The 448-area Hyatt Regency Austin overlooking Girl Chook Lake has modified palms.
Bethesda, Md.-based mostly Host Hotels & Resorts said it bought the hotel for about $161 million in hard cash. The acquisition came ahead of a prepared foreclosures auction of the home, Host Motels mentioned. Host Lodges is the nation’s premier serious estate financial commitment have confidence in in the lodging sector.
The hotel’s preceding proprietor is shown as Tantallon Austin Lodge LLC by the Travis Central Appraisal District. The appraisal district valued the house at $90.8 million in 2020, down from $96.9 million in 2019.
The lodge field has been among the sectors of the economic climate strike toughest by the coronavirus pandemic. Host Hotel’s buy rate reflects a 20% to 25% price cut relative to pre-COVID-19 pricing dependent on the profits of three equivalent Austin resorts among 2014 and 2019, Host Accommodations stated.
The hotel will retain the Hyatt brand name, with Hyatt continuing to manage the home beneath a lengthy-term agreement, Host Inns claimed.
James Risoleo, president and CEO of Host Motels, reported the acquisition allows Host Lodges to diversify into a current market “with a thriving financial state and a younger and vibrant populace.”
“We are psyched to have executed an off-sector, opportunistic acquisition of a large-excellent resort in one of the nation’s speediest developing cities, which continues to be a best beneficiary of company and people today relocation,” Risoleo stated in a penned assertion. “As journey resumes, we hope the perfectly-located Hyatt Regency Austin to profit from a strong rebound led by Austin’s a number of leisure and enterprise need drivers that are anchored in entire world-renowned new music festivals, sporting functions and blue-chip organizations.”
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The Hyatt sits on nearly six acres at 208 Barton Springs Highway, on the south shore of Girl Bird Lake. The hotel has 45,000 sq. toes of overall meeting place (together with ballrooms of 14,000 and 10,000 square feet), two meals and beverage stores, an outdoor pool and a conditioning centre.
Its rooms ended up renovated in 2015. Meeting place was expanded in 2015, and renovated in 2018.
The acquisition follows two other major Austin hotel income in modern months.
In November, an affiliate of the Axton Group, a privately held expense management business centered in San Francisco, purchased the Renaissance Austin Hotel. Axton paid $70 million for the 492-place resort at 9721 Arboretum Blvd. in Northwest Austin.
In late December, Irvine, Calif.-based Pacific Hospitality Group obtained the 194-area Lodge Granduca in Southwest Austin for an undisclosed price tag.
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Developed by Giorgio Borlenghi and his Houston-based Interfin Businesses LP in a joint enterprise with Austin-based mostly Riverside Resources, the Granduca is on a bluff overlooking Bee Cave Highway (RM 2244) and Loop 360 (Cash of Texas Freeway). The hotel will be rebranded as component of the Meritage Selection of independent accommodations this summer months.
The lodge industry worldwide has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Texas, hotel revenues plunged by additional than $5 billion past calendar year when compared to 2019, an fall of 40.9%, hotel consulting business Source Strategies reported in its hottest report.
In the ultimate quarter of very last year, the Austin-Spherical Rock industry endured a 40% drop in area evenings offered, the greatest percentage drop among the state’s five greatest metro parts, said Source Techniques, which has been tracking resorts in Texas considering that 1988.
Risoleo, however, stated Host Motels is encouraged by Austin’s shrinking lodge construction pipeline in comparison to pre-pandemic amounts, as effectively as by the market’s significantly lessen lodge functioning expenditures compared to other marketplaces.
He mentioned Host Lodges bought the Hyatt Regency prior to its scheduled foreclosures auction “at a really appealing produce based on 2019 effectiveness.”
Host Motels at the moment owns 76 attributes in the United States and 5 attributes internationally totaling about 46,800 rooms.
In Austin, new inns continue on to break ground and open up, or are nearing opening.
The 31-story Austin Marriott Downtown just opened this month, across from the Austin Conference Middle. The lodge has 613 rooms and was owing to open up final summer, but the pandemic postponed those strategies.
This summer months, the Thompson Austin hotel is scheduled to open up its doorways downtown. The hotel — one particular of Hyatt’s latest lifestyle motels — will have 212 visitor rooms and suites, 17 residences and far more than 6,000 sq. toes of meeting and occasion area. It will be in a combined-use tower now less than development at East Fifth and Brazos Street.
