Publications & Events

The 2025 Boutique Hotel Investment Conference by BLLA brought together hotel owners, investors, developers, advisors, and brands with a focus on independent, boutique, and lifestyle hospitality. This year’s panels and conversation centered around operational efficiency driving owner’s profitability and the renewed appetite for thoughtful, experience-driven hotel and F&B concepts. This article discusses our key takeaways from the conference.

The start of June always brings the industry together in New York City, and we HVS attendees enjoyed our time at the NYU International Hospitality Investment Forum this year. It was great to see many of you there and share our recent experiences in the industry. This article summarizes our main takeaways from the event.

The HVS Hotel Broker Survey is published twice annually and provides an important look at cap rate trends, multipliers, and other key investment metrics for the U.S. hotel industry. HVS reaches out to active hotel brokers across the nation to participate in the survey, and their insights provide you with the pulse of the market as it relates to the following key topics:

• Discount Rates (by hotel product type)
• Going-In Cap Rates (by hotel product type)
• Exit Cap Rates (by hotel product type)
• Current Rooms Revenue Multipliers
• Hotel Exposure Time & Marketing Time (by hotel product type)
• Selling Expenses (by hotel product type)
• Effects of Liquidation
• Insights into Specific Markets (as provided)
• Market Sentiment (cooling, steady, or hot)

Upon ordering the HVS Broker Survey, our team will send the PDF report to the email address provided during the ordering process. If you encounter any problems ordering your report, please contact Lizzette Casarin.

INVITATION TO HOTEL BROKERS

We'd love for you to join our next survey and share your valuable insights. As a thank you, you'll receive a free copy of our comprehensive report, which is packed with the latest market trends and data analysis to help you stay ahead in the industry. You will also receive a thank you gift!

Contact Rod Clough today to participate.  

Our views around the world reflect early optimism for 2025, with the anticipation of stronger transaction activity and modestly improving hotel metrics in most regions.

The hotel feasibility study is not the only option for hotel developers at the start of a project. In this article, we outline the range of solutions we provide for hotel developers, as well as some of the factors we consider as consultants on these projects.

HVS was a proud sponsor of this year’s ALIS conference, where the sentiment was upbeat and optimistic for the year ahead. This article provides our key takeaways from the conference.

As 2023 ends, regional HVS leaders across the globe take a look back at how the global hotel industry fared this year. Overall, operating metrics shined brightly, with revenue growth achieved in most global markets, while investment activity cooled. The investment market is expected to improve in 2024.

This article shares our main takeaways from the highly attended 2023 Lodging Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. It was an incredible gathering for our industry, with great ideas and insights shared, deals done, and friendships strengthened. We look forward to next year’s event!

As HVS associates travel nationwide and experience new hotels, or newly renovated and revitalized properties, we are seeing many owners creating innovative ways to generate revenue. This article lists just a few ways we’ve recently come across.

If we want to avoid the most severe effects of climate change, the world must halve carbon emissions by 2030. At HVS, travel is an essential component of what we do, and carbon emissions are inevitable. But we are highly committed to reducing our carbon footprint.