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CORNELL CENTER FOR HOSPITALITY RESEARCH CORNELL CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE AND FINANCE Cornell Hotel Indices: Second Quarter 2020: Are All Crises the Same? by Crocker H. Liu, Adam D. Nowak, and Robert M. White, Jr. A lthough the Great Recession is useful in offering insights into how hotel performance might fare during a crisis, we show that the current crisis is much worse in terms of risk and the loss of relative wealth. Not surprisingly while the price of hotels in all regions continue to exhibit negative price momentum, hotels in the Middle Atlantic and New England regions were particularly hard hit. Hotels in gateway cities experienced less price decline relative to those in non-gateway cities. Both our moving aver- age trendlines and standardized unexpected price performance metrics indicate a hemorrhaging in the price of both large and small hotels. The cost of debt financing spiked in this quarter with financing available only on refi deals in general. The relative risk premium that lenders require for hotels over and above other com- mercial real estate has also increased on these refi deals. Our tea leaves suggest that both large and small hotels should continue to decline in price. This is report number 35 of the index series. CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 1
ABOUT ABOUT THE AUTHORS THE AUTHORS ABOUT THE AUTHORS Crocker H. Liu is a professor of real estate at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell where he holds the Robert A. Beck Pro- fessor of Crocker H. Liu Hospitality is a professor Financial of real estate Management. He at the Schooltaught previously of Hotel atAdministration at Cornell where New York University’s Sternhe holds the School Robert A. Beck of Business Professorand (1988-2006) of at Arizona Hospitality State Financial University’s Management. W.P. Carey He previously School of taught Business at New York (2006-2009) University’s where Stern he held School the of Business McCord Crocker H. Liu is a professor of real estate at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell where he holds the Robert A. Beck Professor of (1988-2006) Chair. His researchand at Arizona interests State are focused Hospitality on issues Financial Management. 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CORNELL CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE AND FINANCE Cornell Hotel Indices: Second Quarter 2020 Are All Crises the Same? by Crocker H. Liu, Adam D. Nowak, and Robert M. White, Jr. Using the Great Recession as a Comparison Benchmark I t isn’t necessarily déjà vu. As the point of departure for this quarter’s analysis, we first consider the extent to which the Great Recession is useful in offering insights into hotel performance during this pan- demic. In the process, we look at several salient metrics. Exhibit 1 compares the relative wealth effect from investing $100 in a portfolio of hotel REITs during the Great Recession versus holding the same hotel REIT portfolio during the pandemic. exhibit 1 Relative wealth from investing in hotel REITs CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 3
exhibit 2 Volatility associated with a portfolio of hotel REITs Sources: NAREIT, Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance While it isn’t surprising that an investor suffers a loss lower loss of $18 (decline from $100 to $81.94) if this same in wealth over either time period, holding the portfolio portfolio is held for the first 23 weeks of the Great Reces- during the current period results in a wealth decline of sion. Exhibit 2 shows the corresponding volatility associat- $42.75 ($100-$57.25). In contrast, the investor experiences a ed with holding this hotel REIT portfolio over the first 23 About the Cornell Hotel Indices In our inaugural issue of the Cornell Hotel Index series, we introduced three new quarterly metrics to monitor real estate activity in the hotel market. These are a large hotel index (hotel transactions of $10 million or more), a small hotel index (hotels under $10 million), and a repeat sales index (RSI) that tracks actual hotel transactions. These indices are constructed using the CoStar and RCA commercial real estate databases. The large and small hotel indices are similar in nature and construction to the consumer price index (CPI), while the repeat sale hotel index is analogous to the retail concept of same store sales. Using a similar logic process for hotels, we compare the sales and resales of the same hotel over time for that index. All three measures provide a more accurate representation of the current hotel real estate market conditions than does reporting the average transaction prices, because the av- erage-price index doesn’t account for differences in the quality of the hotels, which also is averaged. A more detailed description of these indices is found in the first edition of this series, “Cornell Real Estate Market Indices,” which is available at no charge from the Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance. Starting with our 2018Q1 issue, we in- troduced the Gateway Cities Index as a new metric in our hotel analytics arsenal.1 Starting in 2019, we included 30+ days delinquent data for hotel loans that have been securitized into CMBS from Trepp to offer further insights to our readers on hotel trends. We now have introduced our new Regional Indices to add further granularity to hotel perfor- mance. We also present updates and revisions to our hotel indices along with commentary and supporting evidence from the real estate market, together with an examination of the effects of the corona virus epidemic. 