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Kirsten Smiley, MAI, is the Director of the Southern California Region for the U.S. Hotel Appraisals team. She is a Designated Member of the Appraisal Institute. Since joining U.S. Hotel Appraisals in 2014, Kirsten has worked with the St. Louis and Portland offices before relocating to Los Angeles in 2018. Kirsten’s international background and understanding of both Asian and U.S. markets have allowed her to assist her domestic clients and their international partners. She has extensive expertise in markets throughout the West Coast. Kirsten graduated with dual international degrees in Hospitality Management from Sun Yat-Sen University in China and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

From San Diego to Orange County, and Los Angeles to the Coachella Valley, Southern California includes a collection of the nation's most vibrant lodging markets, with hundreds of properties. Our West Hollywood office also oversees our Phoenix and Las Vegas offices, which serve markets throughout Nevada and Arizona. As a hotelier with property interests the Southwest, or a lender considering extending credit to an asset in this region, you need experts with on-the-ground experience in gauging hotel performance and values for local hotels. U.S. Hotel Appraisals works on hundreds of hotel appraisals, market studies, and feasibility studies in markets across Southern California and the West each year. Our work is tailored exclusively to limited- and select-service hotels and portfolios, including independent and branded assets. This focused scope and market-specific expertise allow us to deliver you the most cost-effective, quality valuation of your hotel or portfolio in the shortest possible time.

We work with hotels representing every major brand, as well as independent properties not affiliated with the big chains, and we understand the dynamics of demand, competition, sales, and performance that lead to accurate, authoritative hotel values. We are experts with hostels and hotel-hostel hybrids as well.