in the French Alps have recently seen an uplift in investor interest. The Savoie and Haute-Savoie regions alone have seen hotel transaction volumes double over the past two years, breaking records with more than €800 million ($875 million) of hotel deals closed, JLL data shows. “Due to the warming climate, and limited new supply of ski resorts, more snow-sure locations at higher altitudes are commanding premium values,” says Matthieu Subit, JLL’s Vice President of Hotels and Hospitality for EMEA Cap...
Avison Young Closed 12 Hotel Transactions Over Last 90 Days
Avison Young | March 11, 2024
ATLANTA – March 11, 2024 – Avison Young announces today that the firm has closed 12 hotel transactions over the last 90 days. Four of the sales were Hilton-branded hotels, two were Marriott-branded hotels, and an IHG and other brands made up the balance. Geographically the hotels were located in the following states – IN, KY, PA, CO, VA, AR, MA, GA, and TN. Of special note, Thierry Roch and Rick George closed a sale on a boutique hotel in the Cape Cod area for close to 1m per room and Chris Kilcullen closed the sale for the upscale Ascent on Main in Parker, CO. Chris Stark, Brad Sinclair, Mike George, Thierry Roch and Rick George were t...
