JLL’s Gilda Perez-Alvarado Recognized as Top Hotel Broker
Awarded to the hotel industry professional who demonstrates "enthusiasm, drive and style" in arranging transactions which benefit both buyer and seller, JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Managing Director and Global Hotel Desk leader, Gilda Perez-Alvarado was awarded with the Jack A. Shaffer Financial Advisor of the Year Award yesterday at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS).
"It's wonderful to see Gilda's hard work and dedication receive industry-wide recognition," said Arthur Adler, Americas CEO and Managing Director, JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Group. "She is clearly deserving of this award, given her track record of success in facilitating and executing cross-border capital hotel transactions and her unwavering dedication to meeting our clients' objectives. We couldn't be more proud of her accomplishments."
Based in New York, Perez-Alvarado serves as Managing Director and the lead of the Hotels & Hospitality Group's Global Hotels Desk, where she focuses on facilitating and executing cross border capital hotel transactions. In 2015, Perez-Alvarado was involved with $3.5 billion in hotel real estate transactions. Her most notable assignments during her tenure at JLL include the sale of the Essex House New York, the InterContinental Barclay, Le Meridien Cambridge, Marriott New York East Side, Hyatt Regency Vancouver, the K+K portfolio in Europe and the Turnberry Resort Scotland.
"It's an honor to be presented with such a prestigious award," said Perez-Alvarado. "This is a huge recognition not just on an individual basis, but also for my entire team and JLL Hotels & Hospitality Group's culture of putting clients first."
JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Group has completed more transactions than any other hotels and hospitality real estate advisor over the last five years, totalling more than $68 billion worldwide. Between negotiating the world's most extraordinary, enticing, and profitable property deals, the group's 350-strong global team also closed more than 4,400 advisory, valuation and asset management assignments. Investors worldwide turn to JLL to shape their strategies, tailor their portfolios and maximize the value of their assets. We are recognized as the global leader in real estate services across hospitality properties of all shapes and sizes. Our expert advice is backed by industry-leading research. We apply our broad spectrum of hotel valuation, brokerage, asset management and consultancy services through every phase of the hotel lifecycle. We have helped more hotel investors, owners and operators achieve high returns on their assets than any other real estate advisor in the world. Whether you are looking for a hotel or you're ready to sell, we'll use our capital markets expertise, hospitality industry knowledge and global relationships to put the right parties together and execute a bespoke deal that exceeds your objectives.
To find out more, talk to JLL: http://www.jll.com/services/industries/hotels-and-hospitality.
About JLL
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.8 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 111,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