1 Cities that we define as gateway cities include Boston, Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Washington DC. For a general discussion on what constitutes a gateway city, please see Corgel, J.B. (2012), What is a Gateway City?: A Hotel Market Perspective, Center for Real Estate and Finance Reports, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (https://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=crefpubs). The study of Corgel, J. B., Liu, C., & White, R. M. (2015). Determinants of hotel property prices. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 51, 415-439 finds that a significant driver of hotel property prices is whether a hotel is located in a gateway city. The presumption is that hotels (and other real estate) in gateway cities exceed other cities as IRR generators in part due to a generally stronger economic climate as a result of higher barriers to entry, tighter supply, and/or relatively stronger performance in terms of revenue per available room than other top cities that are not gateways. 4 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 3 CMBS delinquency rate (30+ days) for lodging Sources: Trepp, Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance weeks of the two crises. This exhibit shows that the hotel rate (30+ days) for lodging properties from Trepp, shown REIT portfolio is more volatile during the current period in Exhibit 3. For the first three months of the financial (i.e., riskier relative to holding the same portfolio during crisis and pandemic, the delinquency rates were relatively the recession over the same 23-week window). On average, low. However, in the fourth month of the pandemic the the weekly volatility is 3.2 percent for the recession versus delinquency rate for hotels rose from 2.7 percent to 19.1 12.1 percent for the pandemic period. percent, compared to a decline in hotel delinquencies The higher relative risk for hotel properties during from .66 percent to .47 percent during the recession. This the pandemic is also reflected in the CMBS delinquency delinquency rate rose further, from 19.1 percent to 24.3 CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 5
exhibit 4 Corporate credit spread: Baa–Aaa Sources: St Louis Fed, Cornell Center for Real Estate Finance percent, in June 2020, while it remained constant during credit spread for the Covid-19 crisis (1.15%) was greater the fifth month of the recession. The Baa–Aaa corporate than during the recession (.88%). By the eleventh week of credit spread provides further evidence that the market the pandemic, the credit spread stood at 1.91 percent, com- perceives the pandemic as a relatively riskier event (Exhib- pared to a .83 percent during the recession. Since then, the it 4). In good economic times, the credit spread between credit spread has narrowed. Currently, the corporate credit Baa and Aaa firms is small. As the likelihood of poorer spread is 1.2 percent (compared to 1.01 percent during the economic conditions increases, however, the probability recession). With respect to the behavior of the default pre- of default rises more for Baa firms compared to Aaa firms. mium in the real estate market, since new originations on This in turn results in a wider corporate credit spread. For commercial mortgages have ceased except for refinancing, the first six weeks of the pandemic, the corporate credit we look at loan originations in the single-family housing spread was similar to that for the recession over the same market. Subtracting the interest rate on fixed-rate 30-year time window. Starting in the seventh week, the corporate mortgages from the constant maturity yield on the 10-year 6 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 5 Default premium on single family home loans Sources: St Louis Fed, Cornell Center for Real Estate Finance exhibit 6 Comparison of RevPAR for the U.S.: financial crisis versus pandemic Sources: STR, Cornell Center for Real Estate Finance Treasury bond (default premium), Exhibit 5 reveals that the In terms of the relative performance of hotels over default premium during the pandemic is 50 basis points these two crisis periods, Exhibit 6 shows that hotel per- higher on average than the default premium over the same formance was initially similar until about the sixth week, time period during the financial crisis. using RevPAR data from STR. Subsequent to this, hotels on CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 7
exhibit 7 Comparison of RevPAR for the various regions: financial crisis versus the pandemic Sources: STR, Cornell Center for Real Estate Finance average took a deep hit during the pandemic, although RevPAR has continued approximately similar during both periods of crisis. Hotel RevPAR performance to rise since week 11 (April 11, 2020). As of June 27, 2020 (22nd week), RevPAR is is also similar for various census regions, as displayed in Exhibits 7a and 7b. 8 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 7b Comparison of RevPAR for the various regions: financial crisis versus the pandemic (concluded) CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 9
