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.