The Kortz Center Heist in Short: A Weekly Art Robbery Built Around One Big First Sale
The Kortz Center Heist is GTA Online’s art-theft heist, released on 14 July 2026 in Title Update 1.73. You rob the Albert Crisp Collection at the Kortz Center in Pacific Bluffs, and you can run it solo or with up to three other players.
Hosting is the expensive part. You need a Mansion from Prix Luxury Real Estate — prices start at GTA$11,500,000 — plus the Art Studio expansion at GTA$4,700,000, so GTA$16,200,000 minimum if you own neither.
The payout works differently from older heists. The first Primary Target painting you sell after each weekly reset pays its full boosted value; further sales that week fall to roughly a quarter under what Rockstar calls buyer fatigue.
Rockstar has not published a complete permanent payout table for every rotating painting and difficulty, so the figures below are community-recorded values from completed runs, checked at the time of writing. Treat them as current observations, not guarantees, and always read the value on your own planning board before you commit.
Key Takeaways
- Hosting requires a Mansion (from GTA$11,500,000) plus the Art Studio expansion (GTA$4,700,000); crew members need neither.
- The mandatory story target, La Dernière Débauche, pays GTA$1,925,000 on its first sale after the weekly reset and GTA$481,250 on repeat sales that week.
- The first setup started after the weekly reset is free; additional setups cost GTA$100,000.
- There are four entry points — Staff Entrance, Skylight, Loading Bay and Sewer — and each must be photographed during the scope-out before it can be used.
- The Elite Challenge pays GTA$50,000 on Normal or GTA$100,000 on Hard, and the separate Buyer’s Request bonus pays the same again, so both together add up to GTA$200,000 on Hard.
- One Secondary Target room, the Crisp Gallery, needs two players to open, which can block a solo player’s Buyer’s Request and Elite Challenge on some setups.
1. What You Need to Host: A Mansion and the Art Studio
Start in Freemode and wait for a call from Raf De Angelis. If you do not own a Mansion yet, buy one from Prix Luxury Real Estate first: the Tongva Estate is the cheapest at GTA$11,500,000, the Vinewood Residence is GTA$12,200,000, and the Richman Villa is GTA$12,800,000 and sits closest to the Kortz Center.
Then add the Art Studio through your Mansion’s renovation options for GTA$4,700,000 at the standard price. Launch-period discounts from the Fine Art Collector program have ended, so budget the full price unless your account shows a current offer.
Visit the Art Studio — entered directly at the Mansion entrance or from Basement Level 2 — and a cutscene introduces Mr. Faber, Raf, and Yong-Rae, the counterfeiter who forges replica paintings to replace the ones you steal. After that, the planning board is yours.
Register as a CEO or MC President before using the board. Only the host needs the property: anyone can join a crew without owning a Mansion or an Art Studio, exactly as Rockstar’s launch post describes.
2. The Scope-Out: Where the Whole Heist Is Decided
The scope-out is a repeatable intel run, and rushing it is the most common mistake. You enter the Kortz Center as a visitor, reach the security office, upload your Mansion AI to the CCTV system and work through every camera feed.
The vault camera reveals your Primary Target painting and the loot around it. Other feeds and the grounds outside reveal your Secondary Targets, the delivery truck that unlocks an optional prep, and points of interest tied to further optional work.
Outside, you photograph the four entry points themselves. An entry point you never photograph never appears on your planning board, so a lazy scope-out quietly deletes options from your finale.
The scope-out also generates your Buyer’s Request: a list from Raf of specific items the buyer wants recovered. Check where those items sit before you go any further, because their locations decide whether a solo Elite run is even possible on that setup.
3. Payouts: Paintings, Buyer Fatigue and the Weekly Reset
Your Primary Target is a painting, and its value is set when it is sold, not when you start the setup. The first sale after the Thursday weekly reset receives the boosted value; selling another primary before the next reset triggers buyer fatigue and pays roughly a quarter as much.
The mandatory story target, La Dernière Débauche, must be sold — it cannot be kept for display. Recorded values put its first sale at GTA$1,925,000 and additional sales before the reset at GTA$481,250.
Rotating targets recorded so far include Mi O Melee at GTA$1,268,000 for a first Normal sale (GTA$317,000 on a repeat), The Downfall of Rome at GTA$1,342,000 for a first Hard sale (GTA$335,500 on a repeat), and I, Fruit at GTA$1,372,800 for a first Hard sale (GTA$343,200 on a repeat). Repeat Normal sales of Consumato and I Hear Voices were recorded at GTA$308,000 and GTA$308,500.
Not every painting and difficulty combination has been recorded yet, and Rockstar publishes no full table. If your board shows a target with no widely recorded value, trust the board’s figure rather than any guide’s guess.
