Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) Leads the Sale of the Hampton Inn Houston NW
Paramount Lodging Advisors | October 7, 2020
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts the Spanish Garden Inn Santa Barbara
Paramount Lodging Advisors | September 30, 2020
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Avison Young 2021 Transactions
Avison Young | July 27, 2021
ATLANTA – July 28, 2021 – Avison Young Hospitality Group announced that the firm closed its 50th hotel transaction for 2021. Of the 50 closings, 29 were Hilton and or Marriott branded assets and the remaining transactions were among other brand families. Geographically, the hotels were located from the Pacific Northwest, California, across the Midwest and along Eastern seaboard states ending with Connecticut Keith Thompson said, “The closings represent broad segment diversity from upper upscale, midscale to economy and even a couple of independent hotels. It was good to see corporate-driven hotels transacting at a more brisk pace tha...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Arranges the Sale of the Holiday Inn La Mesa San Diego, California
Paramount Lodging Advisors | July 14, 2021
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) is pleased to announce the sale of Holiday Inn La Mesa San Diego to Greens Group based in Irvine CA. The hotel is located at 8000 Parkway Dr, La Mesa, CA, proximate to a diverse base of demand generators that included San Diego State University, Sharp Grossmont Hospital, Regen BioPharma, Zander Therapeutics, Grossmont Center for Clinical Research, and Kaiser Permanente. The two-story, 141-room, Holiday Inn hotel will undergo a multi-million-dollar renovation to be repositioned as a Holiday Inn Express. The PLA team members Senior Managing Director, Scott Griemsmann and Senior Associate, Subu Thiagarajan ...
DiamondRock Hospitality Company Completes Disposition of 725-Room Lexington Hotel in New York City
DiamondRock Hospitality Company | July 6, 2021
BETHESDA, Md., July 6, 2021 -- DiamondRock Hospitality Company (the "Company") (NYSE: DRH) announced today that it completed the disposition of the 725-room Lexington Hotel in New York City on June 30, 2021 for $185.3 million. Including the Company's projected capital expenditures, the sale price represents a 14.2x multiple on 2019 Hotel EBITDA and a 5.4% capitalization rate on 2019 Hotel net operating income. The Company intends to redeploy the net proceeds from the sale to acquire high-growth experiential resort and urban lifestyle hotels aligned with its investment strategy. "We are pleased to announce the closing of this trans...
Park Hotels & Resorts Completes Sale of the Hotel Indigo San Diego Gaslamp Quarter and Courtyard Washington Capitol Hill Navy Yard
Park Hotels & Resorts | July 1, 2021
TYSONS, Va., July 1, 2021 -- Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. (“Park”) (NYSE:PK) today announced that it has closed on the sale of the 210-room Hotel Indigo San Diego Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, CA and the 204-room Courtyard Washington Capitol Hill Navy Yard in Washington, DC, for combined gross proceeds of $149 million, or approximately $360,000 per key. When adjusted for Park’s anticipated capital expenditures (“capex”), the sale price represents a 7.0% capitalization rate on 2019 net operating income (7.4% excluding capex), or 12.8x 2019 EBITDA (12.2x excluding capex). Proceeds from the sale will be used to fully repay debt curre...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts Las Vegas Hotel
Paramount Lodging Advisors | June 29, 2021
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) is pleased to announce the sale of the property at located at 1440 E Craig Rd, North Las Vegas was represented by Associate, Suzanna Farley Aldrich. “The My Place Hotel Franchise added a new franchisee to its family with the sale of the North Las Vegas My Place Hotel. Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer! This property is a great addition to the buyers’ growing portfolio and allows the franchise to continue its impressive growth even in this challenging market,” stated Suzanna. The four-story, 63-room, MyPlace Hotel opened in 2018 in one of Nevada’s fastest-growing cities. The Hotel i...
Could REIT M&A Be on Track for a Record Year?
