EB-5 Financing for hotel development: Using guest expenditures to calculate...
USCIS has challenged EB-5 financing for hotel projects that rely on guest expenditures....By: Jim Butler
View ArticleThe Hard Rock Hotel San Diego -- a condo hotel -- did NOT offer "securities"...
Hotel Lawyers on "hotel condo" units as securities (or NOT). An important decision on when a condo hotel does NOT involve the sale of a "security" One of the most significant challenges for developers...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi Investment Fund buying 3 Editions from Marriott. What does this...
Craig Karmin and Alexandra Berzon of the Wall Street Journal broke a big story yesterday evening which appeared in the August 15, 2013 US edition of the paper at page C3. The headline is "Marriott...
View ArticleRobert T. Koger of Molinaro Koger is arrested and put behind bars. A shocking...
Hotel Lawyer with the latest on the arrest and jailing of Rob Koger, formerly of Molinaro Koger. There are some significant new developments in the saga of Robert T. ("Rob") Koger and the high profile...
View ArticleNOW is the best time to buy or sell a hotel in many years
The number of hotel transactions is up by more than 50% for the first 6 months of 2013 over the comparable period last year, and is expected to top $18 billion for 2013, according to Jones Lang...
View ArticleRobert T. Koger -- Hotel Lawyer with the FBI affidavit that helped put Koger...
The hotel world has been fascinated by the civil litigation and criminal actions swirling around the former President and owner of Molinaro Koger, Robert T. Koger....By: Jim Butler
View ArticleADA Defense lawyer: Pool lift litigation proliferates. Why enterprise-wide...
It has been almost a year since the Department of Justice's ADA requirement for fixed or permanent pool lifts in "places of public accommodation" has been in effect. Now a fact (and cost) of doing...
View ArticleWarning for hotel investors considering golf courses: Golf courses are...
Hotel investors suddenly seem to be buying or building more golf courses. With the right expectations and circumstances, golf courses can make sense -- particularly as an amenity for hotels,...
View ArticleEB-5 Alert: U.S. House of Representatives Approves Three-Year Extension of...
EB-5 Program Regional Centers Have Been Re-authorized until 2015. EB-5 Regional Centers play an important role in raising EB-5 financing for new business development, and there has been some concern...
View ArticleJMBM's Hotel Developer Forum: LA wants 4,000 new hotel rooms stat!
Hotel Developer Forum in Los Angeles With hotel development beginning to blossom in many national markets where the cost to buy a hotel substantially exceeds the cost to build one, JMBM's hotel lawyers...
View ArticleHotel Lawyer in Los Angeles: Why does it seem like everyone wants to build or...
The coolest new downtown in America - If you haven’t been to what the cognoscenti now call “DTLA” (downtown Los Angeles) for a while, you might not recognize it. Gone are the days the sidewalks were...
View ArticleBuying bad loans and distressed debt in Europe (and Italy)
Some are calling it the “distressed real estate gold rush in Europe.” Others who have been expecting 1990s-style opportunistic investment opportunities for several years, now are seeing a change in...
View ArticleLodging Industry Investment Council’s Top 15 Member Quotes
The Lodging Industry Investment Council (LIIC) is the hotel industry “think tank” whose membership includes the hospitality industry’s most influential investors, lenders, corporate real estate...
View ArticleHotel Lawyer in New York: Mood of the New York hotel conference
2014 NYU Hotel Investment Conference - Last night (Sunday, June 1, 2014), the NYU hotel conference kicked off with its gala grand opening party. With about 2,300 people attending this year, the energy...
View ArticleChina and JMBM’s Chinese Investment Group™ are in the news again!
As the significance of Chinese investment in the US continues its rapid growth, news articles regularly document new details of this major trend. And in today’s Los Angeles Times, Tiffany Hsu provided...
View ArticleHotel Lawyer: Growing Together — China and Los Angeles County
The growth of outbound Chinese investment - Earlier this month we posted an article about the surge in Chinese investment as reported by Tiffany Hsu in the Los Angeles Times. See, “China and JMBM’s...
View ArticleHotel Lawyer: What is happening with Chinese real estate companies investing...
Concerns over a real estate bubble in China - For decades, China was referred to as the “sleeping giant.” This reference is to the great potential impact of the country, its vast population, and its...
View ArticleThe 5 questions every hotel developer is asking about EB-5 financing
In seeking to access EB-5 financing, our developer clients have asked a lot of questions, but most of them can really be summed up in the following 5 questions: 1. Will EB-5 work for me on my project?...
View ArticleHow to win the race for EB-5 capital: Obtaining “preferred” status for...
What does it mean to establish “preferred” status? What does it take? The preferred status of a developer and project with respect to EB-5 financing has certain elements are more or less inherent in...
View ArticleHotel development & EB-5 financing: Why you don’t want to form your own...
How should hotel developers go after EB-5 financing? Although the EB-5 immigrant visa program has been around since 1990, the current trend of using this as a source of financing for hotel development...
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