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U.S. Hotel Transactions, June 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 Waldorf Astoria Washington DC

June's largest recorded trade sits at the end of an unusually well-documented chain of ownership. The hotel occupies the Old Post Office Building at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, a federally owned landmark. Here is the chain that led to June's recorded transfer, each step sourced.

The building is federally owned and managed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). In 2013 the GSA leased it for 60 years to DJT Holdings LLC, a holding company Donald Trump owned through a revocable trust. (Source: Wikipedia)

Developed as the Trump International Hotel Washington DC, the property opened on September 12, 2016 and closed on May 11, 2022. That year the leasehold was sold to CGI Merchant Group for a reported $375 million, and the property reopened as the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC on June 1, 2022, operated under Hilton's Waldorf Astoria brand. (Sources: Wikipedia, Bisnow, Hilton)

CGI defaulted on its acquisition loan in February 2024. The lender, BDT & MSD Partners, filed a foreclosure notice in May 2024 and took control of the leasehold at an August 5, 2024 auction with a $100 million credit bid and no competing bids; about $256.6 million was owed on the original $285 million loan. (Source: Bisnow)

In June 2026 the GSA sold the underlying building and land, the fee, to BDT & MSD Partners. The Wall Street Journal reported the price at $80 million; the GSA did not disclose a figure. Because BDT & MSD already held the long-term leasehold from the 2024 auction, the sale consolidated the fee and the leasehold in a single owner, and the $80 million reflects a fee that was still encumbered by that very lease. The GSA described the sale as part of its effort to reduce the federal government's real estate holdings. HotelHinge's deed record shows the transfer recorded on June 11, 2026. (Sources: WTOP, Fox Business)

With the fee and leasehold now combined into one unencumbered asset, the owner is reported to be exploring a sale. Several prospective buyers have expressed interest, with discussions centering on a valuation of around $400 million, according to the Wall Street Journal as carried by WTOP and Yahoo Finance. That figure is a reported valuation in discussions, not a fixed asking price, and no such sale appears in the public record. (Sources: WTOP, Yahoo Finance)

Every June 2026 hotel trade in one table

Every priced hotel trade the public record and the trade press surfaced for June, 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 June deed, each linked to the article that reported it. The census screens deed and assessor filings inside its markets, and recording lags the closing (some trades are also 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; foreclosures are listed under Distress, at debt not 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.

June's largest deals, in brief

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

• Hyatt Regency San Francisco · San Francisco, CA$279M
  Sunstone Hotel Investors agreed to sell the 821-room Hyatt Regency San Francisco, on the Embarcadero, to funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate for $279 million. The deal was announced June 23 and is expected to close in the third quarter.
• Waldorf Astoria Washington DC · Washington, DC$80M
  The federal government sold the fee interest in the Old Post Office Building, home to the Waldorf Astoria, to BDT & MSD Partners, which already held the property's long-term leasehold; the deed recorded June 11 at $80 million. See the lead story above for the full chain of ownership.
• Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown · Austin, TX$26.9M
  Ashford Hospitality Trust sold the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Austin to JMI Realty for $26.85 million as the REIT continued to sell assets.
• Fairfield by Marriott Orlando East/UCF Area · Orlando, FL$15.4M
  A Fairfield by Marriott near the University of Central Florida recorded a $15.35 million deed on June 3 in the Orange County property records; it drew no trade-press coverage.
• Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee Airport · Milwaukee, WI$13.4M
  The 143-room Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee Airport sold for $13.4 million; a Raymond Management Company affiliate sold it to THG HGIMKE LLC.
• Hilton Garden Inn Jacksonville JTB/Deerwood Park · Jacksonville, FL$11.3M
  Ashford Hospitality Trust sold the 119-room Hilton Garden Inn near St. Johns Town Center in Jacksonville to MACO Management for $11.3 million, closing June 11.

Through the Grapevine

Unpriced transactions

Named ownership changes the trade press reported in June 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 resort, lodge, or hotel attached to a casino or amusement wrapper is treated as a hotel.

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

Two large Austin hotels went back to their lenders in June foreclosure auctions. Neither is an arm's-length sale, so both are kept out of the priced table above and listed here; the dollar figures below are DEBT, not sale prices.

• Foreclosure auctionThe LINE Austin, Austin, TX. The 428-room Line Austin returned to its lender at a June foreclosure auction after its owner defaulted; the roughly $172 million figure is the defaulted mortgage debt, not a sale price. Its sister property, the downtown Hyatt Centric, was taken back in the same window. (The Line, Hyatt Centric go back to lenders in foreclosure auction · The Real Deal)
• ForeclosureHyatt Centric Congress Avenue Austin, Austin, TX. Lenders foreclosed on the downtown Austin Hyatt Centric, with a Peachtree Group affiliate taking title; the roughly $50.5 million figure is the debt, not a sale price. (Lenders foreclose on Hyatt Centric hotel in downtown Austin · Austin Business Journal)

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

Of June's four recorded sales, only the Waldorf Astoria drew trade-press coverage. The other three, the Fairfield by Marriott in Orlando ($15.35M), the Super 8 in Union Gap, WA ($5.5M), and the Baymont in Canton, OH ($4.18M), did not surface in the June hotel trade-press screen at all; each appears in this report only because it was recorded in the county deed record. That long tail of smaller hotel trades, invisible to 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.