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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.

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         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.

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Are All Crises the Same? - Cornell Hotel Indices: Second Quarter 2020
ABOUT ABOUT
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             Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
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             We wish to thank Glenn Withiam for copy editing this paper.
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                                                 this paper.
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Are All Crises the Same? - Cornell Hotel Indices: Second Quarter 2020
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
Are All Crises the Same? - Cornell Hotel Indices: Second Quarter 2020
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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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exhibit 7b

Comparison of RevPAR for the various regions: financial crisis versus the pandemic (concluded)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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exhibit 12a

Transaction volume (observed) and median sale price

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exhibit 12b

Transaction volume (observed) and median sale price (continued)

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exhibit 12c

 Transaction volume (observed) and median sale price (concluded)

Source: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance

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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

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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

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exhibit 15

 Hotel indices through 2020, quarter 2

Source: Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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-

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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President                                 Co-Chief Investment Officer
Seaview Investors                         Clearview Hotel Capital
                                                                                  © 2020 Cornell University. This report
Steven M. Angel                           Alan Kanders ’87                        may not be reproduced or distributed
Principal                                 Principal                               without the express permission of the
Fulcrum Hospitality LLC                   Three Wall Capital                      publisher.
Richard Baker ’88                         Rob Kline ’84
Governor and Chief Executive Officer      CEO & Co-Founder                        The CREF Report series is produced for
HBC                                       The Chartres Lodging Group              the benefit of the hospitality real estate
Michael Barnello A&S ’87                  Neil Luthra                             and finance industries by The Center
Former President & CEO                    Principal                               for Real Estate and Finance at Cornell
LaSalle Hotel Properties                  Highgate                                University.
Robert Buccini A&S ’90                    Jay Mantz P ’21
Co-president                              President, New York                     Steven Carvell, Arthur Adler ’78 and
The Buccini/Pollin Group                  Rialto                                  Karen Newman Adler ’78 Academic
Marty Burger P’17, P’20                   Alfonso Munk ’96                        Director
Chief Executive Officer                   Americas Chief Investment Officer and
Silverstein Properties, Inc.              Head of Latin America                   Glenn Withiam, Contributing Editor
Adam Burinescu CALS ’03                   Prudential Real Estate Investors
Managing Director                         Chip Ohlsson                            Kate Walsh, Dean, E.M. Statler
Centerbridge Partners, LP                 Executive Vice President and Chief      Professor, School of Hotel Administration
Rodney Clough ’94                         Development Officer, North America
Managing Partner                          Wyndham Hotel Group
HVS                                       Mark Owens ’00                          Center for Real Estate and Finance
Howard Cohen ’89                          EVP and Head of Hospitality Capital     Cornell University
Chief Executive Officer                   Markets
                                                                                  Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Atlantic | Pacific Companies              CBRE
                                                                                  School of Hotel Administration
Navin Dimond P’14, P’19                   Daniel Peek ’92
                                                                                  Statler Hall
President & Chief Executive Officer       President, Hotel Group
                                          HWE                                     Ithaca, NY 14853
Stonebridge Companies
Joel Eisemann, MPS RE ’80                 Dilip Petigara                          607-255-6025
Chief Development Officer, The Americas   Chief Executive Officer                 www.cref.cornell.edu
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)       Access Point Financial
Habib Enayetullah                         David Pollin ’90
SVP for Real Estate and Asset             Co-founder and President
Management                                The Buccini/Pollin Group
Hilton Worldwide                          Ray Potter CALS ’87, MBA ’92
Russell Galbut ’74                        Founder and Managing Partner             Robert Springer ’99
Managing Principal                        R3 Funding                               Executive Vice President,
Crescent Heights                          Michael Profenius, P’15, P’17            Chief Investment Officer
                                          Chief Operating Officer                  Sunstone Hotel Investors
Nolan Hecht ’97
Senior Managing Director                  Northwood Investors                      Alan Tantleff ’87
Square Mile Capital                       David Rosenberg P ’11, P’13, P’19        Senior Managing Director–Corporate
                                          Chief Executive Officer                  Finance/Restructuring Practice Leader,
Kate Henrikson ’96                                                                 Hospitality Gaming and Leisure
SVP Investment and Portfolio Analysis     Sawyer Realty Holdings
                                                                                   FTI Consulting
RLJ Lodging Trust                         Chuck Rosenzweig ILR ’85, JD ’88
                                          Founder and Managing Partner             Dan Unger ’97
Kenneth Himmel ’70                                                                 Chief Development Officer
President and CEO                         Criterion Real Estate Capital
                                                                                   Tishman
Related Urban                             Ben Rowe ’96
Co-Managing Partner                       Founder and Managing Partner             Robert White
Gulf Related                              KHP Capital Partners                     President
                                                                                   Real Capital Analytics
Jeff Horwitz                              Seth Singerman ’99
Partner, M&A Private Equity Real Estate   Managing Partner                         Lanhee Yung ’97
(Head), Lodging and Gaming (Head)         Singerman Real Estate (SRE)              Managing Director of Global Fundraising
Private Equity Corporate Governance                                                and Investor Relations
                                          Jackie Soffer P’20                       Starwood Capital Group
International Practice Group              Chairman & CEO
Proskauer                                 Turnberry

