Photo Credit: An extended-stay hotel in Gainesville, Florida. Extended Stay America
Demand is up 6%, occupancy is a fat 77%, and the pipeline is thinning. That may be a textbook setup for pricing power.
LinkedIn X Facebook Email Which specific extended-stay brands or price tiers are best positioned to capture the 2027 pricing-power window? How much of the demand is driven by workforce housing and displaced residents versus traditional business and leisure travel? What would it take for the construction pipeline to reaccelerate and close the supply gap? Select a question above or ask something else
Demand for U.S. extended-stay hotels grew at its fastest pace in more than four years in May, even as the construction pipeline started to thin.
For developers and brand executives, the widening gap between accelerating demand and decelerating supply points to a window of pricing power opening in 2027.
Extended-stay has outrun the broader industry for months, but May's margin was unusually wide.
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