An entity tied to the Church of Scientology has quietly picked up the former Mama Shelter hotel at 6500 Selma Avenue in Hollywood for $16 million. The six-story building, with roughly 70 guest rooms and a rooftop bar looking out toward the Hollywood Hills, shut down in February 2025 and went into receivership the following month. The mid-April sale pulls the boutique property out of a yearlong, court-supervised limbo and marks another major real estate shuffle along the Selma corridor.
Berkadia, the investment-sales firm that ran the receivership auction, said it oversaw the marketing and negotiations, pitching the hotel to both national and regional investors and leaning on its rooftop and transit access as selling points. Berkadia confirmed the receiver-driven sale and the building’s 70-key profile in a mid-April announcement.
Sale price and market context
The hotel traded for about $16 million, or roughly $229,000 per key, a price below the 2025 Los Angeles County average, according to Atlas Hospitality Group…..