Asia Pacific H1 2022 hotel investment up 33 percent year-on-year as market moves above pre-pandemic levels

Recovery in Asia Pacific’s hotel sector continued to accelerate in 2022 with investment volumes for the first half of the year totaling $6.8 billion.

According to JLL data and analysis, investments in the first half of 2022 represent 33 percent growth year-on-year and an 11.9 percent increase from 2019, demonstrating a return to pre-pandemic levels of capital deployment into the Asia Pacific hotels sector.

In total, there were 75 transactions in the first half of 2022, down 20.2 percent year-on-year and 33 percent on numbers from the first half of 2019. But the total number of rooms transacted during the first six months of 2022 was 19,822, representing an increase of 29.9 percent versus the first half of 2021 and 9.4 percent during the pre-pandemic period in 2019. The increase in deal activity was influenced by a spike in portfolio transactions, as institutional investors sitting on dry powder seek to deploy their capital more efficiently. According to JLL, however,