The latest Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report for Canada from Lodging Econometrics (LE) reveals, at Q1 2024, there are 314 projects/39,628 rooms in the total pipeline. This new record-high in project counts represents an impressive 11% increase in project counts and a 5% increase in room numbers year-over-year (YOY).
The recent U.S. Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE) reports that, at the close of the first quarter, the top five markets with the largest hotel construction pipelines are led by Dallas with 185 projects/21,882 rooms, slightly below record-highs recorded at the end of Q4 2023. Next is Atlanta, with an all-time high of 153 projects with 17,929 rooms.
As seen in the Q1 2024 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the end of the first quarter, there are 6,065 projects with 702,990 rooms in the pipeline. This new all-time high represents a 9% year-over-year (YOY) increase in projects and a 7% YOY increase in rooms compared to last year.
The volume of U.S. hotel rooms under construction grew year over year for the first time since June 2023, according to CoStar’s March 2024 data.
xpect to see a rise in the price of large hotels and a decline in prices for small hotels next quarter based on our leading indicators of hotel price performance.
The Americas is the only world region that showed a year-over-year increase in pipeline activity at the end of the first quarter, according to March 2024 data from CoStar.
High inflation and interest rate rises had a major impact on the European hotel investment market last year, slowing transaction activity and taking volumes 19% lower than in 2022, the second lowest level of investment in the past decade, according to our HVS European Hotel Transaction Report, published this week in partnership with our European hotel brokerage arm HVS Hodges Ward Elliott.
Marriott International, Hilton, Accor, Radisson Hotel Group and IHG Hotels & Resorts account for 66% of hotels and 71% of rooms in the entire African pipeline
Sustained investor interest and strong operating conditions kept the hotel real estate market active in 2023 with transaction volume of approximately $1.72 billion, pacing slightly ahead of 2022 levels ($1.63 billion). Despite interest rate headwinds, confidence in the hotel asset class was evidenced by a diverse investor pool including new entrants eyeing hotels in a quest for cash flow amidst inflationary pressures.
There are 6,160 projects/1,096,748 rooms currently under construction worldwide at Q423, for a 2% increase by projects YOY.