The Kortz Center Heist went live in GTA Online today — the first all-new heist since Cayo Perico in December 2020. It’s an art-museum robbery in Pacific Bluffs for 1–4 players, fully playable solo, run alongside hustler Raf De Angelis: scope the gallery, stack optional preps, then hit the vault for a rotating Primary Target painting. One thing up front: Rockstar has published no payout figures and community testing only started today, so any GTA$ take you see circulating right now is speculation. This guide sticks to what’s confirmed — we’ll add Kortz to the heist payout planner as soon as tested numbers settle, so check back.
What you need
This is the most expensive heist unlock in GTA Online history:
- A Prix Luxury mansion from December 2025’s A Safehouse in the Hills update — the Tongva Estate ($11,500,000), Vinewood Residence ($12,200,000) or Richman Villa ($12,800,000).
- The Art Studio expansion ($4,700,000), the planning hub bolted onto your mansion. Reaching Elitist status in the Fine Art Collector event (June 18 – July 13) knocks $1,000,000 off, and GTA+ members can stack another $1,000,000 discount.
That’s over $16M before you steal a single painting, so the buy-in is aimed squarely at established players sitting on Cayo money. If that’s not you, you can still join someone else’s Kortz crew without owning anything — and Cayo Perico or the near-free Salvage Yard robberies remain the smarter first investments. See which properties to buy first if you’re building toward the mansion.
Step 1: Scope out the Kortz Center
Launch the heist from your Art Studio, then visit the museum as an ordinary guest. Stroll the gallery, photograph paintings without alerting security, and send everything to Raf — each find during the scope directly expands your entry options, preps and lootable targets in the finale, so be thorough.
There are four entry points to discover:
- Staff Entrance — the default route. Photograph the restricted-area door around the right side of the building.
- Skylight — take the exterior stairs and ladder to the roof and photograph it.
- Loading Bay — hack the CCTV feed through the staff door, find the bay on camera, then photograph it from the parking lot.
- Sewer — in the middle of the hedge maze outside. This one needs the Manhole Key, found on a construction table near the Center (the spawn spot varies between runs).
While you’re in the CCTV feed, pan every camera fully — secondary targets and prep unlocks are hidden in the footage.
Step 2: Optional equipment preps
Five optional preps exist, and each is unlocked by something you spot while scoping:
- Guard Shipments — view the crates in the Loading Bay camera feed.
- Guard Routes — photograph the radio tower on the roof, left of the Skylight.
- Glass Cutter — photograph the display cases in the central gallery.
- Power Drills — pan the vault camera across to the lockboxes.
- EMP Charges — photograph the electrical box between the air ducts behind the Skylight.
None are mandatory, but each adds gear or intel that opens routes and loot in the finale. Completed equipment stockpiles in your Art Studio, and you pick a custom loadout from it before launching — so run all five before your first attempt.
Step 3: The finale
Your Primary Target is one painting from the Albert Crisp Collection in the vault, and the featured paintings rotate weekly — three are in the pool at launch, so repeat runs stay fresh. Secondary artwork is scattered through the galleries and stacks on top of the primary; grab whatever your scoped intel marked. One honest note for solo players: everything is doable alone except a separate Secondary Target room that Rockstar has locked behind having at least one crewmate.
Security is guards, CCTV and laser tripwires, and stealth matters beyond difficulty: avoid witnesses and erase camera footage on the way out, because art that’s publicly known to be stolen is harder to fence. A clean, quiet job directly protects your sale price.
Selling to Mr. Faber
Stolen works go to fence Mr. Faber, and the timing matters — the first Primary Target sold each week carries a bonus, and a painting fences best while it’s still that week’s featured piece, so sell fast rather than sitting on it. Alternatively, keep the painting and display it in your Art Studio. As for exact values: still unconfirmed. We’d rather show you nothing than a made-up number — tested figures land in the planner once the community settles them.
Should you buy in?
If you already own a mansion, the Art Studio is an easy yes — new content, weekly rotation, solo-friendly. If you’re starting from zero, wait for payout data before dropping $16M; see how it slots into the full heist rankings once numbers are in. Either way, scope thoroughly, prep everything, and stay quiet — that part pays off no matter what the figures turn out to be.