JLL | June 23, 2021
CHICAGO – June 23, 2021 – REIT M&A activity has totaled $70 billion year-to-date, putting it on track to be a record-breaking year as companies emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. JLL Capital Markets’ M&A and Corporate Advisory group’s latest M&A and Strategic Transactions Monitor report shows how the positive themes in the public capital markets space are contributing to this M&A surge. “The record in this economic cycle was set in 2006 when REIT M&A volume reached $103 billion for the year,” said Steve Hentschel, head of JLL M&A and Corporate Advisory. “REITs have enjoyed a strong run ...
BuildCentral Announces Geospex™, a New Planned Construction Visualization Tool for Real Estate Market Opportunity and Risk Analysis
BuildCentral | June 23, 2021
Real estate, finance and construction industry pros can now use planned construction data visualization to better understand opportunities and risks in key markets. CHICAGO, June 23, 2021 -- BuildCentral today announced Geospex™, a new planned construction visualization tool built for real estate, finance and construction industry professionals. Geospex™ provides a new way for construction industry, finance and real estate professionals to better evaluate their key markets for growth opportunities and potential risks. Using ESRI geospatial technology, Geospex™ pairs planned real estate development data from BuildCentral with ...
Investors Targeting Distressed Assets Work to Get “Dry Powder” Off the Sidelines
Turnbull Capital Group | November 30, 2020
Firms waiting for an opportunity to invest in distressed assets are looking at different avenues to approach their goals. Turnbull Capital Group is one player in an increasingly crowded field of capital jockeying for opportunity to take advantage of potential distress that may emerge in the commercial real estate market in the wake of the pandemic. Over the past nine months, the commercial real estate investment banking firm has partnered with more than $20+ billion in dry powder that it plans to aim at investment opportunities in distressed assets. Specifically, it has aligned itself with a half dozen domestic family offices and Ameri...
Estatefy Chooses NextPax as Exclusive Channel Manager
Estatefy | November 3, 2020
Barcelona, November 2020 - Estatefy, a leading all in one software solution for property managers, real estate brokers, vacation home owners and vacation rental management companies selects NextPax, provider of one of the most advanced worldwide channel management technologies for hotels, resorts and vacation rentals as its exclusive channel manager. One of the main selling points for the Estatefy and NextPax combination is that real estate agents can now combine their real estate sales software with vacation rental software capabilities. This powerful combination will provide brokers with much more added value and income. ‘Our partnership...
Avison Young Announces Weekly Open Forum Results
Avison Young | October 27, 2020
ATLANTA – October 27, 2020 – Two weeks ago, Avison Young Hospitality Group launched a weekly virtual forum for every Monday at 2pm eastern time running through the end of the year. The main focus of the 45-minute virtual forum is to answer live questions from the participants who are private and public hotel investors, lenders, owners and operators. The hotel investment world has changed since COVID and we want to be a resource to the marketplace. Keith Thompson said, “This forum is not a sales pitch for our company. It is simply a resource. With hundreds already registered for each Monday, the questions and answers seem to be driven...
New Hospitality Group, Long Weekend, Launches Hotel Portfolio
Long Weekend | October 26, 2020
Properties include The Lake House on Canandaigua, The Seagate Hotel & Beach Club and The Elbow Cay Club in Abaco, Bahamas New York, NY (October 26, 2020) – Launching today is Long Weekend, a new hospitality group with three projects under its flag. The independent collective will bring together award-winning designers, architects, restaurateurs and operators to create thoughtfully designed properties located in unexpected destinations. Each Long Weekend property, a mixture of existing and yet to be built, will be unified by a common goal. To create spaces and experiences that hold lasting memories. Long Weekend properties redef...