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Center for Hospitality Research Advisory Board
                                                           Cornell Hospitality Report
                                                           Vol. 20, No. 4 (July 2020)
Pablo Alonso
Chief Executive Officer                                    ©2020 Cornell University. This report may not be reproduced
HotStats                                                   or distributed without the express permission of the publisher.
Scott Berman ’84                                           Cornell Hospitality Report is produced for the
Principal, Real Estate Business Advisory Services,         benefit of the hospitality and service industries by
Industry Leader, Hospitality & Leisure                     The Center for Hospitality Research
PwC
                                                           at Cornell University.
Vivek Bhogaraju ’06
GM, Lodging Revenue Performance Solutions                  Linda Canina, Academic Director
Expedia Group
                                                           Nicole McQuiddy-Davis, Assistant Program Manager
Patrick Bosworth                                           Glenn Withiam, Contributing Editor
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Duetto
Ian-Michael Farkas                                         Kate Walsh, Dean, E.M. Statler Professor,
Vice President, Strategic Accounts                          School of Hotel Administration
Local Measure                                              The Center for Hospitality Research
Chuck Floyd, P ’15 and ’18                                 School of Hotel Adminstration
Global President of Operations                             Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Hyatt                                                      Cornell University
RJ Friedlander                                             Statler Hall
Founder and CEO                                            Ithaca, NY 14853
ReviewPro
                                                           607-254-4505
Eliot Hamlisch
Senior Vice President, Loyalty & Partnerships              chr.cornell.edu
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
Tim Hentschel
Chief Executive Officer                                    Jess Petitt ’05
HotelPlanner.com                                           Vice President, Analytics
                                                           Hilton
Steve Hood
Senior Vice President of Research                          Michele Sarkisian
STR                                                        Partner
                                                           Avenger Capital
Taimur Khan, MENG ’93
Vice President, GM Travel, Transportation,                 Stacy Silver
Hospitality Solutions Team                                 President
Salesforce                                                 Silver Hospitality Group

Balaji Krishnamurthy                                       Dan Skodol MMH ’04
Chief Executive Officer                                    Vice President of Data Science and Analytics
Pure Wellness                                              Cendyn

Christopher Kronenthal                                     Cecil Staton
President and Chief Technology Officer                     President and Chief Executive Officer
FreedomPay                                                 AAHOA

Mark Lomanno P ’08                                         Scott Taber ’85
CHR Advisory Board Chair,                                  Senior Vice President, Rooms
Partner & Senior Advisor for Kalibri Labs                  Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
Kalibri Labs                                               Adam Weissenberg ’85
Kelly McGuire, MMH ’01; PhD ’07                            Global Travel, Hospitality and Leisure Leader and
Managing Principal Hospitality                             National Managing Partner, Clients & Industries
ZS                                                         Deloitte & Touche USA

Dan O’Sullivan                                             Rick Werber RPA, FMA ’82
Vice President of Sales, EMEA                              Senior Vice President, Engineering and Sustainability
Translations.com                                           Host Hotels & Resorts

Michael Partridge ’92                                      Michelle Woodley ’89
Vice President of Sales and Revenue Analysis               President
Marriott International                                     Preferred Hotels & Resorts

Dilip Petigara                                             Mark Woodworth ’77; MPS ’78
Chief Executive Officer                                    Senior Managing Director
Access Point Financial                                     CBRE Hotels Research
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