Nine of eighteen Fed policymakers now project at least one rate hike in 2026, and the new Chair is the most hawkish the Fed has had in a decade. If you're carrying floating-rate hotel debt, the refinancing math you ran in January is already wrong.
Three straight months of gains have everyone feeling good about hotel equities. The real number worth watching is the 200-basis-point gap between hotel REITs and the broader REIT index in February.
The Fed held at 3.50%-3.75% and some officials floated rate hikes. For hotel owners with floating-rate debt or looming maturities, the math on refinancing just changed by tens of millions of dollars.
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