Our Mission

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT SALES

We help hotel owners in the Upper Midwest protect basis and time their exits, using the analysis and market coverage of a national platform. with one difference. We answer to our clients, not to shareholders.

  • P&E Advisors is a hotel brokerage and advisory firm built around capital stewardship, not transaction velocity. We work with hotel owners and investors across the full hotel cycle — acquisition, hold, repositioning, and exit — always anchored to basis protection and risk-adjusted returns. Hotel assets should be traded with a clear read on RevPAR cycles, operating leverage, and capital market timing.

    That means we do not push deals to satisfy internal quotas or shareholder expectations. We engage selectively, advise candidly, and execute only when pricing, fundamentals, and exit optionality line up with what the client is actually trying to do.

    Our job is not to sell momentum. It is to translate market reality into a strategy an owner can act on — so they hold downside protection, see inflection points early, and transact with intention instead of under pressure.

  • Regional expertise, national-grade analysis, and a firm built to be better rather than bigger. We're applying almost a decade on a national platform to a model that keeps the efficiency with the client.

    Our brokerage backend blends AI-driven infrastructure with the marketing channels this asset class actually responds to, built so the efficiency flows from broker to client instead of to shareholders.

    After eight years inside a publicly traded brokerage, the conclusion was simple: alignment matters. When clients are effectively carrying the burden of shareholder returns, that cost lands in the bid-ask spread. The technology gains national firms have made should have accrued to market participants; instead they were absorbed by corporate overhead. That is the whole reason this firm exists.

    Clients first. Not shareholders.

    The foundation of value is trust, and trust works best when your broker answers to you — not to a quarterly earnings call.

  • P&E Advisors grew out of small beginnings and an unlikely partnership. After years of hotel stays and market canvassing from the guest side, Jake left manufacturing in 2017, put his finance degree to work, and moved into investment sales. Jared joined in 2018 with a fresh entrepreneurial streak. Together they built the hotel practice out of Marcus & Millichap's Minneapolis office — the foothold that became this region's hotel brokerage coverage.

    Eight years and 74 closings later, clients and hotel investors started asking the same question: why don't you open your own?

    The answer is that we can run leaner, use the same tools, and layer in AI to serve this market better and add liquidity to it — serving the same clients and the same markets without routing excess fees from rural Minnesota to Wall Street shareholders.

    What we bring is specialized market knowledge, a modern brokerage platform, and direct access to owners who take our calls.

    Track record matters. We are personally at the tours, qualifying buyers on the seller's behalf, and at the table on closing day. Deals are driven by direct engagement — emails, phone calls, and informed conversations.