The LIIC Top 10: Annual Survey of Lodging Investment Trends and Challenges

Strong hotel property value growth predicted, fueled by increasingly favorable hotel debt -- despite overall sluggish economic growth, sequestration, unionization and Obamacare. According to the LIIC 2013 Survey, this is what the hotel industry has in store in 2013.

The Lodging Industry Investment Council (LIIC) is the hotel industry "think tank" whose membership includes the hospitality industry's most influential investors, lenders, corporate real estate executives, REITs, public hotel companies, brokers and significant lodging equity sources. More than 80% of surveyed LIIC members have purchased a hotel in the last 12 months. Together, the members of LIIC represent ownership, control or disposition of well over $20 billion of lodging real estate.

Along with Mike Cahill of Hospitality Real Estate Counselors (HREC) and Sean Hennessey of the Lodging Investment Advisors, I am privileged to be one of the co-chairs of the Lodging Industry Investment Council (LIIC).

LIIC Annual "Top Ten" Survey
LIIC's annual survey of lodging investment trends and challenges is a highly-regarded profile of investment sentiment and attitudes for the hotel industry for the next 12 months.

The 2013 LIIC Survey was compiled by Mike Cahill and he presented the results to more than 300 attendees of the 23rd annual Meet the Money® conference in Los Angeles today. What do LIIC members think about hotel property values, transaction volume, access to capital, and hotel development?

The complete presentation of the LIIC Top Ten is available on . Click on "RESOURCE CENTER" and then "Hotel Industry Presentations."

By the way, all the other presentations from our 23rd annual hotel conference are also available at on that same page.

We appreciate all LIIC members for their continued contribution to leadership in our industry ().

Contact LIIC's co-chairmen at:

• Jim Butler, Chairman, JMBM's Global Hospitality Group®: [email protected]
• Mike Cahill, CEO & Founder, HREC: [email protected]
• Sean Hennessey, CEO, Lodging Investment Advisors: [email protected]

This is Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com and hotel lawyer, signing off. We've done more than $60 billion of hotel transactions and have developed innovative solutions to help investors be successful in bidding for hotel acquisitions, and helping investors and lenders to unlock value from troubled hotel transactions. Who's your hotel lawyer?

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