Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts in Lubbock With the Sale of the Embassy Suites
Paramount Lodging Advisors | January 17, 2023
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts Hotel Felix Downtown Chicago NPL
Paramount Lodging Advisors | November 17, 2022
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Ray Regan Joins Paramount Lodging Advisors Team
Paramount Lodging Advisors | March 23, 2023
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – The Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) team is pleased to announce Ray Regan as their newest Associate. Ray is joining fellow PLA team member, Michael Sheppard in the New Mexico office and will be focusing on the southwestern region of the United States. Ray has a successful background in both individual and portfolio hospitality and commercial transactions in the southwestern market. “I am thrilled to extend the invaluable experience and resources of the Paramount Lodging Advisors platform to the benefit of existing and prospective clients across New Mexico and the broader SW region,” stated Regan. Ray can be c...
European Hotel Values Rise 3% in 2022 in What Proved a Mixed Year for the Sector
March 23, 2023
Hotel values across Europe rose around 3% in 2022 with Paris, London, Zürich, Amsterdam and Rome remaining those with the highest valued hotels, according to our annual European Hotel Valuation Index (HVI) published this week. During 2022, hotel values benefitted from a number of factors including strong improvement in RevPAR and the recovery of ancillary revenues. Despite this, high inflation, an increasing cost of debt and the looming threat of recession limited the recovery of values, leaving them below their 2019 peak. ‘The pandemic year of 2020 witnessed hotel values plummet by around 15%, although they rallied by around 5...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts the Sale of Two Hotels in the Atlanta Market
Paramount Lodging Advisors | March 21, 2023
Carrollton, GA - Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has successfully executed the sale of the Best Western and Hilton branded hotels in Carrollton, GA. Texas-based Senior Managing Director Kami Burnette and Director Omari Head lead the sale of the Best Western in a traditional marketing process. The Hampton Inn Carrollton sale was represented by Omari Head along with Principals Bennett Webster and Brent Clemens. Paramount represented the receiver of the 2003 build, 77 key hotel. “Both properties generated significant interest and positive results for our clients,” stated Omari Head. “This is the second closing in the Atlanta area ...
Aspen Hospitality Forms Strategic Joint Venture With Continuum Partners
Aspen Hospitality | February 23, 2023
DENVER and ASPEN, Colo., Feb. 23, 2023-- Continuum Partners LLC, a Denver-based real estate developer specializing in building urban, mixed-use projects, announced today that it has sold an interest in the Hotel Born to Aspen Hospitality, the hospitality division of Aspen Skiing Company. The newly formed joint venture marks the beginning of the hotel's future conversion to Limelight Denver under the operation of Aspen Hospitality in 2023. Rick Rush of CBRE represented Continuum in the deal. Hotel Born will continue to operate as usual until the conversion to Limelight occurs, with the partners ensuring a seamless transition f...
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Completes Sale of The Heathman Hotel for $45M
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust | February 23, 2023
BETHESDA, M.D.-- Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB) (the “Company”) today announced that on February 22, 2023, it closed on the sale of the 151-room The Heathman Hotel in Portland, OR for $45.0 million to a third party. For the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2022, the hotel’s net operating income was $1.0 million, and its Hotel EBITDA was $1.2 million. Based on the hotel’s operating performance for 2019, the $45.0 million sales price reflects a 10.7x EBITDA multiple and an 8.4% net operating income capitalization rate. The net operating income for both periods mentioned above is after an assumed annual capital reserve o...
U.S. Hotel Sales Kick-Off 2023 With Record-Breaking Pricing in Growing Markets
JLL | February 16, 2023
Investors believe long-term growth trends will outweigh near-term capital markets headwinds CHICAGO, Feb. 16, 2023 – Despite a slowdown in sales in the second half of 2022 due to dislocation in the debt markets, hotel investors have kicked off 2023 with record sales for quality assets in highly desirable and growing markets. A recent example of these transactions includes the sale of the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, which was the third-largest single-asset sale in U.S. history. In addition, the recent closing of the AC Hotel Phoenix Biltmore set a record price-per-key for upscale select-service assets in the Phoenix mark...
