HotelHinge  ·  The Hotel Census

U.S. Hotel Statistics: Ownership, Sales & CMBS Debt

As of July 10, 2026 · Compiled from public records · Free to cite

HotelHinge is a property-first census of American hotels: it starts from the property and attaches the public record to it - who owns it, what it sold for, and how it is financed. The numbers on this page are aggregates of that record. They are compiled only from public records and other lawfully accessible public sources, each figure is point-in-time and dated, and blanks are left honest rather than guessed. HotelHinge does not publish its own RevPAR, ADR, occupancy, or cap-rate figures.

The headline numbers

Each figure below is a live aggregate of the census as of the date shown. Where a figure is drawn from a specific class of public filing (CMBS remittance reports, REIT filings), that is noted in the source column.

Figures are point-in-time as of July 10, 2026 and update as the public record accrues. The hotel count (46,101) is the published census total; the CMBS and REIT figures are compiled from public securitization and REIT filings and are attributed as such, never restated as HotelHinge's own metrics.

Coverage

The census spans 46,101 U.S. hotels across 51 markets, the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Each property carries its identity and location, its physical characteristics from the assessor where available, its assessed value, and a transaction timeline. Coverage is built property by property from county and municipal records, which is why it reaches the long tail of smaller hotels that never appear in trade-press deal sheets, not only the marquee assets.

Ownership and REITs

371 hotels in the census are attributed to a public hotel REIT, across 13 REITs, based on public REIT filings. REIT ownership is a small, well-documented slice of the market: most U.S. hotels are held by private owners, single-purpose LLCs, and operating companies. The census records the named owning entity from the deed and, where a REIT or parent company discloses it, links the property up to that owner. REIT-reported figures are always attributed to the filing they come from.

Hotel CMBS debt

HotelHinge tracks $41.9 billion in current outstanding balance across 2,313 hotel-backed CMBS loans in 367 securitized deals, as reported in public CMBS filings for the latest remittance period; 2,193 hotels in the census carry attributed CMBS debt. These figures are compiled from public securitization filings (the loan- and property-level disclosures that accompany CMBS deals) and are attributed as reported in those filings. HotelHinge excludes rating-agency-created metrics and publishes no rating or credit opinion of its own.

Transactions on record

The census holds 8,982 priced hotel sales - recorded in county deed and assessor filings or reported in the trade press, each with its price and source - plus 2,479 loan-level financing events, and further acquisitions, conversions, openings, developments, and refinancings. Recorded sales date back to 1967. HotelHinge also publishes free monthly U.S. hotel transaction rundowns, summarized in the first-half 2026 roundup ($2.85B across 123 trades), each trade linked to its public source.