Ellen Meyer
Advice for Hotel Developers from Maki Nakamura Bara
Maki Nakamura Bara, president of Chartres Lodging Group, co-founded the property redevelopment and repositioning company along with now-CEO Robert Kline. She also serves as co-chairman of Kokua Hospitality, a management company based in San Francisco. Bara shared the following...
Crossover Investors
Anthony Falor, managing director for Ten-X’s Hospitality Group, describes crossover investors in the industry as “qualified groups or individuals who may or may not currently be in the hospitality space but understand the benefit...
How Working With Brokers Can Lead To More Lucrative Deals
In the hard and fast, numbers-based world of hotel asset transactions, a surprising amount of emotion can come into play. “There is more of a personal aspect to hotel sales than most other types...
Focusing on a Niche: Maki Nakamura Bara
The daughter of an architect-turned-residential real estate developer, Maki Nakamura Bara likes to describe the “aha moment” when she decided to focus on the hotel industry: “I was a 22-year-old general analyst at a...
