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Optimum Hotel Brokerage Sells First Mortgage Notes on Two New Jersey Hotels

Limited Service Hotel Notes Sold for Regional Bank


Philadelphia PA, June 20, 2012 Optimum Hotel Brokerage announced today that the firm has closed on the first mortgage note sale of two New Jersey limited service hotels: the Ramada Limited in Galloway and the Econolodge in Farmingdale.  Joseph R. McCann, Optimum’s president, was the exclusive hotel broker and Licensed New Jersey Real Estate Broker representing the seller in both note sale transactions, a regional bank.  The buyers of the notes were each regional hotel investors.



“The Ramada Limited hotel is a 129-unit former Hampton Inn located in the rebounding Atlantic City market” said McCann, “and the Econolodge Farmingdale is a 30-unit limited service hotel in the Asbury Park/Neptune market.”  “Optimum Hotel Brokerage has long been active in the New Jersey distressed hotel and note-sale market, and we’re able to target the marketing process to bring our clients efficient, non-contingent transactions.”  Optimum Hotel Brokerage has brokered numerous distressed hotel assets in the past twelve months, including the Days Inn Groton in Groton, Connecticut, the Hampton Inn Lehighton in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, the Inn at Panther Valley in Allamuchy, New Jersey, the York View Hotel in York, Pennsylvania, the Skyview Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Litchfield Inn in Litchfield Connecticut.

Optimum Hotel Brokerage is also a member and Joe McCann is past president of Hotel Brokers International, the world’s largest and oldest hospitality real estate organization, which has a rich heritage of experience and expertise in hotel real estate valuation, transactions and other essential services.  Comprised of some 50 hotel real estate broker specialist s, HBI provides the hospitality industry with its most powerful hotel real estate marketing force, creating greater visibility through a unified and inclusive advertising and marketing approach.  Mr. McCann has earned the designation of Certified Hotel Broker, with distinction, from the organization, and was recognized as HBI’s Broker of the Year for the Northeast Region for many years.  HBI has also awarded McCann with the Portfolio Sale of the Year, and Unique Deal of the Year.  Optimum Hotel Brokerage and Joe McCann was awarded HBI’s prestigious Broker of the Year Award in 2006.  Optimum Hotel Brokerage is also a provider of expert witness testimony in hotel bankruptcy, distressed hotel litigation, franchising, and hotel operations.

Mr. McCann is chairman of the Penn State Hotel and Restaurant Society, representing the more than 7,000 alumni of Penn State's renowned School of Hospitality Management.  Optimum Hotel Brokerage has endowed scholarships at the school to provide financial assistance to students demonstrating financial need at the school.

For complete exclusive listings of hotels for sale, please go to www.optimumbrokerage.com.  For a complimentary valuation of your hotel, call 215-572-7711.

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Joe McCann, President
Optimum Hotel Brokerage
23 Breyer Court
Elkins Park, PA 19027
Phone: 215-572-7711,  Fax: 215-572-7570
[email protected]

For more information, listings, or a complimentary
hotel valuation, visit www.optimumbrokerage.com


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