A Hotel Debt Quagmire - Borrowers with maturing loans have increasingly fewer options
Any optimism for a post-COVID resurgence of hotel lending activity has evaporated as the market stalls in the face of the highest interest rate environment in over a decade. The surging economic uncertainty is undoubtedly impacting the level of angst many hotel owners are feeling at the moment. The magnitude and unpredictability of changing loan underwriting assumptions in the past sixty to ninety days alone have meaningfully increased investment risk.
By Dexter Wood, Senior Managing Director, The Plasencia Group