Starwood Capital Group Acquires Portfolio Of Fifty Extended-Stay Hotels
Transaction Transforms InTown Suites into the Largest U.S. Economy Extended-Stay Hotel Owner
Starwood Capital Group, a leading global private investment firm, announced today that it has acquired a portfolio of fifty U.S. economy extended-stay locations from Mount Kellett Capital Management LP and its partners, further building upon its growing InTown Suites brand.
This deal, which was completed by a controlled affiliate of Starwood Capital Group, consists of 6,106 rooms primarily in the Southeast, including desirable markets in North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Georgia and Alabama. With this acquisition, InTown Suites will become the largest owner of economy extended-stay hotels in the United States, with one hundred and eighty nine owned locations and 24,154 suites. Starwood Capital Group purchased InTown Suites in 2013 with the goal of expanding the company's footprint and reinventing how consumers viewed and used extended stay properties.
"The economy extended-stay sector continues to outperform other hospitality sectors, including luxury, and today's transaction marks another important step in our effort to capitalize on this growth opportunity," said Suril Shah, Starwood Capital Group's Acquisitions Managing Director. "Since acquiring InTown, we have seen its valuation increase by more than 30 percent, and we are confident that the upward trajectory will continue."
"We are very focused on maintaining our leadership role by aggressively growing within our sector through acquisition and ground-up development," said Jonathan Pertchik, CEO of InTown Suites. "We expect to apply the same discipline, process and focus that InTown has used in its other acquisitions to continue to outperform competitors."
About Starwood Capital Group
Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm with a core focus on real assets globally. Since its inception in 1991, Starwood Capital Group has raised over $95 billion of capital and currently has ~$130 billion of assets under management. Through a series of comingled opportunity funds and Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (SREIT), a non-listed REIT, the Firm has invested in virtually every category of real estate on a global basis, opportunistically shifting asset classes, geographies and positions in the capital stack as it perceives risk/reward dynamics to be evolving.
Starwood Capital also manages Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), the largest commercial mortgage real estate investment trust in the United States, which has successfully deployed over $117 billion of capital since inception and manages a portfolio of over $31 billion across debt and equity investments. Alongside Starwood Property Trust, Starwood Capital manages over $6 billion in several private debt funds investing across the globe.
Starwood Capital's other affiliates include: Highmark Residential, a property management company; Starwood Digital Ventures, a platform dedicated to the firm's data center investment strategy; Starwood Hotels, a hotel brand management team; Essex Title, a title agent for one or more underwriters in issuing title policies and/or providing support services; and Starwood Oil & Gas, which seeks to capitalize on conventional and unconventional North American assets.