What the bench is writing.
Editorial, research, profiles, deal-desk write-ups and the Editor's letters. Every article belongs to one cohort — pick a cohort to read deeply, or scroll the latest below.
Research & Reports
Quarterly market data, valuation benchmarks and sector reports drawn from The Brain.
Profiles & Interviews
Operators, brokers and advisors — long-form conversations about how the businesses actually run.
Company News
Bench moves, listings won, settlements closed, and the firm's structural decisions.
Editor's Desk
The Informer's editor, on what to read closely this month and why.
Guides & Advice
How-to writing for buyers, sellers and operators. Lighter than Made Easy; more practical than research.
Industry Trends
What's moving in the asset classes — visa cohorts, lender appetite, CapEx cycles, regulatory drift.
Deal Desk
Behind-the-scenes on settled transactions — the structure, the negotiation, the lessons.
The bench picks.
Motel Report 2026.
Quarterly market data on the motel asset class — yields, deal counts, and where the pricing pressure is moving.
Editor's letter — Issue 112.
The Informer's editor on what to read closely in this month's issue, and why the Park Report inside is the most important piece we have run all year.
Alex Cook on resilience and the long deal.
The Director of our Hotels desk on what changes when a transaction takes 14 months instead of four — and why that's often the right outcome.
Across every desk.
Park Report Q1 2026.
Land-use rezoning, lender appetite for cabin upgrades, and the reset in caravan-park yields. The full quarterly.
Motel Report 2026.
Quarterly market data on the motel asset class — yields, deal counts, and where the pricing pressure is moving.
Editor's letter — Issue 112.
The Informer's editor on what to read closely in this month's issue, and why the Park Report inside is the most important piece we have run all year.
Alex Cook on resilience and the long deal.
The Director of our Hotels desk on what changes when a transaction takes 14 months instead of four — and why that's often the right outcome.
Buying your first MR — what nobody tells you.
The five things that make or break a Management Rights deal, and the order they will hit you in.
Visa cohorts and what they mean for backpacker demand.
Working-holiday-visa intakes for 2026 are tracking 18% above pre-COVID. The implications for backpacker occupancy are not small.
Year 40. The next chapter starts here.
ResortBrokers turns 40 in 2026. Trudy Crooks on what the firm is doing to mark it — and why the gift to the industry is operator support, not a marketing campaign.
Deal Desk · Pacific Drive Motel.
A vendor we waited two years for. A buyer we found in three weeks. The structure that made it work.