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Hyatt Hotels Sells Playa Hotels Real Estate Portfolio For $2B Tortuga Resorts; Can Achieve Up To An Additional $143M Earnout If Certain Operating Thresholds Are Met; Retains $200M Of Preferred Equity In Tortuga In Connection With The Transaction

Benzinga·12/30/2025 21:20:13
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Sale of Real Estate Achieves a Fully Asset-Light Transaction of Playa

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (the "Company") (NYSE:H) today announced the closing of the sale of the real estate portfolio previously acquired from Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V. ("Playa") to Tortuga Resorts ("Tortuga"), a premier real estate and asset management platform focused on luxury beachfront hospitality across Mexico and the Caribbean, for approximately $2 billion. Hyatt can achieve up to an additional $143 million earnout if certain operating thresholds are met and has retained $200 million of preferred equity in Tortuga in connection with the transaction.

The real estate portfolio originally involved 15 all-inclusive properties located across Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. As previously disclosed, Hyatt sold one of these properties to a separate third-party buyer on September 18, 2025, for $22 million. Between the completion of this earlier sale and the Tortuga transaction, Hyatt has sold the entire Playa real estate portfolio for a total of $2 billion. Concurrent with the real estate sale, Hyatt and Tortuga have entered into 50-year management agreements for 13 of the 14 properties in the portfolio, with terms consistent with Hyatt's existing all-inclusive management agreements. The remaining property is subject to a separate contractual arrangement.