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Lodging Conference panelists said hurricanes will escalate prices and there is already an inordinate amount of hotel supply in Houston; also money is cheap, but some are waiting until the political uncertainty passes.

Yet CEM Benchmarking's Alexander Beath sees equity REITs' under-representation in the funds' portfolios as “a significant missed opportunity to generate substantial returns with lower annual investment costs.”

CMBS 1.0 transactions now have a delinquency rate of more than 43%; however, Fitch Ratings says these pre-2009 deals represent an increasingly small slice of the pie.

Although the sector is healthy, investor interest also comes from the problems they now see in other sectors like office and retail.

“The American consumer drives the train of the US economy,” the Moody's Analytics chief economist told a ULI New York audience Wednesday.

The past president of the CCIM Institute is remembered as “a great friend” and “industry icon” by colleagues.

Making young people or those in other careers aware of the value and stability of property management—and providing the proper education to ready them—are key in drawing in future candidates, IREM's Blaire Hoffman tells GlobeSt.com.

While volume has been leaner this year, at about 75% versus 2016, pricing is up and the industry as a whole is somewhat in check in terms of healthy balance sheets and overall supply, according to a recent hotel panel.