August 5, 2021
Despite uncertainties surrounding corporate travel and the return to the office, as well as the Delta variant and the potential for mask mandates and other state or federal restrictions, the Boston & Cambridge lodging market continues to climb a wall of worry. Driven primarily by domestic leisure travel, the market has experienced strong month-over-month gains […]
April 28, 2021
Move Collectively Broadens Service Offerings to Provide Additional Asset Management and Advisory Services to Current and Future Clients BOSTON, April 28, 2021—Officials of CHMWarnick, the leading hotel asset management and owner advisory services company, and Pinnacle Advisory Group, a premier national hospitality consulting firm and women-owned business, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance. […]
April 27, 2021
Tech companies were among the first employers to cancel meetings and halt travel as news of COVID-19 emerged from China. After first restricting international travel in February, most companies had restricted nonessential domestic travel by early March. Amazon and Facebook were conducting job interviews by video calls, and Twitter issued work-from-home orders well before counties […]
January 20, 2021
With large increases to its rooms supply and a heavy reliance on corporate and group travel, the Boston market faces an uphill battle in its recovery. The travel and leisure industry has finally wrapped up 2020; a year like no other, with hotels enduring devastating declines to demand and revenue, job losses across the industry, […]
December 14, 2020
Article featured in Banker & Tradesman, November 30, 2020 The Boston & Cambridge lodging has ranked as one of the best performing markets in the country the last few years. Market occupancy was 82.3% in 2019, the seventh consecutive year above 80%. However, as a result of the ongoing pandemic and its impact to the […]
November 17, 2020
As the United States faces a growing number of COVID-19 cases, surpassing 10 million in early November, lodging markets across the country continue to face unprecedented declines in demand. Through October, the Boston & Cambridge lodging market has experienced some of the steepest declines in demand and revenue across the country’s top-25 markets according to […]
November 4, 2020
The importance of considering Total Rooms Inventory (TRI) in measuring Lodging Industry performance. Through the pandemic, hotel Occupancy rates have hit historic lows throughout the country. We have constantly been asked “how bad is it?” Reports early in the pandemic, while awful, seemed to actually understate the catastrophic effect of the pandemic on the hospitality […]
October 7, 2020
The Greater Boston market has experienced a 71% decline in room revenue through August when compared to the same time last year, the largest decline of all top-25 markets according to STR. Hotels in Boston and Cambridge, as well as those in the Greater Boston area, began to feel the effects of the ongoing pandemic […]
July 28, 2020
During the early stages of the ongoing pandemic, the Boston & Cambridge lodging market was one of the most heavily hit markets in the country. As part of the state’s phased reopening process, hotels were allowed to reopen in June, however, it became clear that most hotels would take a more cautious approach to restarting […]
July 16, 2020
In the case of property tax assessments in Florida, probably somewhat less than the county property appraiser assumes. A recent court decision invalidated the method used by many county property tax appraisers in Florida to develop “just” values for hotels. The Background Walt Disney Parks and Resorts successfully argued that the Orange County Property Appraiser […]