exhibit 8a Time series hotel performance for seven regions (post-recession) Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics Analysis of Indices through Q2, 2020 Atlantic region (i.e., New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) had the worst price performance, with the New England region (hotels in Connecticut, Maine, Hotels in all regions continue to exhibit negative price momentum. For the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) following close most recent quarter (2020Q2), Exhibits 8a and 8b show that hotels in the Middle behind. Mid-Atlantic hotels declined 19.2 percent quarter over quarter, with a 10 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 8b Cross-section hotel performance for seven regions (post-recession) -9.6% QoQ -27.2% YoY -5.3% QoQ -11.3% YoY -19.2% QoQ -3.8% QoQ -25.3% YoY -18.3% YoY +3.8% QoQ -3.9% YoY -3.8% QoQ -9.7% YoY -3.8% QoQ Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics -9.7% YoY 25.3 percent fall year over year, while the price of New England hotels decreased performance (3.8%) for the quarter, all hotels experienced price declines year 9.6 percent quarter over quarter and 27.2 percent year over year. Although hotels over year, continuing the downward trend from the previous period. in the Mountain states were the only region that experienced a positive price CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 11
exhibit 9 Hotel performance for gateway cities versus non-gateway cities Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics Performance of hotels in gateway cities declined less is primarily the result of a rise in the return on invest- those in than non-gateway cities. Exhibit 9 shows that ed capital (ROIC, aka cap rate) from 5.11 percent in the the price performance of hotels in gateway cities fell 2.6 previous quarter (2019Q4) to 8.14 percent in 2020Q1. This percent, compared to the 3.4-percent decline of hotels in increase was relatively greater than the rise in the weight- non-gateway cities quarter over quarter. Year over year, ed average cost of capital (WACC), which rose 100 basis the price of hotels in gateway cities fell 4 percent, and it points, from 6.2 percent to 7.2 percent. Taken from a slight- dropped 12 percent in non-gateway cities, continuing the ly different perspective (no equity financing considered), negative momentum in the prior year-over-year period the cost of debt financing as measured by the mortgage (-8.3% for gateways, and -11.4% for non-gateway cities, in constant rose from 5 percent to 6.8 percent over the same 2020Q1). period. Thus, Exhibit 11 shows that leverage is positive in Hotel investment based on operating performance 2020Q1, the latest quarter for which ACLI data are avail- was positive for the first quarter of 2020. Our economic able. This means that the return that an investor received value added (EVA) indicator in Exhibit 10 turned positive from operations exceeded his or her borrowing cost (cost of at .9 percent in the first quarter of 2020, the latest quarter debt financing). for which data for the calculation of EVA are available. This 12 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 10 Economic value added (EVA) for hotels Sources: ACLI, Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, NAREIT, Federal Reserve exhibit 11 Return on investment capital versus cost of debt financing Sources: ACLI, Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 13
exhibit 12a Transaction volume (observed) and median sale price 14 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 12b Transaction volume (observed) and median sale price (continued) CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 15
exhibit 12c Transaction volume (observed) and median sale price (concluded) Source: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance 16 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 13 Median sale price and number of sales (hotels with sale prices of $10 million or more) Sources: CoStar, Real Capital Analytics The median price of hotels declined on both a large hotels relative to small hotels on a year-over-year quarter-over-quarter and a year-over-year basis, continu- basis reveals that the median price of large hotels declined ing the negative momentum from the prior period. The 15.4 percent compared to a drop of 5.1 percent in the prior median price based on all hotel transactions (both large period on weaker volume (-84%), while the median price hotels and small hotels combined) fell 17 percent from the of smaller hotels experienced a steeper decline (-21.7%) on previous quarter ($3.4M versus $4.1M) on weaker volume weaker volume (-74%). Quarter over quarter, large hotels (81 transactions for 2020Q2 versus 307 transactions for declined less than 1 percent on weaker transaction volume 2020Q1), as reported in Exhibit 12a, 12b, and 12c. Year over (-79%). The median sale price of small hotels fell more year (2020Q1 versus 2020Q2), the median price of hotels sharply (-25%), also on weaker volume (-73%). Exhibit 13 fell 15.3 percent compared to a reduction of 23.2 percent in and Exhibit 14 show these year-over-year trends in the the prior year-over-year period on weaker volume (-75.7% number of transactions for large hotels and small hotels. compared to +5.9% in the prior period). A comparison of CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 17