Avison Young Announces Weekly Open Forum
Avison Young | October 14, 2020
ATLANTA – October 14, 2020 – Avison Young Hospitality Group announces the firm launched a weekly virtual forum for every Monday at 2pm eastern starting with next Monday, October 19th. The forum will start with a very short overview of the previous week lodging performance at the property level as well as at the publicly traded level. The main focus of the 45-minute virtual forum is to answer live questions from the participants. Keith Thompson said, “This forum is for private and public hotel investors, owners, operators who needs clear answers and sound advice. The hotel investment world has changed since COVID and we want to be a r...
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) Facilitates the Sale of the Four Points College Station
Paramount Lodging Advisors | October 13, 2020
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) successfully led the sale of the Four Points located in College Station, TX. The marketing efforts were led by Managing Director Kami Burnette, Senior Managing Director Scott Griemsmann and Associate Mason McDavid. The 126-room hotel is adjacent to Texas A&M University, the largest university in Texas and one of the biggest employers in the region. The university also provides infrastructure and research for a growing engineering, agriculture and biomedical sector. The upscale hotel also has a 92-seat restaurant that operates for breakfast and dinner services. "This acquisition highlights the buyer...
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) Leads the Sale of the Hampton Inn Houston NW
Paramount Lodging Advisors | October 7, 2020
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) is pleased to announce the sale of the Hampton Inn NW (Subject) located in Houston, TX. PLA was exclusively engaged to represent the seller in the transaction of the 62-room property. The marketing efforts were led by Managing Director Kami Burnette, Senior Associate Subu Thiagarajan and Associate Mason McDavid. The Houston hotel is located in the northwest Houston MSA and ideally situated at the intersection of US Route 290 and TX State Highway 6. The Buyer plans to renovate and maintain the Subject as a Hampton Inn for the remainder of the term. “There has been much discussion over the near-term...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts the Spanish Garden Inn Santa Barbara
Paramount Lodging Advisors | September 30, 2020
Santa Barbara, CA - Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has successfully executed on the sale of the Spanish Garden Inn. The Spanish Garden Inn is an award-winning luxury boutique hotel located within walking distance to many of Santa Barbara’s renowned cultural centers and restaurants. The hotel's 24 luxuriously-appointed guestrooms and suites are spread throughout 5 buildings surrounding a central courtyard with fountain and lush gardens. Scott Griemsmann, Eric Gunderson and Subu Thiagarajan represented the Seller in the transaction. “In spite of the challenges surrounding Covid-19, this asset generated tremendous interest which is a...
Property Taxes Post COVID-19
Brian F. Bisema | September 28, 2020
By Brian Bisema, Suzanne Mellen After realizing record-high RevPAR levels with over 100 consecutive months of growth, the lodging industry continued to strengthen through 2019, albeit at a significantly more tempered rate. Then, in the first quarter of 2020, COVID-19 struck. The unimaginable pandemic erased years of RevPAR gains virtually overnight, leaving owners and operators scrambling to strategize the forthcoming steps. While logistics pertaining to reopening hotels, new sanitation standards, and controlling variable operational expenses are on the forefront of hoteliers’ minds, fixed expenses, particularly an asset’s property tax...
Paramount Capital Advisors Welcomes Matt Mitchell to the Team
Paramount Capital Advisors | September 28, 2020
Paramount Capital Advisors is pleased to announce the addition of Matt Mitchell to the team as Managing Director. Mitchell brings over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate, having worked in roles financing complex real estate transactions throughout the U.S. Most recently, Mitchell served as Senior Vice President with Hall Structured Finance (Hall) where his responsibilities included loan origination for their construction and bridge lending program. Mitchell was responsible for executing over $500 million of real estate transactions primarily focused on funding loans for the construction of hotels, multifamily and condo proj...
Critical Components of an Effective “Order to Appoint a Receiver” – From the Lender’s Perspective
Victoria 'Vicki' S Richman | September 17, 2020
By Vicki Richman It is inevitable – many hotels will go into receivership and/or foreclosure in the coming months. Some owners cannot afford to fight any longer, some lenders cannot kick the can down the road any longer, or any number of other reasons will start them down this path. Receiverships can be extremely beneficial to the lender or they can be problematic. The three tools central to establishing a receivership which is beneficial to the lender are: 1) the right Receiver 2) the right Receiver’s attorney, and 3) a strategically drafted “Order to Appoint a Receiver.” This article addresses the third tool in a lender’s to...
