Everything You Need To Start The Kortz Center Heist In GTA Online

GTA Online's summer update, The Kortz Center Heist, is now live, and it brings the game's first brand-new heist since Cayo Perico back in 2020. Along with new vehicles and gameplay changes, the update introduces a purchasable Art Studio that players will need before they can even think about hitting the museum.

Step 1: Buy a Mansion

Before anything else, you'll need to own one of the three Prix Luxury mansions, available through the in-game Prix Luxury Real Estate website. Pricing varies depending on the property, with the Richman Villa sitting at the top end of the scale largely due to its proximity to the Kortz Center itself.

Step 2: Add the Art Studio

Once you own a mansion, the Art Studio becomes available as an upgrade through the same in-game website, priced at $4,700,000. Players who reached Tier 3: Elitist status in the Fine Art Collector program before the update dropped get a $1,000,000 discount, and GTA+ members can stack an additional $1,000,000 off on top of that, bringing the cost down considerably for anyone who prepped ahead of time.

The Art Studio itself is a new room tucked into your mansion, typically near the vault, and it'll be marked with an "H" icon once installed.

Step 3: Meet Raf and Mr. Faber

Head to your mansion and the Art Studio option will now appear in your property's menu. Walking in triggers a cutscene introducing Mr. Faber and his fixer, Raf De Angelis, who lay out the job: infiltrating the Kortz Center to steal a list of high-value exhibits.

You don't actually need to physically revisit the Art Studio every time, though. Once the heist is unlocked, you can call Raf directly from your phone to pull up the full list of prep missions.

Step 4: Register as a Boss

To access the planning board and start assigning prep work, you'll need to be registered as either a CEO or MC President. If you haven't already, open the Interaction Menu inside your mansion and select "Register as Boss."

Step 5: Work Through the Preps

The heist includes 6 mandatory prep missions and 5 optional ones. While preparing, a counterfeiter will move into your Art Studio to craft forgeries used to swap out the real artwork during the heist, and gear collected along the way gets stored there for building custom loadouts ahead of the Finale.

Players who logged in before the update went live were also rewarded with $500,000 in-game cash and a free Benefactor Turreted Limo.

With the Art Studio secured and Raf briefed, you're clear to start working through preps toward pulling off GTA Online's newest — and possibly last major — heist before GTA 6 arrives.

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