Savills and Hotelivate have joined forces to launch a new platform, long anticipated by the region’s hospitality advisory industry, where real estate and hospitality expertise meet to deliver comprehensive solutions.
Something has been shifting in the way the world’s capital looks at hotels.
For years, hospitality sat at the margins of institutional real estate—too operationally complex, too cyclical, too dependent on management contracts and brand relationships—aspects that most real estate investors didn’t fully understand. It was a sector that attracted specialists and enthusiasts, rather than the broad, patient capital that typically flows into offices, logistics, or retail.
That has changed. Across South Asia and the Middle East, hotel assets are being underwritten, traded and valued with the same rigour as any other institutional real estate class. RevPAR growth is strong. Branded supply is expanding rapidly, well beyond the gateway cities that once defined investment conversations. Cross-border capital from the Gulf, from Singapore, from global private equity is flowing into the region with a conviction and scale that would have been difficult to imagine a decade ago.
The industry, in short, has matured. However, the advisory ecosystem around faces a quiet but urgent question: has it kept pace?