Avison Young Hospitality Group’s Sales for Last Ten Years
Avison Young | February 2, 2023
ATLANTA – February 2, 2023 – Avison Young Hospitality Group announced that with the closings this week, the hotel brokerage firm has closed 595 hotel transactions over the last ten years. The brand mix was 149 Marriott, 114 Hilton, 67 IHG and Hyatt, 102 Choice and Wyndham and 163 other brands, boutiques, and independents. Geographically, 64 of the closings were in the Northwest, 89 in the Northeast, 91 in the Northcentral, 66 in the Southcentral and 285 in the Southeast. Brad Sinclair said, “clearly with recent interest rate hikes, the last several months have tested the resolve of hotel owners, developers, lenders, investors, and br...
The Mogharebi Group Brokers $16.25 Million Sale of 32-Room Hotel on California’s Central Coast
The Mogharebi Group | January 25, 2023
Costa Mesa, CA (January 25, 2023) — The Mogharebi Group (TMG) has arranged the sale of the Inn at Avila, a 32-room beachfront hotel property in the Central Coast city of Avila Beach, CA, for $16.25 million. Ben Ketel, of TMG, represented the seller of the hospitality property that traded to a Los Angeles-based private investor. Built in 1965, the Inn at Avila Beach offers eight different suite types, ranging from modern spa rooms to the exclusive “owner’s suite.” The property includes a rooftop coffee house, grilling area, a business center and laundry services. “The Buyer was certainly attracted to the fact that the Inn at Av...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts in Lubbock With the Sale of the Embassy Suites
Paramount Lodging Advisors | January 17, 2023
LUBBOCK, TX - Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has successfully executed the sale of a Hilton-branded hotel located in SW Lubbock near South Plains Mall. Texas-based Senior Managing Director Kami Burnette and Senior Associate Mason McDavid, along with Principals Bennett Webster and Brent Clemens represented the seller in the transaction. The full-service 156-key Embassy Suites was built in 1982 and features multiple meeting rooms and a restaurant. The new owners are excited to repurpose the legacy hotel to an alternative use in a growing Texas market, home to one of the state’s largest universities. “The hotel was sold unencumbere...
HVS Monday Musings: Understanding Hospitality REIT
Anand Rai | January 16, 2023
By Anand Rai, Dipti Mohan The US government first established Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in the 1960s, allowing retail investors access to the nation's vast portfolio of income-producing real estate assets. Since then, the REITs market has expanded significantly across many real estate asset classes, including hospitality. The first hospitality REIT (or lodging REIT) was introduced in the US in 1970, but this asset class didn't start to gain popularity until the mid-1990s when investors realized they could own and profit from lucrative hotel assets without having to spend a significant sum of money to acquire the asset. Today, a...
Q4 2022 Major U.S. Hotel Sales Survey
Daniel Lesser | January 16, 2023
By Daniel Lesser Heading into a new year, the U.S. commercial real estate industry finds itself in choppy waters amid fears of a recession, rising inflation, and interest rate hikes as market participants await a course correction. Challenges during 2022 including continued supply chain constraints, increasing labor costs and struggles in attracting talent are anticipated to endure through 2023. Combined with international and domestic geopolitical issues and market volatility, many believe during the near term, the U.S will experience a mild to moderate economic recession. Although inflation appears to have recently stabilized, it remains...
The Lost Hotels Of Midtown New York
Dexter Wood | January 12, 2023
By Dexter Wood Several legendary properties remain closed in Midtown New York, and most will never reopen. Luxury hotel demand staged a respectable resurgence last year as the dreadful impact of the pandemic continued to fade. Trailing twelve-month RevPAR for luxury hotels in NYC, as of November 2022, has already surpassed its pre-pandemic benchmark from December 2018. This was a welcome improvement for prominent Midtown hotels that had reopened after many months of closure, including the Mandarin Oriental, Ritz-Carlton, The Plaza, St. Regis, The Peninsula, and the Lotte New York Palace. However, some well-known properties that enjoy...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Welcomes Hunter Johnson to Team
Paramount Lodging Advisors | January 10, 2023
CHICAGO, IL – The Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) team is thrilled to welcome Hunter Johnson as Senior Associate. Hunter’s office will be based in Southwest Colorado with a focus on Colorado and Utah. Hunter has covered the industry with experience in hotel purchasing, financing, and brokerage. In the last 24 months, he has transacted over $87MM from small independent hotels to IHG and Hilton assets. “I am honored and grateful to be part of such an entrepreneurial, honorable, and hardworking team,” stated Johnson. If you would like to reach out to Hunter, he can be contacted at [email protected] or 970.880.0621....
