McKenna Luke
McKenna Luke, MAI, leads Partner Valuation Advisors’ National Hospitality Practice Group. Ms. Luke is responsible for driving the growth of the firm’s hospitality work related to appraisals, market studies, large portfolio engagements, and consulting assignments.
Ms. Luke has overseen and completed thousands of assignments spanning hospitality properties from small, independently owned motels to the most expensive resorts in the U.S. She brings extensive nationwide hotel consulting and valuation experience having worked in 45 states and valued roughly $9 billion of assets in 2023 alone, combining for a total of more than $30 billion in the last five years.
Ms. Luke has earned a reputation as a trusted advisor for hotel development and brings a deep understanding of hospitality markets, having consulted on complex assignments including portfolios, hotels, condo-hotels, resorts, resort residential, mixed-use, waterparks, golf, membership clubs, glamping, and experiential destinations. In addition to traditional hospitality work, she has conducted valuations of casino operations in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Pennsylvania, as well as ski resorts in California, Montana, North Carolina, and Canada.
Prior to joining Partner Valuation Advisors in 2024, Ms. Luke served as a Managing Director at HVS, where over a nearly 12-year period she directly completed or supervised thousands of appraisals throughout the Southwest and nationally, oversaw firm-wide appraisal standards, developed a training and development program, and managed client relations.
Ms. Luke graduated summa cum laude from the University of Denver, from which she later earned an MBA. She holds numerous state-certified general appraisal licenses and is a Designated Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI).