Bilt and Wyndham Rewards Announce Points Transfer Partnership, Expanding the Industry's Largest 1:1 Transfer Partner Network

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 25, 2026--

Bilt, the membership for where you live, today announced a new partnership with Wyndham Rewards, hotel loyalty program of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world's largest hotel franchising company with over 8,300 hotels spanning more than 25 brands. Starting today, Bilt Members can transfer their Bilt Points to Wyndham Rewards at a 1:1 ratio, giving members access to one of the most generous and widely celebrated hotel loyalty programs in the world.

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The partnership marks Bilt's sixth hotel transfer partner and further extends what is already the largest 1:1 transfer partner network in the market built on a consistent principle: the quality of a member's travel experience depends directly on the quality of the partners behind it. With Wyndham Rewards, Bilt is expanding its hospitality platform for members with a variety of new options, ranging from easy stopovers to upscale resorts and all-inclusive escapes.

"Wyndham Rewards is one of the most beloved programs in hospitality, and for good reason," said Ankur Jain, Founder and CEO of Bilt. "Adding Wyndham as our newest hotel transfer partner means that whether you're planning a weekend road trip, a last-minute city escape, or a week-long all-inclusive getaway, your housing payment can help get you there. That's the whole idea: where you live should work for you in every part of your life, including how you travel."

Wyndham Rewards, consistently celebrated for both its simplicity and generosity, is the #1 rated hotel rewards program as named by readers of USA Today. With more than 122 million enrolled members worldwide, it offers one of the industry’s most straightforward earning and redemption structures: members earn 10 points per dollar on every qualified stay—with a guaranteed minimum of 1,000 points regardless of length or spend—and can redeem for free nights across three fixed redemption tiers, starting at just 7,500 points. And, discounted points plus cash nights start at just 750 points per night.

“Travel rewards work best when they’re simple and within reach,” said Charmaine Taylor, SVP of Financial Partnerships at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. “Partnering with Bilt introduces Wyndham Rewards to a growing network of engaged travelers while helping those travelers make the most of every point they earn.”

Bilt Members who transfer their points to Wyndham Rewards gain access to thousands of hotels, vacation club resorts, and vacation rentals worldwide—from trusted, value-centric brands like Days Inn ®, Super 8 ®, and La Quinta ®, to increasingly upscale and aspirational offerings across names like Dolce Hotels & Resorts ®, Wyndham Grand ®, and Registry Collection Hotels ®. Beyond free night redemptions, Wyndham Rewards members can also access:

Bilt Members can begin transferring their points today in 1,000-point increments, with a minimum transfer of 1,000 points. For more information about the partnership and how to transfer Bilt Points to Wyndham Rewards, visit www.bilt.com/p/wyndham.

About Bilt

Launched in 2021, Bilt is the membership for where you live and the hospitality platform powering the residential ecosystem around it. For members, Bilt makes where our members live the center of their lives – allowing them to earn rewards on housing payments, access neighborhood services, build a path to homeownership, and redeem points across a best-in-class travel and lifestyle ecosystem including airlines, hotels, boutique fitness studios, neighborhood restaurants, and more. For partners, from residential properties and neighborhood merchants to travel advisors, Bilt's hospitality platform provides the tools to deliver exceptional customer experiences and build deeper relationships with residents. The Bilt Alliance spans more than 6 million homes across the country, developed in partnership with some of the nation's largest residential owners and operators. Bilt boasts the highest value rewards currency on the market today. For more information, visit www.bilt.com.

About Wyndham Rewards

Part of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: WH), the world's largest hotel franchising company, Wyndham Rewards is the #1 hotel rewards program as named by readers of USA TODAY. Members—over 122 million enrolled around the world—earn a guaranteed 1,000 points with every qualified stay and can redeem for free nights starting at just 7,500 points. With thousands of hotels, vacation club resorts and vacation rentals globally, the program is widely recognized for being among one of the simplest and most generous in the industry. Join for free at WyndhamRewards.com.

Bilt and Wyndham Rewards Announce Points Transfer Partnership, Expanding the Industry's Largest 1:1 Transfer Partner Network

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Anti-graft investigators in South Africa have arrested 12 senior police officers on allegations of corruption and fraud, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The arrests come while an inquiry, ordered by President Cyril Ramaphosa, continues into allegations of high-ranking corruption in the South African police and which resulted in the suspension of the police minister last year.

A second inquiry, by Parliament, is also looking at claims that senior police officers had corrupt relationships with alleged crime bosses and in some cases allegedly received money from them for favors.

South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world and allegations of corruption within the police are not new.

The 12 arrests relate to an allegedly corrupt contract to provide health and well-being services to police officers, the National Prosecuting Authority’s anti-corruption investigative unit said in a statement.

The police officers made their first court appearance on Wednesday along with Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala, the owner of the Medicare24 company that was allegedly awarded the contract, who is suspected of links to organized crime.

Matlala is currently being held in a maximum-security prison on unrelated charges of attempted murder.

All the officers submitted affidavits in support of their bail applications and prosecutors indicated to the Pretoria Magistrates Court that they would not be opposing their bail.

Some of the officers arrested were part of the bid committee that evaluated and awarded the contract and prosecutors alleged on Wednesday that they should have disqualified the company’s application.

In July 2025, KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner Lt-Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi claimed that criminal syndicates and drug cartels had infiltrated the police service at the highest level.

Nearly seven months after the commission led by retired Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga started its hearings, and the lawmakers started their own probe, close relationships between alleged criminals and top police officials have been revealed.

Commissioners and lawmakers have been hearing evidence of alleged exchanges of money, and at times personal relationships, between high-ranking officers and individuals allegedly involved in organized crime.

A parliamentary committee has concluded its hearing, while the commission will resume its hearings next month.

In their testimonies before the commission and the parliamentary committee, Mkhwanazi and other police officers have accused suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu and deputy national commissioner Shadrack Sibiya as enablers of high-level wrongdoing.

Mchunu has been accused of illegally ordering the closure of a critical crime-fighting unit in order to protect alleged criminals which it was investigating, while Sibiya, who is also suspended, has been accused of receiving money and gifts from people linked to organized crime.

Ramaphosa has received the commission’s interim report, which recommends prompt criminal investigations against at least 14 individuals.

Some witnesses have asked to testify anonymously for fear of reprisals.

In February, a former police reservist — whose name was mentioned during the corruption inquiry — allegedly shot himself at a petrol station just days after he survived an alleged attempt on his life.

In November, a former traffic police department official gave harrowing in-camera testimony on allegations of torture and the illegal disposal of a body in a dam by police officials. Four of the 12 people named as persons of interest in the investigation into that killing are now dead, police said.

Weeks after giving his testimony, the former official was shot multiple times in front of his family outside their home in the south of Johannesburg.

FILE -South African riot police stand outside the great hall at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)