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U.S. Hotel Transactions, April 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 trade: Ashford exits the Embassy Suites Palm Beach Gardens for $40M

April's largest single hotel trade in our data was the Embassy Suites by Hilton Palm Beach Gardens on PGA Boulevard, which a local investor bought for $40 million. It leads the priced table below; here is what the record shows, each step sourced.

Ashford Hospitality Trust sold the Embassy Suites by Hilton Palm Beach Gardens PGA Boulevard, a full-service hotel in northern Palm Beach County, for $40 million. The buyer is an entity led by Joe Lubeck, CEO of American Landmark Apartments, a South Florida multifamily owner-operator expanding into hospitality. (Source: Commercial Observer)

The sale is part of Ashford Hospitality Trust's continued deleveraging, shedding non-core hotels to pay down debt. Local investors closed the purchase in April; the trade press reported the deal across several outlets in the week of April 9. (Source: Hotel Management)

Every April 2026 hotel trade in one table

Every priced hotel trade the public record and the trade press surfaced for April, 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 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.

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.

April's largest deals, in brief

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

• Embassy Suites by Hilton Palm Beach Gardens PGA Boulevard · Palm Beach Gardens, FL$40M
  Ashford Hospitality Trust sold the Embassy Suites by Hilton Palm Beach Gardens on PGA Boulevard for $40 million to an entity led by Joe Lubeck, CEO of South Florida multifamily owner American Landmark, as the REIT continued to shed non-core hotels to pay down debt.
• Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark · Queensbury, NY$25.48M
  EPR Properties recorded a $25.48 million deed on April 6 for the Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark in Queensbury, New York, part of EPR's larger sale-leaseback of experiential real estate; the figure is the recorded real estate consideration for the lodge.
• Rodeway Inn South Miami - Coral Gables · South Miami, FL$23M
  A 117-room hotel at 5959 SW 71st Street in South Miami recorded a $23 million deed on April 28 in the Miami-Dade property records, with ALTA SOMI I LLC taking title; the sale did not surface in the hotel trade press.
• Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center · SeaTac, WA$18M
  The Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center at 17620 International Boulevard in SeaTac sold for $18 million according to King County records, trading into local hands with a renovation planned; the buyer and seller were not disclosed.
• Embassy Suites by Hilton Cleveland-Independence · Independence, OH$15.4M
  The 271-room Embassy Suites by Hilton Cleveland-Independence on Rockside Woods Boulevard recorded a $15.4 million deed on April 16 in the Cuyahoga County fiscal office records, less than half its previous sale price as American Hotel Income Properties divested the asset.
• Ramada Nashville-Atrium Way · Nashville, TN$11.05M
  A Ramada on Atrium Way in Nashville recorded an $11.05 million deed on April 29 in the Metro Nashville / Davidson County assessor's records.

Through the Grapevine

Unpriced transactions

Named ownership changes the trade press reported in April 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.

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

Most of April's recorded deed sales never surfaced in the hotel trade-press screen. The $23 million Rodeway Inn in South Miami, the $11.05 million Ramada and $10.63 million Hyatt Place in Nashville, the $9.75 million La Quinta at the Mall of America in Bloomington, and the $9.65 million Candlewood Suites in Fort Myers 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.