The franchise companies leading the U.S. construction pipeline with the greatest number of new construction projects are Marriott International with 1,286 hotels and 166,174 rooms, Hilton with 1,223 hotels and 139,742 rooms, and IHG Hotels & Resorts with 769 hotels and 77,558 rooms. These three franchise companies comprise 68 percent of the total construction pipeline projects.

Sunstone Hotel Investors has agreed to pay about $175 million for the 85-room Four Seasons Napa hotel. The price tag amounts to about $2.1 million per hotel room key. When the Four Seasons sale closes, it will be the second highest valued U.S. hotel deal ever,

Highgate and Cerberus will acquire all outstanding shares of CorePoint common stock in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion based on the $15.65 per share consideration, which reflects the assumption of current net debt.

U.S. inflation hit a three-decade high of 6.2% in October.

General Electric plans to split into three public companies focused on aviation, healthcare and energy.

As of September, there were 1,364 hotels in construction in the U.S., representing 172,251 rooms. Additionally, there are 1,867 hotels with 205,829 rooms in the final planning phase and 2,217 hotels with 263,673 rooms in the planning phase.

Airbnb posted record revenue in the third quarter, punctuating its rebound from the collapse in bookings during the early days of the pandemic.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has invested $1 billion in futures-exchange giant CME Group Inc. and struck a deal to move the company’s core trading systems to the cloud. Under the deal, the technology giant’s Google Cloud unit would eventually power markets that handle trillions of dollars in trades each day.

The Federal Reserve approved plans to begin scaling back its bond-buying stimulus program this month and end it by June, a major step toward withdrawing its aggressive, pandemic-driven economic support amid a recent inflation surge.

The first three quarters of 2021 set a record for commercial property sales activity while prices also reached new highs. A lot of uncertainty still hangs over the office and retail markets, while a full recovery in the hotel business could be years away. But purchases of apartment buildings, life-science labs and industrial properties helped propel commercial sales for the first nine months of this year to $462.1 billion, up 10% from the same nine-month period in 2019.