Hilco Real Estate Announces the Sale of the Tru By Hilton Bryan College Station in Texas for $9.9 Million
Hilco Real Estate | January 5, 2023
NORTHBROOK, ILL (January 2023) – Hilco Real Estate (HRE) completed a successful sale of the Tru by Hilton Bryan College Station hotel for a total closing price of $9,900,000. Keith Worsham, senior vice president and head of the national hotel team at HRE, brokered the sale of the property on behalf of the seller, Wealth Hospitality. “Our team is happy to have helped our seller with this transaction resulting in $101,020 per key; and, at the same time, we were able to provide the buyer a new opportunity with the Hilton brand,” stated Keith Worsham. Located in Bryan, Texas, the property is well-positioned around Texas’ five major ...
Spirides Provides $14 Million Construction Financing for Major League Baseball Player Hotel in Dunedin, FL
Spirides Hotel Finance Company | November 22, 2022
TAMPA, FL—Spirides Hotel Finance Company has successfully provided, and the borrower has officially closed $14 million in construction-to-permanent mortgage financing from a Midwest U.S. headquartered bank to finance the development of a lodging facility in Dunedin, Florida for players of the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club, a Major League Baseball franchisee. Florida is well known for its multiple professional baseball Spring training facilities. After building in Dunedin their “second home,” a 65-acre, $100 million Player Development Complex training facility that includes a 115,000 square-foot multipurpose building, the Toronto B...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts Hotel Felix Downtown Chicago NPL
Paramount Lodging Advisors | November 17, 2022
Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has completed the sale of the Hotel Felix Downtown Chicago NPL. The PLA team representing seller was led by Bennett Webster, Brent Clemens, Mike Schlictman, and Andrew Makhlouf. The sale allowed the lender to unwind their existing interest on the $47MM non-performing loan. “Contrary to recent headlines, Chicago is open for business, and we believe remains grossly undervalued. Our team is bullish on the ongoing recovery for the city and underlying demand,” stated Schlictman. Makhlouf added, “We were very pleased with the market turnout for the auction and to have successfully monetized this po...
With Deal Leverage Shifting to Buyers and Financial Sources, All Eyes are On Hospitality Prognosis for 2023
Keith Worsham | November 15, 2022
By Keith Worsham In this article we take a look at the shifting landscape of hospitality industry transactions as post-pandemic travel trends begin to reveal themselves and operators grapple with the ramifications of more than two years of RevPAR setbacks. A Post-Pandemic Comeback... Of Sorts Prospects for the hotel industry going into 2023 fall somewhere between somewhat rosy and risky. The hospitality industry gathered in mid-August at the 14th Annual Hotel Data Conference in Nashville, Tennessee to discuss the near-term outlook, and as the editors of Hotel News Now (HNN) shared, “Speakers…acknowledged that the industry still is...
Q3 2022 Major U.S. Hotel Sales Survey
Daniel Lesser | November 9, 2022
By Daniel Lesser Economists, politicians, and business leaders are split on whether the U.S. economy is heading for a recession, is already in one, or will merely experience a slowdown. With continued supply chain disruptions, geopolitical conflicts (most notably the war in Ukraine), and the Fed’s determination to continue increasing the federal funds interest rate, there is tremendous uncertainty around inflation and where the economy is heading. Mixed signals abound, however U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) increased for the first time this year in the third quarter, expanding at a higher-than-expected 2.6 percent annually. Unemployme...