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) Leads the Successful Sale of the Houston Area Candlewood Suites
Paramount Lodging Advisors | September 9, 2020
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) is pleased to announce the sale of the Candlewood Suites in Kingwood, TX. PLA was exclusively engaged to represent the seller in the transaction of the 73-room property. The marketing efforts were led by Managing Director Kami Burnette and Associate Mason McDavid. The 77-room property is in the heart of Kingwood and is ideally located near the Kingwood Medical District. Future plans include converting the property to an Extended Stay America branded hotel. “This is an unprecedented environment with numerous headwinds including COVID-related travel restrictions and frozen capital markets. We are excit...
Reaction to the Recent Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal Disney Yacht & Beach Club Resort Decision
Daniel Lesser | August 19, 2020
By Daniel Lesser The monograph “The Valuation of Hotels and Motels” by Stephen Rushmore, published by the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers in 1978, posited the first accepted methodology for separating out income attributable to business (“intangible asset”) and income attributable to personal property from the entire income stream of a lodging facility. The procedure, which to this day continues to reflect the thinking and actions of hotel sector market participants, has been termed the “Rushmore Approach” within the property tax arena. On June 19th, 2020, The Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal issued a fl...
How Much Is a Hotel Worth?
Pinnacle Advisory Group | July 15, 2020
By Allison Fogarty In the case of property tax assessments in Florida, probably somewhat less than the county property appraiser assumes. A recent court decision invalidated the method used by many county property tax appraisers in Florida to develop “just” values for hotels. The Background Walt Disney Parks and Resorts successfully argued that the Orange County Property Appraiser improperly considered income from the business activities conducted on the premises in establishing the just value of the Disney Yacht & Beach Club Resort which includes restaurants, retail shops, a spa and convention center in addition to its 1,197...
Hunden Partners Seeks Hotel Developer for High-Traffic Site at I-74 and IL-54
Hunden Strategic Partners | June 25, 2020
CHICAGO - June 25, 2020 - Hunden Strategic Partners (HSP), a leading advisor in destination real estate development, is issuing a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on behalf of the City of Farmer City (City) from developers and/or development teams regarding the ultimate development of all or part of a 20-acre parcel (Project) at Interstate 74 and IL-54 in Farmer City, Illinois. The site has a daily traffic count of 22,000 along I-74 and 4,000 along IL-54. Located halfway between Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington-Normal, the development site sits approximately 1.5 miles from downtown Farmer City within a Business Improvement District, establ...
Post-COVID Brokers Opinion of Value
Avison Young | May 14, 2020
ATLANTA – May 14, 2020 – Avison Young Hospitality Group presents a new Post-COVID Brokers Opinion of Value Format. The hospitality industry has been shaken to its core over last several months by the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic shutdown the virus has left in its wake. Markets across the country and the world have seen business grind to a halt, with hoteliers in every corner of the globe feeling immense economic pressure from the drastic loss in business. We at Avison Young understand the hotel owner’s need for a property specific presentation they can use for their partners, investors and lenders that demonstrates vi...
From Density to Distancing
H. Keith Thompson | May 12, 2020
By H. Keith Thompson, Principal Avison Young Hospitality Group Ten short weeks ago, business was about packing in as much density with as many people as possible. From hotels, conventions, sports venues, air travel, resorts, retail, and office buildings - down to going to a Costco. Now, ten weeks later, it is all about staying separate and distancing yourself from other people. How can this be possible? Because COVID-19 (‘CV”) has caused a shift in the paradigm of personal life and commercial life that no one saw coming. Ten weeks in, we now judge every face-to-face interaction differently than we used to. Behind closed doors, al...
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