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Head of Hospitality EMEA • United Kingdom

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Jonathan Hubbard

Head of Hospitality EMEA • United Kingdom


About

Jon has over 35 years’ experience of the hospitality sector across EMEA, dealing with a wide range of hotel assets, from budget to luxury, and across capital markets, development, valuation and advisory service lines.

He has executed and led both single asset and large portfolio valuations in multiple jurisdictions across EMEA.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield in 2017 to head up the Hospitality team in EMEA, Jon had responsibility for Investor Services and the valuation and advisory teams across EMEA at JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group, as well as leading the businesses in the Middle East & Africa and Northern Europe.

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The hospitality industry is changing. From disruptive technology to the shifting definition of what a hotel can be, hospitality advisers require not only real estate and operational expertise, but insight into the future.

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Hospitality Capital Markets

Our Hospitality Capital Markets team provides a complete advisory service to investors, whether buying, selling or managing their capital within the hotel sector. We combine operational expertise with up-to-the-minute real estate knowledge – and members of our capital markets team have advised on transactions worth well over €6.0 bn across EMEA.

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Hospitality Valuation

Our Hospitality Valuation & Advisory team deals exclusively with hotel and hospitality assets. Using our real estate, hotel operations, finance and asset management knowledge, we work with global institutions, lenders, operators, investors and individuals, providing valuations for transactional, lending and regulatory purposes.

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Investor and Developer Services

Our team has market leading insight and experience having been involved in Development Advisory and Operator Selection processes on the most important hotel developments schemes across Europe

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