Scott Antel

It just does not seem to stop, the brands, developers, products and characters piling into the branded residential space and its perceived promise of an easy 20% to 40% sales premium.

With so many branded residences projects I have been involved with — many with otherwise experienced developers in Dubai and elsewhere — the branded residences element of a project, its structure, ...

Everyone and their branded product it seems is hopping on the bandwagon to develop hospitality-adjacent branded residences.

Branded residential development powers on, with new developments globally, now often occurring beyond the traditional “gateway” cities.

The hotel branded residential segment continues to grow, not just for many renowned hotel brands but extending to luxury fashion and automotive brands that link designs or accessories to the sale of ...

Remember those early pandemic days when politicians and business leaders alike spoke of not wasting the opportunity of a crisis and using the lockdown to build a fairer, more equitable and ...

Various “rules of thumb” and — yes —stereotypes can often be reliably useful in planning business investment behavior, such as with emerging market (EM) countries. But they are by no means a ...

In a recent hotels webinar conference, several U.S.-based panelist predicted the post COVID-19 environment would shift the owner-operator power balance more in favor of operators. The logic was the ...

As we all scramble to adapt to ever-changing business conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, one industry which has been overwhelmingly impacted is the hotel industry.

Whenever I review a hotel manager’s “group services and benefits” program list tucked discretely in the back of a hotel management agreement, I compare it to those hidden fees hospitals charge that ...

Hotel operators’ move to an “asset-light” business model has meant divesting themselves not only of their real estate assets, but also much (if not all) of the business risk associated with operating ...

Purchasers of branded residence properties (typically situated adjacent to a luxury hotel operating under a similar “brand”) often cite the buyer assurances that a branded property brings.

A classic 1960s and onwards advertising strategy was “if you can’t improve the product, put it to music”—an adage which recognized the emotive and recollective attributes of music and rhyming word ...

The recent—and likely continuing—wave of operator consolidations raises a number of legal/contractual issues for the hotel owner-operator relationship, which should be brought up or revisited by ...

The increasingly popular branded residence concept, where a private residence (flat or villa) is marketed and sold typically in conjunction with and adjacent to the similarly branded hotel product ...

Developing and operating hotels in emerging markets throws up several factors you might not prioritize when doing a similar project back home.     In my 20-plus years of, mainly, emerging markets ...