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email: melliott@hwehotels.com

Mark Elliott

Since joining Hodges Ward Elliott (“HWE”) in 1983 and becoming a partner in the firm, Mark has distinguished himself during the years as the top hotel broker in the country.  Mark has personally sold more hotels than any other individual in the United States.  Since 1992, he has personally sold and/or financed 802 hotels, totaling approximately 173,000 rooms, with a dollar volume of approximately $22 billion.  HWE executed a transaction volume of $6 billion in 2006 and $5.6 billion in 2007.  Additionally, Mark has structured several corporate financings and large portfolio M&A transactions in the past five years.

Mark is currently a member of Industry Real Estate Finance Advisory Council (“IREFAC”).

Mark has been an annual speaker at several conferences including the National Hotel Investment Conference in New York and ALIS in Los Angeles, where, in January 2006, Mark was named the recipient of the prestigious “Jack A. Shaffer Financial Advisor of the Year” Award based upon the vote of hotel industry participants.  Mark has also been a speaker at the Harvard Business School.  He has written articles for Real Estate Finance Journal and a chapter in the Hotel Investment Handbook, as well as being quoted in the Wall Street Journal as a lodging industry expert.

Noteworthy sale/financing transactions executed by Mark are as follows:

  1. $1.7 billion sale of the White Lodging Hotel Portfolio consisting of 100 hotels
  2. $900 million sale of the RLJ Urban Lodging Fund
  3. $746.1 million sale of the Ocean Hotel Portfolio consisting of 20 hotels
  4. $469.3 million sale of the Hilton Garden Inn Times Square and Hampton Inn Times Square North in New York, NY
  5. $402 million sale of the CNL 33-Hotel Portfolio
  6. $395 million sale of the Concord Hotel Portfolio consisting of 20 hotels
  7. $231 million sale of the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston, MA
  8. $293 million sale of the Encore Portfolio consisting of 29 hotels
  9. $287 million sale of the Marriott East Side in New York, NY
  10. $215 million recapitalization of the Metropolitan Hotel in New York, NY
  11. $201.5 million recapitalization of the Lexington Hotel in New York, NY
  12. $514 million sale of the Starwood 8-Hotel Portfolio
  13. $440 million sale of the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, CA
  14. $350 million revolving line of credit for Columbia Sussex
  15. $330 million sale of the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, CA
  16. $260 million sale of the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC
  17. $276 million sale of the HEI/HRO 7-Hotel Portfolio (locations throughout the United States)
  18. $250 million sale of the Waterford 9-Hotel Portfolio
  19. $215 million sale of the RLJ 4-Hotel Portfolio (located throughout the United States)
  20. $187 million financing of the Renaissance Chicago Hotel in Chicago, IL
  21. $145 million financing of the Ashford 5-Hotel Portfolio
  22. $166.5 million development capitalization of a 335-room luxury hotel in Chicago, IL
  23. $151 million sale of the Sunstone Hotel Portfolio consisting of 6 hotels
  24. $124.4 million sale of the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, CA
  25. $93 million sale and $55.8 million financing of the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City in Arlington,VA
  26. $214 million sale of the Marriott Copley Place in Boston, MA
  27. $97 million financing of the Hawk’s Cay Resort on Duck Island, FL
  28. $92 million sale of the Ritz-Carlton in Palm Beach, FL
  29. $89 million financing of the Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg, FL
  30. $87 million financing of the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, CA
  31. $250 million sale of the Montage Hotel & Resort in Laguna Beach, CA
  32. $100 million recapitalization of the National Conference Center in Lansdowne, VA
  33. $145 million Omni at ChampionsGate in Orlando, FL
  34. $76 million sale of the Palmilla Resort in Cabo, Mexico
  35. $270 million sale of the FSA 14-Hotel Portfolio (locations throughout the United States)
  36. $175 million, 1,100-room sale of the Chicago Marriott Downtown in Chicago, IL
  37. $226 million sale of the Camino Real Portfolio in Mexico
  38. $71 million sale of the Park Hyatt in Toronto, Ontario
  39. $136 million sale of the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, FL
  40. $124 million development financing and $160 million recapitalization of the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, FL
  41. $90 million development financing of the Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia, PA
  42. $446 million sale of the Swissôtel 4-Hotel Portfolio
  43. $236 million sale of the Adam’s Mark 8-Hotel Portfolio
  44. $68 million sale of the Wyndham Montréal, Quebec
  45. $80 million financing of the Lodgian Portfolio consisting of 18 hotels
  46. $77 million sale of 20 Fairfield Inns for The Carlyle Group
  47. $108 million sale of the Marriott Downtown in Indianapolis, IN
  48. $46 million financing of the Westin Stonebriar Resort in Frisco, TX
  49. $48.3 million sale of the Kapalua Bay Hotel in Kapalua Bay, Maui
  50. Sale of the Madison Hotel & Office Building in Washington, DC
  51. $100 million sale of the Adam’s Mark in Jacksonville, FL
  52. $90 million sale of the Fairmont Kansas City at the Plaza in Kansas City, MO

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