Highly regarded 15-year hospitality brokerage veteran bolsters growing investment sales team

Hodges Ward Elliott, the world’s leading independent hotel brokerage and investment-bankingfirm, with offices in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and London, today announced that Samantha Fisher has joined the firm as a Senior Vice President. In her new role, Fisher will focus on securing new listings, executing on dispositions and developing new business for HWE as well as strengthen the HWE brokerage platform by further developing new and existing client relationships.

A fifteen-year veteran of the hospitality investment sales profession, Fisher joins HWE after serving in a similar role with Jones Lang LaSalle in Los Angeles for nearly seven years. Throughout her career, she has overseen over $2 billion in hotel real estate transactions, including several high-profile deals in the Southern California region. Fisher is currently based in Los Angeles but will be relocating to the South Florida area in the fall and will focus will on securing and closing deals within the highly desirable Southeast Coastalhospitality market.

“We are very fortunate to have Samantha join the Hodges Ward Elliott team,” adds Mark Elliott, President, HWE. “Her diverse skill set, years of hospitality investment experience, and extensive industry relationships will add tremendous value to our firm and further enhance the services we provide to existing and new clients.”

“I am excited for the opportunity to join the industry’s premier hospitality investment brokerage,” said Fisher. “The HWE platform will allow me to meet the needs of my clients and I look forward to working side-by-side with the other team members here and expanding the firm’s reach into the expanding Southeast Coastal market.”

About Hodges Ward Elliott:

Hodges Ward Elliott, founded in 1975, is the leading hotel brokerage and investment-banking firm in the country providing total capital solutions, including hotel sales, recapitalizations and debt placement for our clients. Over the past 5 years, HWE has sold or financed more than $20 billion of hotels and resorts across the U.S. including more than $4.2 billion in 2017.