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U.S. Hotel Transactions, March 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: the $835M JW Marriott Marco Island sale, a Southwest Florida record

March's largest hotel trade in our data - and the biggest single real estate transaction in Southwest Florida history - was the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort, which went under contract in a reported $835 million deal. It leads the priced table below; here is what the record shows, each step sourced.

A joint venture of Sculptor Real Estate (Sculptor Diversified Real Estate Income Trust) and Trinity Investments agreed to buy the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort, together with two nearby 18-hole golf courses, from MassMutual for $835 million. The buyer disclosed the pending transaction in a March SEC filing; JLL arranged the sale and $690 million in financing. (Source: Hotel Dive)

The $835 million price is the largest single real estate transaction on record in Southwest Florida and ranks among the biggest hotel trades in the country this year. The deal was set in March and closed in May; the resort retains Marriott management under the new ownership. (Source: Gulfshore Business)

Every March 2026 hotel trade in one table

Every priced hotel trade the public record and the trade press surfaced for March, 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 March deed in our markets, 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, and a lender credit-bid at foreclosure is noted under Distress (its dollar figure is debt, not a sale price).

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.

March's largest deals, in brief

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

• JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort · Marco Island, FL$835M
  A Sculptor Real Estate and Trinity Investments joint venture agreed to buy the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort and two adjacent golf courses from MassMutual for $835 million, the largest single real estate transaction in Southwest Florida history. The deal was set in March and closed in May; JLL arranged the sale and $690 million in financing.
• 21c Museum Hotel Nashville · Nashville, TN$70M
  A 21c Hotel property in Nashville recorded a $70 million deed on March 20 in the Metro Nashville / Davidson County assessor's records, the month's largest recorded hotel sale.
• AMTD Idea Tribeca Hotel · New York, NY$69M
  The Generation Essentials Group, a subsidiary of AMTD Digital, completed its acquisition of the 151-key former Hilton Garden Inn Tribeca from Hersha Hospitality for $69 million, closing March 9, and plans to rebrand it as an art-focused hotel.
• Studio 6 Suites Las Vegas - Tropicana · Paradise, NV$31.5M
  A Studio 6 Suites near the Tropicana in Las Vegas recorded a $31.5 million deed on March 1 in the Clark County assessor's records.
• Sheraton Raleigh Hotel · Raleigh, NC$27.75M
  White Lodging bought the 353-room Sheraton Raleigh Hotel next to the Raleigh Convention Center for about $27.75 million per Wake County deed records, roughly 42% below the $47.85 million the Buccini/Pollin Group paid in 2015, and plans a renovation and a conversion to the Westin brand.
• Four Points by Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport Westshore · Tampa, FL$26M
  The Four Points by Sheraton Suites near the Tampa airport recorded a $26 million deed on March 24 in the Hillsborough County property records.

Through the Grapevine

Unpriced transactions

Named ownership changes the trade press reported in March 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 property moved through distress in March. The dollar figure below is debt recovered at a lender credit-bid, not an arm's-length sale price, and it is not counted in the month's trade totals.

• ForeclosureRenaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, MD. The 622-room Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel was bought back by its lender at a foreclosure auction for $30 million on March 11, after owner Buccini/Pollin Group defaulted on a $71 million loan. An affiliate of the lender (DF VII REIT Holdings, tied to Torchlight Investors) was the sole bidder; the trustee opened bidding at $30 million. The $30 million is a credit-bid debt figure, not a sale price, so the hotel is listed here rather than in the priced table. (Downtown hotel bought back by lender at auction for $30M · Baltimore Fishbowl)

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

Most of March's recorded deed sales never surfaced in the hotel trade-press screen. The $70 million 21c Hotel in Nashville, the $31.5 million Studio 6 near the Las Vegas Tropicana, the $26 million Four Points by Sheraton at the Tampa airport, the paired $10.9 million SpringHill Suites and $9.4 million Hampton Inn at the Minneapolis Mall of America, and the $5.9 million GreenTree Inn in Mesa each appears in this report because it was recorded in a county deed or assessor record. That long tail of 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.