Chantal Wu joined the CoStar Group as senior director of hospitality market analytics covering the Southeast U.S. region. Before joining CoStar, Wu was vice president of investments and development at Auro Hotels, where she was responsible for sourci...
Chantal Wu joined the CoStar Group as senior director of hospitality market analytics covering the Southeast U.S. region. Before joining CoStar, Wu was vice president of investments and development at Auro Hotels, where she was responsible for sourcing and underwriting acquisition targets, managing ground-up developments, analyzing the existing portfolio to identify conversion, disposition and value enhancement opportunities, and asset managing non-hospitality assets the company owned.
Prior to Auro Hotels, Wu worked for Davidson Hospitality Group as director of operations strategy, reporting and analytics. Before joining Davidson, Wu was part of the Investment Analysis team at IHG, where she underwrote upscale-and-above brands across the Americas region, specializing in the top 25 U.S. markets and Latin America. She also spent time as a feasibility consultant with PKF Consulting, now a part of CBRE.
Wu graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Master of Management in Hospitality from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. Originally from Beijing, China, Wu currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and their 7-year-old daughter. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, snowboarding and spending time with family.
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Typically, airport passenger statistics are a reliable indicator of nearby airport hotel performance. Last year, air passenger volume declined nationwide as trade policies, travel restrictions and ...
In 2025, the Southeast region recorded a 2.1% occupancy drop and a 0.2% gain in average daily rate, or ADR. The resulting revenue per available room, or RevPAR, decreased by 1.9%. The declining ...
The Southeast region recorded a slight drop in hotel sales volume last year, as investors found smaller hotels and opportunistic acquisitions attractive. In 2025, approximately 680 hotel sales took ...
Hospitality real estate fund managers are grappling with uninspiring capital deployment from 2025. Ongoing tariff uncertainty and softness in transient demand contributed to the inactivity of these ...
Mixed-use developments are not a novel concept in commercial real estate. They often combine office, residential, retail, entertainment and hospitality within a single structure, several buildings in ...
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After dipping to a low in the third quarter of 2025, hotel openings in the Southeast ramped up again to close out the year. Between October and December, the region welcomed 29 new hotels totaling ...
The hotel CMBS market in the Southeast experienced shifts in 2025. The overall origination balance decreased compared to a year ago, although the number of loans originated increased year over year. ...
The national hotel development pipeline has remained muted in recent years. However, hotel construction activity in Florida shows no signs of stopping.
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Business travel is a primary demand source for hotels in Atlanta. The market is home to 18 Fortune 500 corporations, 37 Fortune 1000 companies and many regional headquarters. Several submarkets that ...
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This year, the Southeast region was relatively unscathed from an uneventful Atlantic hurricane season. Although hotel markets such as Tampa Bay and Charlotte benefited from the impact of hurricanes ...
The phrase “there’s always something going on” does not apply to every city around the country. But for Miami, it is true most of the time. As the epicenter of South Florida, the city hosts a variety ...
Hotels have long focused on creating memorable experiences, but another player is quietly winning on perceived value: cruise travel. Post-pandemic, cruising has surged as travelers seek affordability ...
One year after Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida, all 13 hurricane-affected markets in the Southeast U.S. continued to experience year-over-year revenue growth. Six ...