Through the first five months of the year, the pace of hotel transactions has been steady and strong, but not spectacular. That could soon be about to change, according to many lodging leaders at the NYU International...
While REITs and many private equity buyers remain quiet, opportunities exist for other investors to take advantage of a lodging market ripe with promise...
Tom Engel spent the 1980s helping launch brands like Embassy Suites, Crowne Plaza and Hawthorn Suites, then turned his attention to managing the hotel portfolio of AXA Equitable during the 1990s as an executive vice...
Pegasus Solutions CEO Mike Kistner gave perhaps the best description of the mood at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit: “It’s business-as-usual optimism,” he explained while sitting in the far quieter lobby of the...
The return of the Americas Lodging Investment Summit to Los Angeles and the new J.W. Marriott at LA Live brought out big numbers and even bigger names. The third largest crowd ever — approximately 2,400 — sat...
Unlike the operating side of the hotel industry, the real estate recovery hasn’t been as clearly defined. Transaction volumes rose again in 2011, values have grown faster than anyone expected and overall industry...
The combination of steadily improving operating fundamentals, historically low supply growth and a wave of CMBS loans reaching maturity in the next few years makes now a “fertile opportunity” for investment, says...
