MIAMI-Atlanta-based hotel investment advisory services firmHunter Realty has set up shop in Miami. Stephen Taylor, the firm’snewly-minted vice president, will lead the Miami office intoopportunities in Florida and the Caribbean.

“We believe Florida and especially Miami, Orlando and Tampa willbe hotbeds of activity over the next 24 to 36 months as the economyrecovers and the debt issues facing hundreds of hotel ownersfinally get resolved,” says Teague Hunter, president of HunterRealty. Teague says Taylor’s 30-plus years of hotel real estateexperience as a broker, operator, developer and consultant makeshim a good fit to head the Miami expansion.

Taylor comes to Hunter from HTL Hospitality Advisors, where hewas managing director of the firm’s Miami brokerage and consultingbusiness. Before entering the hotel brokerage business, Taylor wasfounding partner, president, and CEO of Brookshire Hotels, anationwide full-service hotel management and development companywith a portfolio of about 30 hotels.