CBRE Hotels Research specializes in translating national and local economic conditions into measures of hospitality market and property-level financi
Annual changes in U.S. hotel utility costs and in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), or inflation, have historically proven to be strongly correlated. A
In Part 1 of this series, I highlighted that hotel property investors transact to acquire both real estate and the operating businesses with their va
The recent price surge for many goods and services in the U.S. raises the prospect for an extended period of persistent high inflation. Conventional
In 2020, the average hotel in CBRE’s annual Trends® in the Hotel Industry survey experienced a 108 percent decline in earnings before interest, taxes
On December 31, 2021, the constant maturity, 10-year U.S. Treasury note (the 10-year) stood at 1.52 percent. The 10-year now hovers around 3.0 percen
According to the March 2022 edition of CBRE’s Hotel Horizons® national forecast report, the total revenue for a typical U.S. hotel is not expected to
Hunter Hotel Advisors sponsored their annual hotel investment conference March 22-24, 2022, at the Atlanta Marriott Marques, attended by 1,726 hotel
To analyze recent changes in hotel insurance costs, and the factors that influence those changes, we examined the operating statements of 3,156 U.S.
According to the 2021 edition of CBRE’s Trends® in the Hotel Industry report, total operating revenue for the average hotel in the sample declined by
Hotels Owners Interested in Interest To analyze the impact that declining EBITDA levels had on the ability of hotel owners to pay their interest expe
Based on CBRE’s survey of monthly operating performance, U.S. hotels experienced a 58 percent decline in total hotel revenues from 2019 to 2020. This
Hotel real estate investors need to measure both the absolute and relative financial performance of their properties. A 10% annual return may appear
Although telecommunications costs account for a small percentage of expenses, data during 2015 through 2019 revealed a significant upward trend in te
In 2019, 86% of the hotels that participated in CBRE Hotels Research's annual Trends® in the Hotel Industry survey of property-level operating statem