exhibit 14 Median sale price and number of sales (hotels with sale prices less than $10 million) Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics Our moving average trendlines and our standardized in Exhibit 15, shows that the price of large hotels fell 3 unexpected price (SUP) performance metrics both indi- percent this quarter compared to remaining relatively flat cate a hemorrhaging in the price of both large hotels and at .13 percent last quarter. Small hotels fell 2.4 percent this small hotels. Exhibit 16, which graphs the prices reported quarter, compared to a gentler decline of .83 percent last 18 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 15 Hotel indices through 2020, quarter 2 Source: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 19
exhibit 16 Hedonic hotel indices for large and small hotel transactions Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics exhibit 17 Year over year change in large-hotel index with a moving average trendline Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics 20 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 18 Year over year change in small-hotel index with a moving average trendline Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics quarter. Year over year, Exhibit 17 shows that large hotels Consistent with our analysis, our moving average fell 3.75 percent (2019Q2-2020Q2) compared to a drop of trend lines for large hotels (in Exhibit 19) shows that the 2.8 percent in the prior year-over-year period (2019Q1- price for large hotels has dropped further below both its 2020Q1). Exhibit 18 shows that smaller hotels declined 4.5 short-term and long-term moving average. Large hotels percent year over year (2019Q2-2020Q2), compared to a continue to exhibit negative price momentum, indicating 4.1-percent fall in the prior period (2019Q1-2020Q1). a further softening in prices. The price for small hotels (in CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 21
exhibit 19 Moving average trendline for large hotel index Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics exhibit 20 Moving average trend line for small hotel index Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics 22 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 21 Standardized Unexpected Price (SUP) for large hotel index Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics Exhibit 20) also falls below both its short-term and long- new low. While this is not yet the case for small hotels, term moving average. Exhibit 22 reveals that this scenario might occur in the next Our Standardized Unexpected Price (SUP) metric (in quarter if the price of small hotels continues its negative Exhibit 21) shows that the standardized price for large price trajectory. hotels has reached a statistically significant trough—a CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 23
exhibit 22 Standardized Unexpected Price (SUP) for small hotel index Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics exhibit 23 Moving average trend line for repeat-sale index Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics 24 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 24 Standardized Unexpected Price (SUP) for hotel repeat-sale index (full sample) This graph depicts the interest rate spread between Class A interest rates (as well as B&C rates) on full service hotels over the ten-year Treasury bond which is a leading indicator of hotel loan delinquencies. As this spread widens, lenders demand a higher (lower) com- pensation for making hotel loans. Likewise, a narrower spread means lower compensation. Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics Repeat-sales metrics: prices continue to revert toward 1.03 to .95) this quarter. Exhibit 25 shows that the repeat their mean. Our repeat-sale indicator, which reflects the sale price index fell 1 percent year over year (2019Q2 to price of hotels that have sold more than once, continues 2020Q2), dropping further from its .8-percent decline to revert towards its short-term and long-term moving in the prior period (2019Q1 to 2020Q1). From a quar- average, although it is still higher than both averages, as ter-over-quarter perspective, the index experienced a slight displayed in Exhibit 23. Our SUP performance metric (in decrease (a drop of .2%) in the current period (2020Q1- Exhibit 24) indicates that standardized prices continue to 2020Q2), compared to a steeper decline of 1.7 percent in the revert to the standardized mean of zero with the three-year prior quarter (2019Q4-2020Q1). SUP declining from .70 to .51 (and the 5-year SUP, from CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 25
