On Wednesday 19 March 2025 we will be presenting our 23^rd webinar with our friends at Bird & Bird (lawyers), AlixPartners (restructuring specialists) and EP Business in Hospitality.

Against a backdrop of increasing political uncertainty and continued macro-economic challenges, with persistent inflation and financing costs that are staying higher for longer than many expected, the task of assessing the value of a hotel remains complex. A more helpful development in this area has been the return of hotel transactions in 2024 that help to provide more market-based data points to feed into any valuation assessment. 

Our topic for this webinar will therefore focus on Valuation Trends in the European Hotel Market. We will start with a presentation from Sophie Perret (managing director, HVS) on the latest trends in European hotel valuations with data and insight drawn from HVS’s latest annual European Hotel Valuation Index report. 

We will then bring together a panel of industry experts to provide perspectives on this from the point of view of investors, brands, lenders and advisors, to be moderated by Karen Friebe, leader of Bird & Bird's international Hotels, Hospitality and Leisure team. Our panel will comprise:

• Kash Gohil - Amante Capital
• Bettina Graeff-Parker - Aareal Bank
• David Kellett - Invesco
• Graeme Smith - AlixPartners
• Paul Thomas - Marriott International

So please join us on 19 March for what we promise will be an informative and enlightening webinar.