This week’s column examines a New York office tower said to be facing a slowdown in leasing, a lender that’s taken on risk by buying hotel-backed bonds and Ashford Hospitality Trust’s extension of a $580 million loan. Read the entire piece by clicking “read more” below.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The creative process for designing a hotel and the spaces inside draws on a wide variety of factors to balance the wants and needs of both guests and hoteliers.
Even amid a challenged transactions market, Ramel Lee secured the initial capital for his fund's first acquisition and raised the funding before even deciding on the hotel property he would acquire.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Hotel leisure demand is full of wild swings, none more so than during major events that lead to a lot of hotel bookings and busy weekends for hoteliers.
According to the Ramify SCPI Index (RSCPI)*, the open-ended SCPI market showed a clear recovery in Q2 2025 after a Q1 marked by a sharp correction. The overall performance of open-ended SCPIs reached +1.11%, the best Q2 performance since the creation of the RSCPI (Q2 2023: -1.95%; Q2 2024: +0.87%).
Hotel real estate investment firm NewcrestImage is adding to its portfolio of upscale full-service hotels with the purchase of the NYLO Dallas Plano hotel in North Texas.
After a strong start to the year, lifted by the presidential inauguration in January, hotel performance in the Washington, D.C., market decelerated through June. However, buoyed by the strong performance of submarkets in Northern Virginia, growth in revenue per average room, or RevPAR, in the overall D.C. market remained positive through the first half of the year.
Australian publicly listed conglomerate EVT Limited will acquire Pro-invest Group’s hotel-management division, Pro-invest Hotels, which operates approximately 3,200 rooms in 15 hotels under international brand flags in Australia and New Zealand.
It’s a tough time for hotel developers. New projects are sidelined by elevated construction costs, scarce financing and painful entitlement timelines. Stabilized asset purchases aren’t faring much better as rising cap rates and expensive debt are breaking underwriting. These market conditions have turned the spotlight on conversions, which, ostensibly, require less construction, less financing and less work overall.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The demands on hotel revenue managers have grown even over the past five years, with guest behavior changing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and technology such as artificial intelligence altering the job in fundamental ways.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Over the past 12 months, U.S. hotels have been hampered by a triple whammy of negative consumer confidence, the effect of natural disasters and hesitancy from guests to book stays due to uncertainty.
Lender AllianceBernstein has taken possession of the Campus at Horton project that failed to sell at auction after developer Stockdale Capital Partners fell behind on loan payments for its $550 million redevelopment of the former Westfield mall in downtown San Diego.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Guests are increasingly craving unique experiences out of their hotel stays, whether that comes in the form of a one-in-a-kind property or offerings that are specific to that hotel.
Stronger demand improvements and limited supply pressures have enabled hoteliers in mostly rural domestic-led holiday destinations to drive revenue per available room growth, according to CoStar data.
