Michael Stathokostopoulos is a Senior Director of Hospitality Analytics at CoStar Group, focused on several major U.S. hotel markets. Stathokostopoulos has over 15 years of experience in real estate transaction advisory and valuation for financial re...
Michael Stathokostopoulos is a Senior Director of Hospitality Analytics at CoStar Group, focused on several major U.S. hotel markets. Stathokostopoulos has over 15 years of experience in real estate transaction advisory and valuation for financial reporting across all major asset types, with a particular focus on hotels, advising clients throughout the lifecycle of their real estate investments.
Prior to Costar, Stathokostopoulos spent 10 years at Ernst & Young within the strategy and transactions group, working on real estate merger and acquisition deals, including financial and commercial due diligence, feasibility studies, portfolio and asset optimization, and value creation projects.
He has taught hospitality finance courses for Cornell University’s online Hotel Real Estate Investments and Asset Management certificate. Stathokostopoulos started his career with Hospitality Valuation Services (HVS), based in New York, where he completed over $6 billion of hotel appraisals, including numerous feasibility studies. He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s in hospitality management from Cornell University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Hotel investment activity across the Pacific Northwest recorded a 16% decline during the first half of 2026 compared with the first half of 2025. A total of 47 hotel transactions closed through June, ...
Hotel performance across the Pacific Northwest remained softer than neighboring western regions during the first half of the year, although nearly every market improved as the year progressed.
Colorado hotel transaction volume fell to about $452 million in the first half of 2026 from roughly $724 million a year earlier, as large portfolio and institutional deals were largely absent from ...
California's hotel investment market maintained its momentum through midyear, with buyers gravitating toward high-profile coastal destinations and branded properties with stable cash flows.
Hotel performance across the Mountain West reflected two distinct stories during the first half of the year: Diversified metropolitan areas continued to outperform, while several resort-oriented ...
Pacific hotel markets remained among the nation's strongest performers during the first half of the year, supported by a combination of convention activity and major events.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup delivered broad-based gains across San Francisco's hotel market, with every major chain scale benefiting from higher occupancy and room rates around key matches.
Seattle's hotel market performed more unevenly during the World Cup than other U.S. host cities, with results varying considerably by matchup and chain scale, that is, specific tiers based on their ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup provided a significant boost to the Los Angeles hotel market, with the city’s role as host to two U.S. group-stage matches helping generate some of the soccer tournament’s ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup delivered a substantial boost to the San Francisco hotel market, but the tournament was not the only catalyst behind the city’s exceptional performance.
The Los Angeles hotel market exhibited a remarkably stable day-of-week performance pattern throughout 2025, with Friday and Saturday nights driving occupancy and revenue.
A year of hotel performance data shows Las Vegas balancing strong weekend leisure demand with convention-driven midweek business, creating one of the industry’s more resilient revenue models.
The San Francisco hotel market exhibited one of the clearest weekday-driven performance profiles among major U.S. cities during 2025. Unlike leisure-oriented destinations where Fridays and Saturdays ...
A comparison of day-of-week hotel performance in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco across full-year 2025 highlights how three major hotel markets can generate revenue through fundamentally ...
Las Vegas hotels experienced one of the most dramatic pricing expansions in the U.S. lodging industry over the past two decades, with average daily rate growth overwhelmingly driving the market’s ...
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy, or C-PACE, financing has become one of the most discussed tools in hotel finance, not because owners suddenly became more sustainability focused, but ...
The hotel industry is reaching a turning point in how it uses artificial intelligence, a shift highlighted at the Northwest Hotel Investment Forum’s spring meeting in the Seattle area, where AI was ...