hotel valuation
HVS Monday Musings: Income Capitalization Approach – The Gold Standard for Valuing Hotels
Anand Rai | August 29, 2022
By Anand Rai According to a recent GlobalData report, 573 deals (including mergers & acquisitions, private equity, and venture financing) were announced in the global travel and tourism (T&T) industry in the first half of 2022, reflecting a 3.1% increase over the same period last year. However, before these deals are concluded, the asset needs to be valued. So, how do we determine a hotel's market value and what exactly is valued under the category of hotels? The main valuation techniques are briefly covered in this article. The hotel’s market value takes into account the value of all of its different components, including th...
Hotel Transactions Up on 2020 Levels With Single Asset Deals Reaching Record Average Room Rates, Reveals HVS Report
HVS | May 3, 2022
Strong recovery for European hotel transactions with deals worth €16.4bn Year sees record average sale price per hotel room for single assets at €260,000 London tops hotel transaction top 5 with Barcelona, Stockholm, Berlin and Madrid 03 May 2022, London: Last year was one of strong recovery for European hotel transactions with €16.4bn-worth of deals, twice that of 2020, according to the latest European Hotel Transactions report from global hotel consultancy HVS and its brokerage and investment services division HVS Hodges Ward Elliott. The report reveals that 322 European hotel transactions took place during 2021 ...
HVS Market Pulse: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lodging Market
HVS | May 2, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on the Philadelphia lodging market. While the area regained a substantial amount of tourism in 2021, Philadelphia’s lodging market has remained depressed for nearly two years given the limited amount of commercial and group demand. Demand was healthy in the years prior to the pandemic, with Philadelphia hotels registering occupancy levels in the high 60s to low 70s from 2011 through 2019. Occupied room nights were generated by a mixture of tourists visiting sites and museums or attending sporting events, group and international travelers attending events at the Pennsylvania Convention Center...
Fitch Maintains 14 US CMBS Single Borrower Hotel Transactions on Negative Watch Due to Pandemic
Fitch Ratings | February 22, 2021
Fitch Ratings - Chicago - 22 Feb 2021: Fitch Ratings has maintained 79 classes from 14 U.S. CMBS single borrower transactions on Rating Watch Negative (RWN). Fitch originally placed the classes on RWN on March 19, 2020. KEY RATING DRIVERS The 14 transactions represent the entire portfolio of Fitch-rated single borrower hotel transactions. The transactions were issued in 2019 (four) and 2018 (10). The majority are secured by an individual hotel property; the underlying properties are located in Florida (six deals), Hawaii (four), Arizona (two) and California (one). There is one transaction secured by a portfolio of La Quinta hotels. Three tr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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