Secondary Targets fatten the take. The scoped secondary pool across a full layout has been recorded at roughly GTA$2,300,000 to GTA$2,677,500 before bag and access limits — a pool value, not a promise, because each player carries one bag and some rooms need a crew.
Two bonuses sit on top. Recovering every item on the Buyer’s Request list pays GTA$50,000 on Normal or GTA$100,000 on Hard, and the Elite Challenge pays the same amounts again. A documented solo Hard run on The Downfall of Rome totalled GTA$1,809,000: GTA$1,342,000 for the boosted primary, GTA$267,000 in secondary loot, and GTA$100,000 from each bonus.
Eligible rotating paintings can also be displayed in your Art Studio instead of sold. That is a collector’s choice, not a money choice — displaying pays nothing, so sell your first painting of the week and consider displaying a repeat.
There is no legitimate shortcut around the weekly structure, and no cheat changes it. If that surprises you, why there is no money cheat in GTA games explains the design honestly.
4. Entry Points: All Four, and the Gear Each One Needs
The Staff Entrance is the door the game leads you to first, beside the Bell Building’s exhibition entrance. Its matching prep is the Staff Key Card, and it is the simplest, most direct way in.
The Skylight is reached from the Bell Building roof via the exterior stairs, and its matching prep is Tactical Equipment. Testers note the Skylight route also switches off the awkward moving camera on the exhibition room’s ground floor.
The Loading Bay is the ground-level delivery entrance, revealed on CCTV and photographed at the ramp near the parking lot. Its matching prep is the Alpha Mail Disguise, and it starts you close to the basement and the vault level.
The Sewer entry runs through the manhole cover in the hedge maze, and its matching prep is the Hazmat Suit. You will also need the manhole key, which spawns at one of several spots around the exterior during the scope-out.
Each entry pairs with exactly one Infiltration Gear prep, so choose your door before you choose your gear. Photograph all four anyway — having every door scoped costs minutes and keeps every future setup open.
5. Prep Work: Five Mandatory Jobs and Five Optional Ones
The planning board splits prep work into categories. Infiltration Gear, Unmarked Weapons and Getaway Vehicle are single-pick categories: you complete one job from each. The weapons choices are the Street, Security and Military loadouts; the getaway choices are the Manchez bikes, the Armored Caracara and the Annihilator Stealth helicopter.
Equipment holds two fixed jobs, and both are mandatory: the Access Code and the Hacking Device. Together with the scope-out, that makes five mandatory prep missions before the finale unlocks.
Five optional preps are unlocked by photographing the right points of interest: Guard Shipments, Guard Routes, Glass Cutter, Power Drills and EMP Charges. Guard Shipments and Guard Routes are the broadly useful pair; the rest pay off on specific routes and loot plans.
Your other properties quietly help, as Rockstar’s launch post confirms. A Mansion Armory adds a Mk II weapon to each loadout, an Agency, the Darnell Bros Garment Factory or a Terrorbyte grants extra time on the vault target, and an Arcade with a Drone Station provides Nano Drones in the finale. None of these change the painting’s payout — they change how forgiving the run feels.
6. The Best Approach: Loading Bay with the Alpha Mail Disguise
Unlike the Diamond Casino Heist, this heist has no named approach menu. Your approach is the combination you build: entry point, infiltration gear, loadout and getaway vehicle. On current tested runs, one combination leads the field for most players.
The Loading Bay entry with the Alpha Mail Disguise is the strongest general pick, and the best solo route. You drive in disguised as a delivery driver, pass the first guards unchallenged, and start near the basement level and the primary target, which protects your time and accuracy on Elite attempts.
The main alternatives are the Skylight with Tactical Equipment, a clean stealth line through the roof, and the Sewer with the Hazmat Suit and Manchez bikes, the route used by several published full-stealth Elite runs. The Staff Entrance with the Staff Key Card remains the beginner-friendly default while you learn the building.
For the getaway, the Annihilator Stealth’s rooftop extraction cuts escape time sharply, while the Armored Caracara is the forgiving ground option. Match the vehicle to your entry: a sewer entry pairs naturally with bikes waiting outside, a roof plan pairs with the helicopter.
Whichever combination you pick, stealth protects money here. Rockstar’s own launch post warns that art known to be stolen sells for less, and witnesses and surviving security footage work against your yield — a loud, sloppy finale is a pay cut you give yourself.
7. The Elite Challenge: Four Conditions, No Partial Credit
The Elite Challenge pays GTA$50,000 on Normal, and a recorded completed solo Hard run paid GTA$100,000. All four conditions must be met in the same finale; missing one forfeits the bonus entirely.
Finish in under 17 minutes. Keep your shooting accuracy above 90%. Lose less than GTA$15,000 of loot value to damage. And collect every item on the Buyer’s Request list.
The fourth condition is the trap. If a requested item spawns inside the Crisp Gallery on Exhibit Level 2, that room needs two players to open, and a solo Elite run is impossible on that setup no matter how well you play.
