---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001232582-25-000131"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AHT"
cik: "0001232582"
company_name: "ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T10:09:43.324409+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ashford Hospitality Trust sells two hotels for combined $33M; cap rate ~1.3% on NOI

## Summary
- Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake sold for $27M; Residence Inn Evansville East sold for $6M.
- Combined sale price represents 1.3% cap rate (adj. for capex) or 45.3x Hotel EBITDA (12 months to July 31, 2025).
- CEO Stephen Zsigray says sales deleverage platform, improve MS 17 loan pool coverage, and increase cash flow after debt service.
- Company plans to pursue similar opportunistic sales in coming months.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001232582-25-000131
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AHT
- cik: 0001232582
- company_name: ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000131/0001232582-25-000131-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000131/aht-20250822.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001232582-25-000131.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC completed a disposition involving Nassau Bay Resorts LLC for $27 million in cash, subject to customary pro-rations and adjustments (closed 2025-08-22).
  - Action: disposition
  - Counterparty: Nassau Bay Resorts LLC
  - Consideration: $27 million in cash, subject to customary pro-rations and adjustments
  - Closing: 2025-08-22
  source text: On August 22, 2025, New Clear Lake Hotel Limited Partnership, an indirect subsidiary of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (the “ Company ”), completed the sale of the 242-room Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake hotel located in Houston, Texas pursuant to an Agreement of Purchase and Sale, dated as of March 28, 2025, by and between New Clear Lake Hotel Limited Partnership, as seller, and Nassau Bay Resorts LLC, as successor in interest by assignment from Ayrshire Nassau Bay LLC, as purchaser, for $27 million in cash, subject to customary pro-rations and adjustments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000131/0001232582-25-000131-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.