Asset Management and Management Company Selection
PKF Consulting's experience in hotel operations and finance enables us to evaluate marketing strategies, operating expenses, and debt structure to recommend courses of action for increasing both profits and asset value. We assist in hotel chain selection, choosing and monitoring management companies, negotiating management contracts and franchise agreements, and on total portfolio management, including acquisition and disposition of hotel properties.
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Real Estate Appraisals and Business Valuation
Real estate appraisal services represent a significant portion of the professional service we currently perform. With MAI (Member Appraisal Institute) and CRE (Counselor of Real Estate) professionals on staff, we are able to perform appraisals of all types of real estate assets. Our primary clients are banks and other financial institutions, the majority of whom require that their appraisals comply with recognized industry standards and appraisal reporting requirements.
Among the well-known properties we have appraised are the Coco Palms Resort on Kauai, Trump's Castle Casino in Atlantic City, and The Lodge at Pebble Beach in Carmel, California. Full-service hotel appraisals include The Four Seasons in New York City, Le Meridien in Chicago, and the Regal Biltmore in Los Angeles. In addition, we have special expertise in appraising large numbers of properties for a single client. This latter experience is important to clients whose properties may be spread over a wide geographical area.
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Market and Financial Feasibility Studies
Evaluating the market and financial feasibility of a hotel, resort, conference or convention center, golf course, or other hospitality or recreational project prior to making a major financial commitment is perhaps the most important aspect of sound decision-making.
PKF Consulting sets the standard for market and financial feasibility studies. For decades, owners, investors, operators, and lenders have looked to us to provide accurate, insightful analyses, whether their concerns were a new project, the renovation or repositioning of an existing asset, or the purchase of an operating property.
We tailor the scope of our studies to the unique needs of the individual project. Nevertheless, our market and financial feasibility studies incorporate the following research and analysis:
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Area Review
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Site Analysis
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Supply and Demand Analysis
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Position of the Subject Project in its Market
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Estimated Financial Statements
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Project Recommendations
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Legal Issues and Litigation Support
Owners, lenders, and attorneys seek our advice on questions concerning leases, loan covenants, management contracts, business valuations, and the purchase and sale of hospitality and real estate properties. Industry professionals regularly call on us to provide expert witness and litigation support services in every imaginable kind of real estate and hospitality industry matter. In addition, as a member of the American Arbitration Association, we offer professional arbitration services.
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Tourism and Recreational Studies
For nearly forty years, PKF Consulting has counseled and assisted local, state, and both U.S. and foreign government agencies in developing well researched, resource-based, competitive, and financially viable tourism strategies and products.
Tourism assignments have included resources and economic impact analyses, product definition, creation of marketing themes, and the phased development of infrastructure, facilities and attractions, training, and organizational structure.
We are customarily asked to make recommendations on public policy and governmental assistance to the tourism industry, and we are accustomed to helping structure economic incentives for attracting private investment, either domestic or foreign.
Whether it's projecting the economic impact of new visitor attractions in Boston or Los Angeles, a cruise ship destination center in the Caribbean, or a tourism master plan for a Southeast Asian government agency, our long experience and range of services allow us to meet the needs of the tourism industry anywhere visitors may travel.
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