Nov. 23, 2015 – PORTSMOUTH, NH – Lodging Econometrics noted that through the third quarter of 2015 there were a reported 1,175 individual hotel and portfolio transactions (excluding merger & acquisition activity) in the U.S. compared to 1,018 in 2014. It means that the number of transactions in 2015 are likely to close at an eight-year high, but the final count will still be approximately 25% lower than the peak established in 2007.