exhibit 25 Year-over-year change in repeat-sale hotel index, with a moving average trendline Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, CoStar, Real Capital Analytics exhibit 26 Mortgage origination volume versus the loan-to-value ratio for hotels Sources: Mortgage Bankers Association, Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, Cushman Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman 26 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 27 Interest rates on Class A versus Class B and C Hotels Source: Cushman Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman Mortgage financing volume for hotels fell year over that the interest rate that CWSG reported for this quarter year as well as quarter over quarter. Exhibit 26 shows that is based only on loan refinancings, not loan originations, the mortgage origination volume for hotels, as reported so the interest rate this period isn’t necessarily comparable for the first quarter of 2020, fell 42% year over year, con- to the interest rate in the prior quarter. Exhibit 27 shows tinuing the declining trend from the prior period (-25%). that interest rates on Class A and Class B and C hotel deals Loan origination volume for hotels also declined 57 percent increased 40 percent year over year. Quarter over quarter, quarter over quarter. The maximum loan to value (LTV) interest rates rose 66 percent for Class A Hotels and 63 ratio for hotels continues to remain at 70 percent. percent for Class B and C Hotels. The cost of hotel debt financing spiked this quarter The relative risk premium that lenders require for and has also risen sharply on a year-over-year basis. The hotels over other commercial real estate has widened. cost of obtaining hotel debt financing, as reported by Cush- Exhibit 28 shows the spread between the interest rate on man Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman, rose this quarter Class A full-service hotels (as well as B and C properties), for both Class A and Class B and C hotels. We should note compared to the (equally weighted) interest rate on other CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 27
exhibit 28 Interest rate spreads of hotels versus non-hotel commercial real estate Source: Cushman Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman exhibit 29 30-plus-day delinquency rate for hotels Source: Trepp 28 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 30 Standardized 30-plus-day delinquency rate for hotels Source: Trepp (non-hotel) commercial real estate. A positive spread percent in June, exceeding the previous high of 19.3 percent associated with this hotel real-estate premium indicates set in September 2010. This also exceeds the 19.1-percent that lenders demand more compensation to make hotel hotel delinquency rate in May. For comparison purposes, loans than on loans for other major property types, because the delinquency rate for retail real estate in June was 18.1 hotels are perceived to be relatively riskier. The monthly percent. The June delinquency rate for other property types hotel real estate premiums for both higher and lower quali- reported by Trepp is as follows: Industrial, 1.57 percent; ty properties. Class A premiums widened from .34 percent Multifamily, 3.29 percent; and Office, 2.66 percent. Exhibit (34 bps) in the prior quarter to over 1.69 percent (169 bps). 29 displays the historical 30-plus-day delinquency rate for For Class B and C hotels, the spread widened from 39 basis hotels, while Exhibit 30 shows the standardized version of points to 174 basis points. This signals that lenders perceive the 30-plus-day delinquency rate for hotels. Both exhib- the default risk for hotel properties to be relatively high at its reveal that the delinquency rate for hotels with loans the moment. securitized as part of CMBS deals are above their long-term The delinquency rate on hotel loans has reached a average. If the indicator is above or below 1.645 (Z-score) new high. Along that line, the CMBS delinquency rate (30+ then this indicates that the indicator has hit a statistically days) for lodging properties reached a new high of 24.3 significant new high or low. In this case, we see a new low. CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 29
exhibit 31 Cost of equity financing using the capital asset pricing model and hotel REITs Sources: NAREIT, Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance Although the cost of equity financing is now lower, though it increased 258.5 percent on a year-over-year basis. the riskiness of hotels has risen relative to other types of This indicates that the perceived default risk for hotels has commercial real estate. The cost of using equity financing widened relative to other types of commercial real estate for hotels as measured using the capital asset pricing model consistent with our other hotel risk premium indicators. (CAPM) on hotel REIT returns declined in June, as shown Our reading of the tea leaves suggests that the price in Exhibit 31, making it theoretically cheaper to borrow of large hotels and small hotels should to continue to fall from equity markets. The cost of using equity is currently year over year. Exhibit 33 compares the performance of the 7.1 percent for 2020Q2 compared to 7.75 percent in the repeat sales index relative to the NAREIT Lodging/Resort prior quarter, a drop of 65 bps. In terms of total risk (sys- Price Index. Looking ahead, although the NAREIT lodging tematic risk + risk that is unique to hotel REITs), Exhibit 32 index rose 5.5 percent this quarter, it declined 50 percent shows that the total risk of hotel REITs relative to the total year-over-year. risk of equity REITs dipped slightly this quarter (-3.6%), al- 30 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 32 Risk differential between hotel REITs and equity REITs Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, NAREIT exhibit 33 Repeat sales index versus NAREIT lodging/resort price index Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, NAREIT CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 31
