Services

Consulting & Valuation

As an owner, you need appraisals, market and feasibility studies for your single assets or portfolios. We are the leading industry experts retained by almost every major hotel owner, lender and operator to assist with valuation requirements. We also provide reports based on the unique potential of your hotel and timely data from your specific market to establish accurate value.

Executive Search

Amidst ever-shifting market dynamics, you need the right team by your side. We can fill the top positions that you require. We are the premier executive search and human resource consulting firm specializing in the hotel, gaming and restaurant/retail industries. We also provide reports on CEO performance metrics and executive compensation levels to help you gauge the competitive level of your top staff and salaries.

Investment Banking

(HVS Capital Corp and HVS Hodges Ward Elliott)
We serve you as a one-stop shop for all your investment banking needs including financing, investment sales and capital advisory. We provide assistance in public/private hotel projects and with workout and delinquent hospitality debt situations, and have assisted foreign and domestic governmental entities and private investors structure some of the world's largest public-private hotel ventures.

Asset Management & Strategic Advisory

You want your property to achieve full potential with increased profitability, smoother operations and optimal asset value. In this increasingly competitive environment with rapidly changing markets, our comprehensive approach and strategic business planning and conclusions are backed up with the methodical research and analysis that you require.

Hotel Management

If you need full-service third party management assistance, we can provide the best possible service in all areas of hotel real estate and management to maximize your cash flow and return on investment. We bring the unique perspective of an owner/operator with extensive in-depth consulting experience, and can also provide receivership and due diligence services if you are an institutional owner of a distressed hotel.

Parking

As an owner, you have a unique opportunity to transform traditional cost centers and nominal revenue-generating operations into profit centers. We can quickly and efficiently maximize the value and full potential of hospitality parking assets by streamlining operations, renegotiating favorable parking contracts, implementing revenue control processes, and operating the parking asset itself on your behalf.

Convention, Sports & Entertainment Facilities Consulting

In this increasingly competitive environment, your community may still seek development of convention centers, sports facilities and performing arts venues to stimulate their local economies and improve life for their citizens. If so, we can help you meet the challenges of successful planning and implementation with trusted, impartial advice resulting from our years of studying and guiding convention center, sports and entertainment facility planning.

Gaming

If you are a casino owner, potential owner, lender or investor, we can help you act and plan with confidence to streamline operations and improve your bottom line. With expertise in the ever-growing and challenging gaming industry, our projects range from full-service destination casino and Las-Vegas-style mega resorts to multi-use riverboat complexes, racetracks and racinos.

Design

(HVS Design)
We can help you utilize design for functionality and as an important element for attracting and retaining business. If you have a new construction, conversion, renovation, historic hotel, restaurant or other hospitality project, we can assist you with our strong understanding of the industry and valuation-based interior solutions. We are ranked among Hotel Design's Top Hospitality Design Firms and Interior Design magazine's Top 75 Hospitality Giants.

Shared Ownership

Vacation ownership, residence clubs, condo hotel and mixed-use resort developments are part of an industry that has grown from a hospitality afterthought to an important and sought-after market. We can serve you with important strategic advice and project management services. In addition, our exciting sustainable operations services will help you quantify and minimize the negative impacts of hospitality projects and realize cost savings and efficiencies.

Golf

The golf course is an economic driver, playing a critical role in the positioning and success of any project. We can arm you with the foundation you need for sound and profitable decisions to assure long term success and value generation. We provide multifaceted golf and resort community valuation, feasibility and consulting capabilities for golf-related projects around the world.

Sustainability

We can help you save thousands in lost utility costs and reduce your environmental footprint. With a full spectrum of environmental sustainability solutions specifically tailored to the hospitality industry, we take pride in our reputation as Sustainable Hospitality Pioneers with consulting solutions that gain immediate credibility among industry stakeholders including lenders, investors, owners, operators, guests, staff and municipalities.

Risk Management

HVS Risk Management provides the hospitality industry with risk management and insurance consulting. We have partnered with the premier hospitality insurance agency specializing in assisting hotel groups lower their insurance premiums and overall cost of risk. With HVS Risk Management, you will receive exceptional service from "hotel people" focused on the insurance industry. We combine hotel expertise with exceptional access to a wide range of insurance coverage. Because of our longstanding experience in the hospitality industry, we understand the complexity of hotels and the necessity for quality insurance coverage.

Property Tax

As an owner, asset manager, or hotel manager, it is your objective to maximize profitability. Understanding property taxes can be a daunting task when you consider several properties over multiple municipalities. As a leader in the hospitality industry, HVS has a stronghold on hotel valuation, and are viewed as the expert by many assessors. We understand the intricacies of real property value versus intangible value, thereby arriving at the true value of the land and building. Allow us to review your taxes and represent your property tax needs.

Spa & Leisure

Through a collaboration with WTS International, HVS Spa & Leisure Services will provide feasibility studies, design consulting, pre-opening services and management for spas, fitness centers and leisure facilities at hotels, resorts, residential projects and real estate developments worldwide. HVS Spa and Leisure Services will offer exceptional customer service while maximizing revenue and net operating profit for clients.