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The Rich Somers Report

Hotel Investing Insights & Predictions: He's the National Director for Hospitality Market Analytics CoStar | Jan Freitag E436

The Rich Somers Report

Rich Somers

Business, Investing

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When the market gets noisy, the data gets louder. In this episode, Rich sits down with Jan Freitag — National Director of Hospitality Analytics at CoStar — for a no-spin breakdown of what’s actually happening in hotel investing right now and where the smartest capital is positioning next. Jan pulls back the curtain on real transaction data, RevPAR trends, cap rate movement, supply constraints, and why luxury hotels are quietly becoming one of the strongest inflation hedges left. They dig into...

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0:00.0

He is the analytics head director for co-star under the hospitality asset class and is in the know of all knows for hospitality.

0:11.0

We got my man.

0:13.5

I hope I don't butcher this.

0:15.3

I know I know Michael said he did as well.

0:18.2

Yon Frytag, is that right?

0:20.5

Let's go, baby.

0:21.6

Let's go.

0:22.6

I got lucky there.

0:23.6

Anyways, Yon, appreciate you taking the time to join us and excited for this conversation.

0:26.6

Yeah, thanks, which I'm, thanks Michael, for making this all happen.

0:31.6

I am the National Director of Hospitality Analytics for CluStar.

0:36.6

We make the Star report that some of you love or love to hate depending on the week.

0:42.3

So every Wednesday morning, you get an email from Nashville, Tennessee that shows you how you did compared to your competitors.

0:49.3

I've been in this role for well over 20 years.

0:52.3

I came with STR. I was employee number 40. I've been in this role for well over 20 years. I came with STR. I was employee number 40 up in Hendersonville a thousand years ago.

0:59.0

We were bought by co-star in 2019 right before the pandemic and then moved downtown to National

1:06.5

Tennessee, which is what the background is here in last year, actually, 30 months ago.

1:11.9

And in my role, I do this.

1:13.8

I talk about hotel data all that time.

1:16.2

I'm a one-trick-coning, I'm an inch-wide, I'm a mile deep.

1:19.0

I know a lot about a very tiny topic, which is hotel data.

1:23.8

And, yeah, so I write a lot on Coastal News.

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