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U.S. Hotel Transactions, January 2026: What the Public Record Shows

Published Jul 8, 2026 · Sourced to the public record · Updated monthly

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Each month, HotelHinge pulls the hotel trades that have hit the U.S. public record, sets them against the census, and adds the deals the trade press reported but the deed record has not yet caught. Recorded figures come from county and municipal deed and assessor records, linked so you can verify them; reported figures are attributed to the outlet that carried them. The record accrues: deeds record with a lag, so a month keeps filling in after it closes, and this report is refreshed as trades appear.

The month's biggest story: a Blackstone company sells the La Jolla Embassy Suites for half its 2021 price

January's most notable hotel trade in our data was a large, institutional sale at a steep discount to its last purchase. It is a reported, arm's-length trade with a disclosed price, so it also leads the priced sales table below; here is what the trade press and the broker show, each step sourced.

Ascendant Capital Partners bought the 340-key Embassy Suites by Hilton San Diego La Jolla, at 4550 La Jolla Village Drive in the University Town Center submarket, for $111 million. JLL's Hotels & Hospitality group brokered the sale and announced it on January 7, 2026. (Source: JLL)

The seller was BioMed Realty, an entity tied to Blackstone, which had paid $215.6 million for the property in December 2021. The January price is close to half that figure, a marker of how far institutional hotel values in the market reset over the intervening years. Ascendant's co-founder said the firm plans roughly $20 million in guest-room and public-area improvements. (Source: Hotel Online)

Every January 2026 hotel trade in one table

Every priced hotel trade the public record and the trade press surfaced for January, in one table, sorted by price. Recorded rows are deed or assessor filings, each identified by its recording office and public record number; reported rows are arm's-length sales the trade press covered that had not yet filed a January deed, each linked to the article that reported it. Recording lags the closing and some trades are structured at the entity level and never file a property deed, so the recorded set is only part of the month's activity. Named deals with no disclosed price are listed separately under Through the Grapevine.

Recorded rows are county deed or assessor filings, each identified by its recording office and public record number; the parties are shown only where the county publishes them (many counties do not), never guessed. Reported rows are trades the trade press covered that had not yet filed a deed for the month, each linked to the article that reported it.

January's largest deals, in brief

The month's biggest priced transactions, each drawn from that deal's own sources.

• Embassy Suites by Hilton San Diego La Jolla · San Diego, CA$111M
  Ascendant Capital Partners bought the 340-key La Jolla Embassy Suites from BioMed Realty, a Blackstone company, for $111 million, roughly half the $215.6 million BioMed paid in December 2021. JLL brokered; Ascendant plans about $20 million in renovations.
• DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Phoenix Tempe · Tempe, AZ$27.5M
  The month's largest recorded deed sale: the DoubleTree by Hilton Phoenix Tempe changed hands for $27.5 million, filed in the Maricopa County assessor record on January 1.
• Crystal Beach Suites Miami Oceanfront Hotel · Miami Beach, FL$26M
  The Crystal Beach Suites oceanfront hotel in Miami Beach sold for $26 million, recorded in the Miami-Dade County deed record on January 13.
• Delta Hotels by Marriott West Palm Beach · West Palm Beach, FL$23.8M
  Activate Hospitality sold the 200-room Delta Hotels by Marriott West Palm Beach to an affiliate of Palm Holdings for $23.8 million less than two years after buying and rebranding it, in an off-market all-cash deal brokered by Kabani Hotel Group.
• SpringHill Suites by Marriott Atlanta Buckhead · Atlanta, GA$19.3M
  Hodges Ward Elliott brokered the sale of the 220-room SpringHill Suites Atlanta Buckhead to Blueleaf Capital and 3VP for about $19.3 million; the buyers plan a $9 million renovation.
• Holiday Inn Express Spokane-Downtown by IHG · Spokane, WA$18.5M
  The Holiday Inn Express Spokane-Downtown led a cluster of Spokane-area Holiday Inn Express and Fairfield trades recorded in the Spokane County sales record on January 5, at $18.47 million.

Through the Grapevine

Unpriced transactions

Named ownership changes the trade press reported in January with no disclosed price. These are not in the priced table above and carry no dollar figure; each is a named buyer or seller confirmed to a linked source.

A grapevine entry is a named acquisition the trade press carried without a disclosed price. HotelHinge lists it, unpriced, so the record is complete; no figure is shown or implied, and no grapevine deal is counted in the month's dollar totals above.

Distress pipeline

One large hotel went back to its lender in a January trustee's sale. It is not an arm's-length sale, so it is kept out of the priced table above and listed here; the dollar figure below is a credit bid against DEBT, not a sale price.

• Trustee's sale (credit bid)Marriott Tacoma Downtown, Tacoma, WA. The 304-room Marriott Tacoma Downtown reverted to its lender at a January 23 trustee's sale after developer Yareton Hotel Investment Management defaulted; an Acore/Delphi lender affiliate took title. The roughly $50 million figure is a credit bid applied to the debt (the notice listed about $76.3 million of principal and interest owed), not a sale price. (Acore Capital Acquires 304-Room Marriott Tacoma Downtown for $50MM Through Foreclosure Sale · The Registry)

What the deed record caught that the trade press didn't

Most of January's 27 recorded deed sales never surfaced in the hotel trade-press screen. The $13.7 million Hampton Inn & Suites at SeaWorld in Orlando, the $11.05 million Residence Inn in Baltimore's White Marsh, the $9.9 million Comfort Inn & Suites in north Tampa, the $7.7 million WoodSpring Suites in Doral, the $5.4 million Sea Foam Motel on the Outer Banks, the $2.44 million Econo Lodge in Brattleboro, and the $267,500 Park Motor Inn in the Adirondacks each appears in this report only because it was recorded in a county deed record. That long tail of smaller hotel trades, below the deal sheets, is what a property-by-property census is built to catch.

Where this sits in the U.S. hotel map

The month's trades are a live slice of a bigger picture: the HotelHinge census tracks 45,438 U.S. hotels across 51 markets, each with public-record ownership, sales, and financing attached to the property. This report is the free, monthly read on what is moving; the full property-level database is a login away.