Avison Young Announces Recent Hotel Closings
Avison Young | November 3, 2022
ATLANTA – November 3, 2022 – Avison Young Hospitality Group announced that over the last two weeks the firm has closed several hotel transactions listed below. Brad Sinclair and Michael Bernath closed the sale on the 106-room Home2 Suites in York PA Brad Sinclair and Michael Bernath closed the sale on the 100-room Hampton Inn & Suites in York PA Mike George and Rick George closed the sale on the 120-room Holiday Inn Cary North Carolina Rick George and Mike George closed the sale on a Hampton Inn in central Illinois Chris Martin closed the sale on the 100-room Comfort Inn & Suites in Tallahassee Florida The team c...
Global Hotel Investment on the Rise With Nearly 80% of Investors Revealing Plans to Buy in 2022
JLL | September 22, 2022
CHICAGO, September 22, 2022 – JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group has released their latest Global Hotel Investor Sentiment Survey, which reveals nearly 80% of investors plan to be net buyers in 2022. JLL surveyed global hotel investors to understand their evolving investment appetite, expectations around the industry’s recovery timeline and industry outlook. Hotel investors expressed a strengthened appetite as fundamentals continue to recover with 20% of investors indicating they will deploy between $501 million to $1 billion+ worth of capital into the hospitality sector, up from 7% of investors in 2021 and 16% in 2020. This is ...
The Mogharebi Group Brokers Sale of 44-Key Hotel Next to Disneyland in Anaheim, CA
The Mogharebi Group | September 22, 2022
COSTA MESA, CA (September 22, 2022) — The Mogharebi Group (TMG), on behalf of a local investor, has brokered the $8.6 million sale of a 44-key Days Inn by Wyndham hotel adjacent to Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. The hotel is located at 1030 W. Ball Road at the northwest corner of Disneyland Drive, walking distance to the famed theme park and Downtown Disney. Days Inn by Wyndham features spacious guest rooms, including king-bed, two-queen bed, and three-queen bed configurations. The guest amenities include free breakfast and Wi-Fi, onsite parking, a 24-hour reception desk, and coin-operated laundry rooms. Having not been renovated since it was...
GHG Partner David Sudeck Recognized as a Real Estate/Construction Law Trailblazer by National Law Journal
Jim Butler | September 12, 2022
By Jim Butler Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to announce that Real Estate Partner David Sudeck has been recognized in the National Law Journal’s 2022 list of Real Estate/Construction Law Trailblazers. This list honors legal professionals who have made significant marks on the practice, policy and technological advancements in their sector. “David’s legal expertise and excellent client service have been essential to the success of the Global Hospitality Group and to the Firm as a whole,” said Jim Butler. “We are pleased that he has received this recognition as a Trailblazer.” Sudeck i...
Paramount Lodging Advisors Successfully Transacts in Lubbock TX With the Sale of the La Quinta Inn & Suites
Paramount Lodging Advisors | August 29, 2022
Lubbock, TX - Paramount Lodging Advisors (PLA) has successfully executed the sale of the La Quinta Inn & Suites located in in the northwest submarket of Lubbock, TX. Sr. Managing Director Kami Burnette and Sr. Associate Mason McDavid represented the owner in the transaction. The 109-room hotel, built in 2009, was renovated in 2019 and was marketed as a turn-key operation. The hotel was purchased by Diya Lubbock Hotels LLC, based in Mesquite, TX. “The Lubbock hotel market is attractive based on the strength of the core demand generated by Texas Tech University, Covenant Health and project-based business from alternative energy ...
Q1 2022 Major U.S. Hotel Sales Survey
Daniel Lesser | April 20, 2022
By Daniel Lesser As the world was emerging from a once in century pandemic, global and national events during the first three months of 2022 have resulted in a transformative quarter unlike any for nearly 80 years. During the nuclear superpower age, the notion of an unprovoked brutal attack and invasion of a sovereign state was the stuff of fiction. "Never again" is a phrase associated with the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Unfortunately, the phrase is merely two words as history is currently repeating itself in Eastern Europe. As of the end of Q1 2022, skyrocketing energy and food costs have greatly ...
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