exhibit 34 Repeat sales index versus architectural billings index Sources: American Institute of Architects, Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance The architecture billings index (ABI) for commercial metric is one of the few that offers some hope for a quicker and industrial property, shown in Exhibit 34, fell 41 percent recovery, although it is still too early to call it a trend. this quarter (24.8 versus 41.9). Year over year, the ABI de- The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index, clined 53 percent. graphed in Exhibit 36, which we use as a proxy for antic- The National Association of Purchasing Managers ipated consumer demand for leisure travel and a leading (NAPM) index shown in Exhibit 35, which is an indicator indicator of the hedonic index for low-price hotels, fell 18 of anticipated business confidence, rose 7.1 percent this percent this quarter and also fell 19 percent year over year. quarter and increased 1.7 percent year over year. This 32 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
exhibit 35 Business confidence and high-price hotels : Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, Institute for Supply Management (ISM) exhibit 36 Consumer confidence and low-price hotels Sources: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, Conference Board CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 33
exhibit 37 Analysts forecast of hotel REIT earnings Source: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance Wall Street’s view. Starting with this issue, we also look at Wall Street analysts’ earnings estimates for hotel REITs, both in terms on next-quarter earnings per share (EPS) and also annual EPS. Exhibit 37 indicates that ana- Hotel Valuation Model (HOTVAL) lysts are expecting quarterly EPS to decline between 158 Has Been Updated percent (median) and 162 percent (mean) on average, with annual EPS falling 80 percent to 112 percent on average. We have updated our hotel valuation regres- Since analysts’ estimates reflect the earnings guidance from sion model to include the transaction data management, this suggests that we should expect further price declines for the rest of 2020. n used to generate this report. We provide this user friendly hotel valuation model in an Ex- cel spreadsheet entitled HOTVAL Toolkit as a complement to this report which is available for download from our CREF website. 34 The Center for Real Estate and Finance • Cornell University
Appendix SUP: The Standardized Unexpected Price Metric The standardized unexpected price metric (SUP) is similar to the standardized unexpected earnings (SUE) indicator used to determine whether earnings surprises are statistically significant. An earnings surprise occurs when the firm’s reported earnings per share deviates from the street estimate or the analysts’ consensus forecast. To determine whether an earnings surprise is statistically significant, analysts use the following formula: SUEQ = (AQ – mQ)/sQ SUP data and σ calculation for high-price hotels (12 quarters/3 years) Price where SUEQ = quarter Q standardized unexpected earnings, surprise High-price Moving indicator AQ = quarter Q actual earnings per share reported by the firm, Quarter hotels m average σ (SUP) mQ = quarter Q consensus earnings per share forecasted by analysts in quarter Q-1, and sQ = quarter Q standard deviation of earnings estimates. From statistics, the SUEQ is normally distributed with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one (~N(0,1)). This calculation shows an earnings surprise when earnings are statistically significant, when SUEQ exceeds either ±1.645 (90% significant) or ±1.96 (95% significant). The earnings surprise is positive when SUEQ > 1.645, which is statistically significant at the 90% level assuming a two-tailed distribution. Similarly, if SUEQ < -1.645 then earnings are negative, which is statistically significant at the 90% level. Intuitively, SUE measures the earnings surprise in terms of the number of standard deviations above or below the consensus earnings estimate. From our perspective, using this measure complements our visual analysis of the movement of hotel prices relative to their three-year and five- year moving average (µ). What is missing in the visual analysis is whether prices diverge significantly from the moving average in statistical terms. In other words, we wish to determine whether the current price diverges at least one standard deviation from µ, the historical average price. The question we wish to answer is whether price is reverting to (or diverging from) the historical mean. More specifically, the question is whether this is price mean reverting. To implement this model in our current context, we use the three- or five-year moving average as our measure of µ and the rolling three- or five- year standard deviation as our measure of σ. Following is an example of how to calculate the SUP metric using high price hotels with regard to their three-year moving average. To calculate the three-year moving average from quarterly data we sum 12 quarters of data then divide by 12: Average (µ) = (70.6+63.11+58.11+90.54+95.24+99.70 +108.38+99.66+101.62+105.34+109.53+115.78) = 93.13 12 Standard Deviation (σ) = 18.99 Standardized Unexp Price (SUP) = (115.78-93.13) = 1.19 18.99 CREF Hotel Indices • CHR Report • July 2020 • www.cref.cornell.edu • Vol. 20 No. 4 35
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