HVS Brokerage & Advisory sold the 52-key Best Western Houston Bush IAH Intercontinental Airport Inn at 18032 McKay Drive in Humble, Texas, and announced the closing on 14 September 2026. TAK Hospitality LLC of San Antonio bought the hotel from Nataraja LLC of Conroe. The property was built in 2008. The release states no sale price, and no per-key figure or capitalization rate appears in it.
The closing is the fourth sale the firm has announced at a hotel named for George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The firm announces its closings, so the corridor's trading pattern is readable from its own pages.
The Corridor in the Firm's Own Record
The firm's sitemap lists 173 news items. Ninety-nine of the 173 carry the word sale in their own address, and 38 name Houston or Humble. Thirty-seven of those 38 are sale announcements, and the Best Western item is the one that is not.
Four of the 173 are named for the airport itself. Homewood Suites by Hilton Houston IAH Airport, 64 keys, closed on 13 April 2022. Four Points by Sheraton Houston Intercontinental Airport, 123 keys, closed on 4 November 2022. Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton Houston North IAH Airport, 82 keys, closed on 14 August 2024. The Best Western closed on 14 September 2026. The four span four years and five months.
Two Humble Closes in One Year
The firm announced the sale of the 90-key Staybridge Suites Houston - Humble Beltway 8 East on 8 May 2026. That hotel stands at 4819 Canyon Lakes Trace Drive in Humble and was built in 2018. Sahkar Hospitality Corporation of La Mirada, California bought it from Fresh Start Hospitality LLC of Houston.
The Best Western closed 129 days later, and both assets sit in Humble.
How the Corridor Reached Buyers
Three of the four airport-named sales went to market on the Ten-X online auction platform. The Homewood Suites drew more than 300 confidentiality agreements and 27 fully approved bidders, and four of them bid once the reserve was met. The Four Points was listed for a Ten-X auction and an institutional buyer's preemptive offer was accepted before the auction opened. The Hampton sale drew more than 200 confidentiality agreements and more than 15 approved bidders.
The seller's principal on the Hampton sale gave his reason in the firm's own release. "We didn't receive many offers through traditional marketing methods due to the overall softness of the Houston market," said Amir Ali Zindani, principal of XE Hospitality, and the auction produced a buyer with 10 percent non-refundable earnest money.
The 2026 Best Western release names no auction platform and reports no bid count.
What the Buyers Brought
The buyers the corridor's releases name came from four states. Magnolia Hospitality Group of Dallas took the Homewood Suites. Auerbach III Houston-Hospitality I LLC of Washington, D.C. took the Four Points. RVS Hospitality Group LLC of Newark, Delaware took the Hampton Inn & Suites. Schreiner and Kwon Inc. of Richland, Washington took the 80-key Holiday Inn Express & Suites Houston NASA - Boardwalk Area on 24 March 2026. Mickle & Lucky Estates LLC of Anaheim, California took the 91-key Holiday Inn Express & Suites Houston East - Baytown on 11 December 2025. Sahkar Hospitality Corporation of La Mirada, California took the Humble Staybridge Suites. TAK Hospitality LLC of San Antonio took the Best Western.
The franchise and management moves sit in the same releases. The Homewood Suites qualified for a new 15-year franchise license with Hilton at closing. The Four Points buyer secured a long-term franchise license with Marriott and installed GF Hotels & Resorts as the manager. The Hampton buyer was an out-of-state, first-time hotel investor.
The financing instruments are published too. On the May 2026 Humble Staybridge, five competitive offers arrived, four from West Coast buyers and one from Dallas, and the firm chose a 1031-exchange investor whose SBA 504 loan still closed the deal in three months at the contract price. On the Baytown sale the firm structured a loan assumption to get the contract across the finish line.
The Demand Base the Airport Is Funding
Houston Airports measured more than 48 million passengers at IAH in 2025. International traffic reached a record 12.4 million travelers, up 2.5 percent on 2024.
Mayor John Whitmire and Houston City Council approved $129.9 million in airport system funding on 2 September 2026 for seven infrastructure projects at IAH, and authorized an agreement with United Airlines to deliver the work. The program totals $229.9 million. The initial appropriation splits into $100 million from the Airport System Consolidated 2011 Construction Fund and $29.907 million from the Airports Improvement Fund, and Houston Airports expects to request the remaining $100 million in fiscal year 2028. No City General Fund dollars and no local tax revenue fund it.
Three of the seven projects touch the ground around the corridor hotels. The program builds an 8,100-space off-site parking lot for United and other airport employees with a 3,000-square-foot administration building, doubles the Terminal A/B Garage entrance lanes from two to four, and expands the airfield entry checkpoints.
The HVS release attaches nearly $130 million in approved funding to the hotel's location and names United Airlines' new $200-million maintenance facility as part of that work. The airport's own list carries seven projects and no maintenance facility. The $200 million figure carries a Houston Chronicle headline dated 20 February 2020, and United's most recent IAH facility investment is the $177 million ground service equipment facility it broke ground on in March 2025.
What the Corridor's Releases Do Not State
No release reviewed here states a sale price, a per-key figure or a capitalization rate for the Best Western, and none states its occupancy, average daily rate or revenue. The published figures across the corridor are room counts, addresses, build years, buyer and seller names, franchise terms and financing instruments.