HIA was formed in Summer 2002 with Directors having over a century of combined professional hotel sector experience.

HIA has a primary focus in the United Kingdom and Europe and is directly associated with Capital Hotel Management LLC which provides a similar range and scope of services to upscale hotel and resort owners in the USA.

HIA has been founded in association with Capital Hotel Management LLC, an established Hotel Asset Management Group in the USA - providing in depth experience, additional resource and a complementary skill set to HIA London. This association provides our clients with immediate relevant expertise and differentiates HIA from other market and financial specialists within the hotel sector in Europe.

CHM provides experience of working in the homogeneous, single economy market of the United States - direct relevant factually based experience of exactly what economies of scale can and should also be achieved in revenue generation, cost containment and brand development in Europe.

HIA provides in depth local experience in the multi-cultural, multi-lingual markets of Europe, which have a high propensity for travel across national boundaries. Knowledge of this marketplace also provides pertinent insights into the strategies required of US based investors and operators to penetrate the less homogeneous overseas markets.

This choice of association is not co-incidental. The senior professional staff of HIA and CHM have a long and successful history of co-operation and collaboration in providing hotel sector advice to mutual clients on both sides of the Atlantic. For almost 20 years, these senior professionals have worked together to benefit their clients. They have extensive in depth experience of all aspects of hotel operations and investment, and a wide range of clients to whom they have provided objective, impartial advice.

The combination of this diverse experience and expertise together with a long standing and strong professional working relationship provides HIA with an unrivalled ability to turn real estate and property investors into truly knowledgeable hotel owners with ACTIVE OWNERSHIP interest.

In response to the increasing trend in the hotel sectors of the United Kingdom and Europe for the separation of property assets and business operations, the founders of HIA London identified in early 2002 that “new” hotel owners (banks, property investors and other financial institutions) have a clear need for knowledgeable, independent professional advice.

These “new” hotel owners are exposed to a significantly different risk profile than in more traditional forms of property investment.
In commercial property investment, annual income streams (rents) are not linked to or dependent on the trading business of the tenant. The investor/owner (who often benefits from a predefined yield for fixed periods) is in effect, passive.

However, in hotel investments, hotel leases, asset values and ongoing returns are dependent upon the continuous maximisation of the revenues and profits of the operating hotel business.

To ensure maximisation of investor/owner income streams, knowledge of the strategies, tactics and operating policies and procedures of the operator tenant is required – the investor/owner must be active.

The inherent conflict of brand equity versus owners’ equity is fully explained in

“Why Asset Management”


We take our advice seriously - and don't spend our clients money on expensive offices in overpriced locations:

HIA is based in outer London.
CHM is based in suburban Boston, Mass.

But we establish a local presence through satellite offices for all our client properties
Satellite offices are located in:

Chicago, Detroit, South Florida and New York.

HIA is also established in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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