Finance

H1 2025 European Hotel Transactions

Transaction activity remained high in the first half of 2025, marginally shy of the 2024 levels over the same period but, at €10.4 billion, above the average for the last decade. Single-asset deals were at the forefront of the investment landscape i...

Maxime Gauthier

Maxime Gauthier

Consulting and Valuation Analyst, HVS London

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Real Estate & Investment

HVS

London Hotel Market Spotlight YE May 2025

The sample of branded full-service hotels in London recorded a healthy increase in profit during the 12-month period ending in May 2025, relative to the same time last year. GOP per available room (GOP PAR) rose by 4.7%, driven by a 2.4% decrease in...

Ed Fitch

Head of Hospitality, UK&I

Cushman & Wakefield

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Markets & Performance

Cushman & Wakefield

UK Hotels Face a New Challenge: Rising Wages, Squeezed Margins

The UK government’s April 2025 increase in the National Living Wage—from £11.44 to £12.21 per hour—isn’t just a regulatory update. It’s a fundamental shift in the economics of hospitality. Labour costs are rising sharply, and profitability is under ...

Matthew Redfern

Matthew Redfern

Senior Data Analyst at HotStats

HotStats Limited

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Markets & Performance

HotStats Limited

Irish Hotel Market – Calm Before the Storm?

It’s been a buoyant cycle for hotels in Ireland: long, sustained periods of rising demand, and either constrained supply, or new supply that has been easily absorbed. Transactions have also been strong on the back of these favorable dynamics.

Zachary Schwartz

Zachary Schwartz

Founder of Catamount Holdings

Cayuga Hospitality Consultants

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Cayuga Hospitality Consultants

Measuring CSAT: Why it matters and how to manage and improve it

In the hospitality industry, KPIs and metrics play a crucial role in evaluating and improving business performance. Metrics like occupancy rates, Online review scores, ADR (Average Daily Rate), and RevPAR (Revenue per Available Room) are essential f...

Björn Östberg

Björn Östberg

CPO & Managing Director

Customer Alliance

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Reputation Management

Customer Alliance

New banking regulations in Switzerland: Help or hindrance?

What could be safer than a Swiss bank? This article takes a deep dive into what Swiss authorities are doing to restore confidence in the country’s banking system. As discussed in a previous article, the Public Liquidity Backstop (PLB) is a measure i...

Giuliano Bianchi

Giuliano Bianchi

Associate Professor at EHL Hospitality Business School

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National & International Policy

EHL Hospitality Business School

New regulations in the Swiss banking sector: Public Liquidity Backstop

On March 16, 2023, the Federal Council of Switzerland declared an emergency order introducing the Public Liquidity Backstop (PLB)1. In doing so, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) granted a CHF 100 billion loan to Credit Suisse (federal default guarantee...

Giuliano Bianchi

Giuliano Bianchi

Associate Professor at EHL Hospitality Business School

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EHL Hospitality Business School

Hotel Market Beat 2024 H1 - Spain

Spanish hotel transactions exceeded €1.6Bn in H1 2024, involving 56 properties and over 8,100 rooms. This is about a 3% increase compared to H1 2023 and 56% above the 5-year average (2019-2023). The Balearics, Barcelona, and Madrid were the most act...

Albert Grau

Partner Co-Head of Hospitality Spain

Cushman & Wakefield

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Real Estate & Investment

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Cushman & Wakefield

2022 European Hotel Transactions

The post-COVID era was expected to have been a story of strong recovery in the hotel investment market. However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which fueled huge increases in energy and food prices, overall inflation and therefore...

Shaffer Patrick

Shaffer Patrick

Analyst at HVS Hodges Ward Elliott, London office

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