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| RevPAR at our five tech hotels grew 14%, leading the way for the company |
| In conclusion, I'm confident in the state of the US lodging industry and its future |
| So that should turn into an overall positive for the market itself |
| Highest RevPAR of all select service lodging rates, demonstrating the high quality of our real estate portfolio |
| Fundamentals are solid as the supply demand equation should benefit owners overall in the next couple of years |
| Our balance sheet remains in excellent condition, and we have made significant progress on our plan to address debt maturities |
| That bodes well for us and of course, we have the most internal growth upside than any other lodging company within our big tech hotels in Silicon Valley and Bellevue |
| We were pleased to beat fourth consensus estimates as we achieved better than expected top and bottom-line performance |
| We were able to combine RevPAR growth of 2.5% with a 25% increase in our other operating profit while holding down departmental expenses flat year over year on a cost per occupied room basis |
| And then our Residence Inn Anaheim, a good market showing good growth as we head into 2024 |
| Continuing the trend from last quarter, Dallas and Washington, DC produced RevPAR growth of 8% and 5% respectively, with both markets benefiting from increased business and government travel |
| I think it's fair to say that we expect RevPAR growth for the rest of the year to be higher than Q1, given these impacts in Q1 and that we believe our RevPAR growth should outpace the overall lodging industry in 2024 with the continuing recovery of our tech-focused markets |
| While we have seen costs increased due to the reinstatement of certain brand standards and the impacts of inflation on a number of key line items, we were able to generate a GOP margin of 39% and hotel EBITDA margin of 31.6% in Q4 |
| We expect to see continued improvement in these markets this year |
| However, we know from experience that demand will rebound to new peaks, and as it does no peer has the internal growth upside as we do |
| I think there's good things to come in 2024 for us and for our shareholders |
| All but one of our top markets produced RevPAR growth in the quarter |
| Our RevPAR growth was almost double industry wide RevPAR growth |
| Although any new debt issuance will be at rates higher than our maturing debt, using our term loan and credit facility to address a portion of the maturing debt, which are floating, will allow us to benefit from what should be a declining interest rate environment this year |
| With AI driving a surge in tech investment, travel demand is building |
| With so much flexibility and unencumbered assets, we have the ability to accretively acquire hotels |
| And I think I will say just kind of continuing, and I think Jeff talked about in his prepared remarks, January was really strong for us out in Silicon Valley |
| Chatham has the highest exposure to big tech hotel demand |
| A market that's really coming on quite strongly over the last few months |
| Again, encouraging activity in San Fran and Seattle |
| Since the summer, we've seen growing demand in our primarily tech driven hotels |
| RevPAR growth of 6.1% with the growth split evenly between occupancy and ADR, exceeded industry performance by 25% |
| We had a 25% rise in other department profits as we continue to drive non-room revenue profit |
| Again, fairly encouraging given some of the drastic leisure market corrections other owners have experienced and talked about |
| Outside of our tech driven markets, we continue to see RevPAR growth at six of our top seven markets with those markets being Dallas; Washington, DC; LA; Greater New York; Austin; and San Diego |
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| At our 39 comparable hotels, GOP margins were down approximately 90 basis points, with the majority of that were 70 basis points attributable to increased labor and benefits costs |
| As we've discussed, the recovery in these markets has been slower than we'd hoped |
| RevPAR was only down 1.5% in the quarter |
| It seems like margins are down 200 basis points in the first quarter on RevPAR growth of 1.5 |
| Coming off a volatile 2023, in which our biggest corporate clients in the tech industry were cutting thousands of jobs |
| Offsetting these gains were the higher labor and benefits cost, maintenance costs of approximately 30 basis points, and utility costs of essentially 20 basis points in the quarter |
| So as you look at margins coming out of the first quarter, yeah, do we expect them to continue to go down? Yes, a little bit, but it won't be to the extent of the 200 basis points or so that you're seeing in the fourth quarter |
| And they're coming off of obviously weak numbers in 2023 |
| So even though we may get occupancies, approaching 2019 numbers, ADRs are still going to be down |
| In fact, our employee count was 1,397 at the end of the year, which is up only eight employees from September and down approximately 20% from pre-pandemic levels |
| With construction costs elevated and lending restricted, supply should remain muted for the foreseeable years ahead |
| San Jose deployments remain off about 27% to 2019 levels |
| It didn't really hit Silicon Valley as much |
| Weekday and weekend occupancy was up about 100 basis points in the quarter versus last year and is down approximately 9% and 7% versus 2019, respectively |
| The coastal northeastern market highly dependent on leisure travel, was really the only market where RevPAR was down in the quarter, but I will say that it is still meaningfully up compared to 2019 levels |
| Our Q1 2024 RevPAR guidance of 0% to 3% reflects renovation impacts at our HGI Marina del Rey; Homewood, San Antonio; Hyatt Place, Cherry Creek; and Embassy Suites, Springfield properties, along with the impacts of bad weather at a number of our properties in February |
| Because first, occupancy needs to get back to a level that will allow everybody in the market to push ADR |
| Combined with lower financing costs compared to six months ago, as well as an interest rate curve that is trending down |
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