A review of the Branded Residence sector based on the results of the 2010 EHL Strategy Challenge at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne when 150 students set about forecasting the future of Timeshare, Branded Residences and Fractional Ownership.
The eighties brought the world many design disasters, so it’s perhaps ironic that one of the most enduring hotel design trends was born in 1981, in London and San Francisco simultaneously.
HVS London releases the latest edition of its annual review of European hotel value trends. The Hotel Valuation Index shows that on average hotel values across Europe fell 13%, the second year in succession the index has shown a drop in value.
HVS London publishes its latest European Hotel Transaction Report, reflecting 2009 single asset and portfolio hotel transactions. European hotel investment activity fell by 50% to just over €3 billion: a drop of more than 85% on the volumes of 2007!
This market snapshot is the sixth in a series of articles that HVS will be producing every month in conjunction with STR Global. Our analysis for this market is based on a sample of nearly 60,000 rooms.
HVS Hodges Ward Elliott has analyzed the major fundamentals of the hotel industry and current trends in other sectors of commercial real estate to determine how investors can capitalize on the current market.
HVS’s London office released the latest edition of the Hotel Valuation Index (HVI). The survey shows that on average hotel values across Europe, measured in euro, showed the first annual fall in value since 2003.
2008 has proven to be the precursor of a new world order that seems to be emerging from the ongoing financial turmoil
HVS’s London Office has today published its latest European Hotel Transaction Report, reflecting the 2008 single asset and portfolio hotel transactions. The huge reduction in deals compared to previous years is the most dramatic ever recorded by HVS.
Tim Smith, a director with HVS's London office, describes his ten wishes for the UK hotel industry in 2009