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A Marquee Hotel in Every State: What the Public Record Shows

Published June 25, 2026 · 6 min read · Sourced to the public record

HotelHinge tracks U.S. hotels property-first, then attaches each one's public record: who owns it, what it is assessed at, and what it has sold for. To show what that looks like in aggregate, here is a read on a small slice of it, the single most notable hotel we feature in each state and DC. This is a curated sample, not a ranking of every hotel, but every number below is real and sourced.

$4.4 billion in assessed value, from the public roll

Of the 51 marquee hotels in the sample, 37 carry a public assessed value, and those values total about $4.4 billion, with a median near $43.6 million. Assessed value is not market value, and assessment practices differ by jurisdiction, but it is a public, consistent anchor, the starting point most buyers reach for before layering in income and comps (see How to Value a Hotel).

The most valuable in the set

The top of the assessed-value range is dominated by resorts and big-box urban hotels:

The biggest recorded sales

Twenty-five of the hotels in the sample have a recorded sale on file, together representing about $2.1 billion in transaction value. The largest is the JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes at $409 million (2015). The most recent large trade in the set is the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk at $200 million (November 2024). Others include the Westin Las Vegas (~$196M, 2018), the Hyatt Regency Portland (~$166M, 2019), and the Hyatt Regency Phoenix ($140M, 2018). Each carries a date, a price, and a source you can open, the same way comps are built in How to Find Hotel Sale Comps from Public Records.

What the mix says

By segment, the marquee sample skews where institutional capital concentrates: roughly 38 upper-upscale, 6 luxury, and 5 upscale hotels. That is what you would expect at the top of the market, and it is a reminder that "marquee" is a small slice. Most U.S. hotels are select-service and economy properties that rarely make headlines but trade constantly, which is exactly where a complete, property-first census earns its keep.

The honest caveat

This is 51 hotels, one per state and DC, chosen for notability, not a statistically representative read on the national market. The numbers are real and sourced, but do not read a national median into them. The full HotelHinge census covers tens of thousands of U.S. hotels; this is a window, not the whole building. For one property decoded in full, see What a Hotel's Public Record Reveals.