DALLAS, TX -- Larkin Hospitality Finance, a national hotel investment firm specializing in financing hotel properties, announced today that it recently closed four separate loans totaling $16.6 million for their clients.

DALLAS, TX -- Feb 24, 2009 -- Larkin Hospitality Finance, a national hotel investment firm specializing in financing hotel properties, announced today that it recently closed four separate loans totaling $16.6 million for their clients.

While the title of this article is a bit of a tongue-twister, its components speak to key and sometimes counterintuitive factors impacting our industry today: Financing challenges, recessionary fears, and the surprisingly robust market fundamentals – both hotel industry and broader economy – that should keep AAHOA’s 9,000-strong membership from sitting on the sidelines during this time of uncerta...

Americans are optimists. The core of the American Dream is the belief that we can overcome any obstacle and accomplish anything through hard work and the right attitude. Many, if not most, hoteliers achieved their success by testing this belief and as a result are often extreme examples of American optimism.

Dallas, TX | The InterContinental Hotels Group annual Americas Investors and Leadership Conference in Dallas this past week offered a potent reminder of the natural optimism shared by hoteliers in general and Holiday Inn owners in particular. The conference focused on the comprehensive $1 billion makeover of the iconic full-service Holiday Inn and limited-service Holiday Inn Express brands. Brand...

DALLAS, TX | Cameron Larkin today announced the launch of hotel investment bank Larkin Hospitality Finance. The new firm will focus exclusively on meeting the debt financing needs of hotel owners and developers.

DALLAS, TX | First American Realty Associates announced that it secured conduit refinancing on the 58-room Country Inn located in Stafford, VA. The 75% leverage, fixed-rate loan carried 30-year amortization. The loan additionally allowed for significant recapture of borrower equity. A well-timed, early rate-lock in the low 6%-area shielded the borrowers from the recent commercial capital market t...

Occasionally the capital markets change so quickly that printed news is already dated when it hits the mailbox. Such was case with a related article I’d written for this month’s edition of Commercial Mortgage Insight.