The Hokuten Group is a hotel brokerage and advisory practice at Keller
Williams Commercial, working with owners, operators and capital across the
United States, its Caribbean and Pacific territories, and Japan. Brokerage,
capital markets and M&A. Single-asset and portfolio.
$200M+ in career transaction volume across 12 hotel and hospitality
transactions, spanning current and prior affiliations. In all but one or two
the buyer came from inside the practice — represented directly, or sourced
from the database and brought to the table. CoStar Power Broker across 2025
and 2026, through a period of rising rates in which US hotel transaction
count fell by half.
Assignments have included joint-venture and equity-capital work, the M&A sale
of a hotel management company carrying more than 40 management contracts, a
lease-to-purchase structure that converted a year after the buyer took
operational control, a disposition negotiated directly with the lender out of
distress, and a fully off-market sale where a public listing was not an
option. Hotels lead; multifamily, mixed-use and development work follows the
relationship.
A growing share of the work is cross-border — Asian capital looking at US
hotel assets and US capital looking at Japan, with family offices on both
sides. The practice is deliberately small: a senior person on every call,
not the smallest account at a national platform. Japan-side transactions are
executed by locally licensed professionals.