Consulting & Valuation - Chicago - Overview

HVS is the premier consulting firm for hotel appraisals, hospitality advisory services, and tourism consulting. With our location in downtown Chicago, we are conveniently located for our local, national, and international clients.

Consulting & Valuation

Hans Detlefsen, MPP, MAI
+1 (312) 526-3885

HVS performs more hotel appraisal and hotel feasibility study engagements annually than any of our competitors. Our assignments are focused on providing specialized industry data, quantitative analysis, and expert opinions to our clients working in all aspects of the hospitality industry. Our office features specialists in hotel consulting and valuation. We also offer market study and feasibility study specialists for conference center, convention headquarters hotel, mixed-use, tourism attraction, waterpark resort, and transit-oriented development projects.

Contact our office if you need any of the following consulting & valuation services:

Appraisal Economic Impact Study Feasibility Study Financing Strategies Highest and Best Use Analyses IACC-Certification Advisory Services Impact Studies

Litigation Support Market Study Portfolio Valuation Public-Private Partnership Assistance RFQ/RFP Assistance Hotel Tax Revenue Projections Tourism Advisory Strategies

Highlights of how we can benefit you include:

• Financing Hotels and Hospitality Developments - Most lenders and equity investors require substantial due diligence in the form of an MAI appraisal, hotel market study, or hotel feasibility study before making any major investment decisions. HVS is the highly-regarded industry leader in providing independent, objective analyses for financing purposes.
   
• Strategic Planning - The world’s most successful hotel companies, owners, and developers retain HVS to help inform their most critical strategic decisions about facility planning, site selection, financing options, brand strategies, master-planning, and business growth strategies.
   
• Highest and best use advisory services for troubled assets. When hotel owners default on loans or when hotels perform significantly worse than anticipated, lenders and equity investors may need to consider drastic changes. We are experts at applying the appraisal concepts of "Highest and Best Use" to your hotel or resort property.
   
• Appraisal Review – Through our extensive dealings in hotel valuation and consulting assignments, HVS has developed the most comprehensive databases in the world pertaining to hospitality valuation parameters and metrics. If you are seeking a review appraiser for a hotel, motel, resort, or conference center appraisal that you have already completed, then HVS is well-positioned to help you with such review appraisal assignments.
   
• Public-Private Partnerships – Due to specialized backgrounds in public policy and government service, the principals of the HVS Chicago office have a specialty service area that focuses on public sector clients and projects that may involve a public-private partnership. If you represent a government entity seeking to attract hospitality and tourism developments or oversee publicly-owned hotel and convention center assets, HVS can provide you with the industry expertise needed to help achieve your public policy objectives.