That is why experienced players read the Buyer’s Request during the scope-out, before investing in preps. If the list is blocked, either bring a second player for that run or treat it as a normal payout run and save your Elite attempt for a friendlier layout.
The Buyer’s Request bonus itself is separate from Elite: complete the list and you are paid for it even if you miss the time or accuracy marks. Hitting all four conditions pays both bonuses, which is where the extra GTA$200,000 on a clean Hard run comes from.
8. Cooldowns, Repeat Runs and How to Plan Your Week
One honest gap first: no verified, published cooldown figure for this heist could be confirmed from official sources at the time of writing, and guides disagree on repeat setup costs in some cases. The planning fee recorded consistently across completed runs is clear, though — your first setup after the weekly reset is free, and additional setups cost GTA$100,000.
In practice, the weekly reset is the real timer. Because the first primary sale of the week pays roughly four times a repeat sale, the profitable rhythm is one well-prepared run per week: scope thoroughly, pick your best entry, and protect the bonuses.
Repeat runs in the same week still pay — a few hundred thousand for the painting at fatigue values, plus whatever secondary loot and bonuses you earn — but judge them against your other earners. A Nightclub, an Acid Lab, an Agency or a Bunker can all work while this heist waits for Thursday.
It is also worth knowing what this money does not do. Nothing announced moves your GTA Online bank balance into the next game, which is why will GTA Online progress carry over to GTA 6 matters before you grind for a mansion on that basis alone.
For the future game itself, how heists and robberies work in GTA 6 covers only what is confirmed or reported about Leonida, and will GTA 6 Online have heists tracks a mode Rockstar has still not announced. Enjoy the Kortz Center as what it is: the current game’s richest weekly art run for players who already own the mansion life.
Frequently Asked Questions
When was The Kortz Center Heist released?
It released on 14 July 2026 as part of Title Update 1.73, across PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Rockstar announced it on the Newswire the same day, built around the Albert Crisp Collection in the Kortz Center’s Bell Building.
What do you need to host The Kortz Center Heist?
A Mansion from Prix Luxury Real Estate, starting at GTA$11,500,000, plus the Art Studio expansion at GTA$4,700,000 — GTA$16,200,000 in total if you own neither. Crew members can join without owning either property.
How much does The Kortz Center Heist pay?
The mandatory story painting, La Dernière Débauche, pays GTA$1,925,000 on its first sale after the weekly reset. Rotating paintings have recorded first sales between roughly GTA$1,268,000 and GTA$1,372,800, with secondary loot and up to GTA$200,000 in bonuses on top. All figures are community-recorded and update-sensitive.
Why did my painting sell for so much less the second time?
Buyer fatigue. The first Primary Target sold after the weekly reset gets the boosted value; further sales before the next reset pay roughly a quarter as much. The reset is on Thursday, with the rest of the weekly cycle.
What is the best approach for The Kortz Center Heist?
On current tested runs, entering through the Loading Bay with the Alpha Mail Disguise is the strongest general and solo choice, because it passes the first guards and starts you near the vault level. The Skylight and Sewer entries are proven stealth alternatives.
What are the four entry points?
The Staff Entrance (Staff Key Card), the Skylight (Tactical Equipment), the Loading Bay (Alpha Mail Disguise) and the Sewer (Hazmat Suit). Each one must be photographed during the scope-out before it appears on the planning board.
What are the Elite Challenge conditions?
Finish the finale in under 17 minutes, keep shooting accuracy above 90%, lose less than GTA$15,000 in loot value, and collect every item on the Buyer’s Request list. It pays GTA$50,000 on Normal or GTA$100,000 on Hard, on top of the separate Buyer’s Request bonus of the same amounts.
Can you do The Kortz Center Heist solo?
Yes, it supports one to four players. One limit matters: the Crisp Gallery room needs two players to open, so if a Buyer’s Request item spawns there, a solo player cannot complete the list or the Elite Challenge on that setup.
Can you keep a stolen painting instead of selling it?
Eligible rotating Primary Targets can be displayed in your Art Studio instead of sold. The mandatory story target, La Dernière Débauche, must be sold. Displaying pays nothing, so most players sell the boosted first painting of the week.
How much does each setup cost?
The first setup started after the weekly reset is free. Additional setups cost GTA$100,000 each. If a paid setup carries over the reset, the fee is not charged again, and the painting simply pays the new week’s first-sale value when sold.
The Bottom Line
The Kortz Center Heist rewards one careful run a week, not grinding. Scope everything, read the Buyer’s Request before you prep, enter through the Loading Bay in the Alpha Mail Disguise, and protect your time, accuracy and loot value for the stacked bonuses. For mansion owners it is the richest weekly painting sale in GTA Online; for everyone else, the GTA$16,200,000 entry price is the real heist.
