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Hyatt completes $2b sale of Playa’s owned real estate portfolio to Tortuga
Transactions - DECEMBER 30, 2025

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Hyatt completes $2b sale of Playa’s owned real estate portfolio to Tortuga

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Hyatt Hotels Corp. has closed the sale of the real estate portfolio previously acquired from Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V. (Playa) to Tortuga Resorts, 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 enter

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