Services

Consulting & Valuation

Our services include development consulting and project management, impact studies, management contract analysis and negotiation, franchise evaluation, operator selection, lease reviews and negotiations, litigation support and acquisition due diligence.

We are the leading industry experts retained by almost every major hotel owner, lender and operator to assist with their valuation needs.

Investment Banking

HVS Investment Banking is involved in essentially three business activities:

• Financing arrangements for debt and equity for existing and proposed hotels, resorts and golf properties
• Investment sales, both buy-side and sell-side activities for existing hotels, resorts and golf and timeshare
• Capital Advisory which involves assistance in public/private hotel projects, plus assistance in workout and delinquent hospitality debt situations

Asset Management & Strategic Advisory

This division tailors a comprehensive approach that helps each property achieve its full potential in increased profitability, smoother operations and optimal asset value.

Hotel Management

HVS Hotel Management provides independent third party management services to owners of lodging properties. HVS also provides receivership and due diligence services to institutional owners of distressed hotels.

Hotel Parking Consulting

Through the management of clients' hotel parking assets, Hotel Parking Consulting provides an opportunity for hotels to transform traditional cost centers and nominal revenue-generating operations into profit centers by leveraging 15 years of parking management expertise. Hotel Parking Consulting quickly and efficiently streamlines operations, renegotiates favorable parking contracts, implements revenue control processes, and/or operates the parking asset itself on behalf of the hotel. The art of hotel parking is to achieve the foregoing without compromising guest service; Hotel Parking Consulting can help you do just that.

Executive Search

In perhaps no other industry is the impact of personnel as great as lodging, gaming and restaurants. Take advantage of our Executive Search division's impeccable performance record to optimize the economic value of your organization.

Convention, Sports & Entertainment Facilities Consulting

Provides independent and objective economic and financial consulting and advisory services to public agencies and private developers involved in convention, entertainment and sports facilities. The division is dedicated to helping clients implement projects by providing rigorous analysis during the planning process and expert advice on development decisions.

Food & Beverage Services

By combining hands-on observation and experience, masterful knowledge of the hospitality industry, and unparalleled access to information, HVS brings proven expertise to the conception, development, management and appraisal of successful ventures in the restaurant industry.

Gaming Services

HVS Gaming Services professionals have worked in every major gaming market in the U.S.A. on projects ranging from multi-use riverboat complexes to Las Vegas mega-resorts. Services include real estate appraisal, feasibility studies, market studies, site evaluations, land evaluations, the analysis of gaming supply and demand and economic conditions.

Interior Design

The service provides superior interior design services for the hospitality industry. It is comprised of hospitality designers with extensive experience not only in interior design, but in hotel real estate appraisal, marketing, operations, and finance.

Sales & Marketing Services

HVS Sales & Marketing Services provides sales, marketing, public relations and operational strategies for the hospitality industry, in order to boost occupancies and provide more effective rate/yield management. Specialties include marketing and public relations programs for hotels, restaurants and destinations. Services provided are: operational reviews, with respect to marketing; marketing plan development; coordination with a hotel’s flag; sales action steps development; pre-opening marketing activities; sales training and direction; publicity and promotions; and web marketing.

Shared Ownership Services

This division offers strategic counsel to companies looking to enter the vacation ownership industry. The core timeshare and fractional ownership consulting services provided include market analysis, feasibility studies, cash flow modeling and financial projections, appraisals/valuations, industry research and surveys, business strategy for new entrants, litigation support, and acquisition due diligence.

Additional timeshare and fractional ownership services are provided through the Resort Development Services (RDS) unit of the Timeshare Division. RDS Services include project acquisition services, assistance in securing branding and marketing alliances, help with partnering needs related to new projects, arranging equity partners and financing sources, monthly retainer based development coordination services, and on-going asset management services for new entrants during the sell-out process.

Golf Services

HVS Golf Services provides a host of services for developers, golf courses, clubs, municipalities and associated communities with valuation, feasibility and an array of consulting services. HVS Golf Services provides comprehensive analysis of the golf facility or country club, the fundamentals of the larger development and the interrelationship between the golf amenity and the planned community.