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Positions & Opinions<br />
“The aid packages have<br />
in many cases prevented<br />
businesses from closing.“<br />
Gernot Ressler,<br />
EY Österreich<br />
„Distressed assets in<br />
larger numbers only<br />
exist in Southern<br />
Europe.“<br />
Daniel Jelitzka,<br />
JP Immobilien<br />
„Value adjustments, if any,<br />
could only be discerned<br />
temporarily.“<br />
Michael Buchmeier,<br />
ÖRAG<br />
overall opinion of the expert panel. Provided<br />
the Omicron wave comes to an end, they are<br />
also optimistic about a recovery in the sector.<br />
This would probably not occur before 2023,<br />
2024 for city hotels - unlike in the holiday hotel<br />
industry. The leisure hotel sector has already<br />
boomed over the past two summers and, due to<br />
this resilience, has also become an investment<br />
target for institutional investors.<br />
No wave of bankruptcies<br />
„The core problem is that many hoteliers believed<br />
that the Corona crisis would not last long<br />
and kept open - financed with equity capital -<br />
when occupancy figures did not cover costs,“<br />
explains Daniel Jelitzka (JP Immobilien). This<br />
had temporarily led to a liquidity crisis. Nevertheless,<br />
a major wave of bankruptcies is not to<br />
be expected in Austria, he said. „In many cases,<br />
the aid packages have prevented companies<br />
from closing, and quite a few were in serious<br />
trouble beforehand,“ adds Gernot Ressler (EY<br />
Austria).<br />
The generous support measures for the industry<br />
are having an effect: any impact on valuations<br />
- experts spoke of a drop of between 10<br />
and 20 percent at the height of the crisis - was<br />
only temporarily discernible, if at all. „The only<br />
thing that brought about a bit of a value adjustment<br />
were the supplementary agreements<br />
with the tenants or the rental delays granted,“<br />
says Michael Buchmeier (ÖRAG). As Herwig<br />
Peham (EHL Investment Consulting) notes, in<br />
reality there had been practically no investments<br />
in the last two years anyway that could<br />
have shown declines in valuation.<br />
New players pushing into the market<br />
„The bargains that many on the investor side,<br />
but also the operator side, expected, have de<br />
facto not occurred - not in the vacation hotel<br />
industry anyway, and not in the city hotel industry<br />
either,“ Peham continues. In any case,<br />
Karl Derfler (Adeqat Investment Services) is<br />
optimistic that despite the difficult situation in<br />
the industry, there is currently a lot of dynamic<br />
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