Hotel transaction intelligence, explained

The brand on the sign is rarely the owner of the building. The companies behind the Hyatt, Hampton, Westin and Four Seasons brands, and what the county record says about who owns four real hotels flying them.

A hotel transaction is a documented event, not a headline. What the record contains, which public sources carry it, how price, date, and parties are verified, and a worked example.

One marquee hotel per state and DC, by the public record: about $4.4B in assessed value, the most valuable property, and the biggest recorded sales. A real-data snapshot.

One real hotel, decoded layer by layer from the public record: specs, assessed value, the recorded sale and the entity that bought it, comps, and news.

The enterprise CRE data platforms price hotel comps for firms. The same sales, owners, and financing sit in the public record. Here is how to get them for a fraction of the cost.

The name on the door is rarely the owner on the deed. Here is how to trace a hotel's true owner through county records, assessor rolls, and entity filings.

RevPAR is the single number that tells you how a hotel is really performing. Here is what RevPAR, ADR, and occupancy mean, and how each one flows through to value.

A cap rate is just NOI divided by price, but for hotels it carries more weight than almost any other number. Here is how to read it, and where hotel cap rates sit in 2026.

There are three accepted ways to value a hotel, and serious buyers use all three. Here is how the income, comparable-sales, and cost approaches work, with the math.

You do not need an enterprise terminal to comp a hotel. Sale comps start in county deeds and assessor rolls. Here is how to find them, normalize them, and trust them.