Hotel deals struck during the pandemic will likely outperform earlier transactions based on historical data from the Great Recession.

Private funds with exposure to hotel properties formed in the years following the Global Financial Crisis yielded higher net IRRs than previous vintage years due to lower valuations, Jared Bochner writes in a Preqin blog post

So far, transactions in the hotel sector have been few and far between due to many factors, including, not surprisingly, the effects of the pandemic as well as a relative lack of distress in the market. As in other CRE sectors, lenders have been working with borrowers on forbearance. While the number of delinquent hotel loans is high, the damage could have been worse. 

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Leslie Shaver

Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.